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By: Chains Are My Reward • VAN Magazine

Chains Are My Reward • VAN Magazine — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:18:20 +0000

[…] John Adams and Alice Goodman – “The Death of Klinghoffer” (1991), Act II, Scene 3: Marilyn Klinghoffer: “You embraced them!”; Sheila Nadler (Contralto), Kent Nagano (Conductor), The Orchestra of the Opera De Lyon […]

By: Fleeting Visions • VAN Magazine

Fleeting Visions • VAN Magazine — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:09:56 +0000

[…] posted a process video of making that last design, accompanied by the opening fanfares of John Adams’s “Hallelujah Junction.” It’s background music, but it also hints at a linkage between two […]

By: The Prodigy Complex • VAN Magazine

The Prodigy Complex • VAN Magazine — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 13:11:27 +0000

[…] Music of Alma Deutscher.” Her Wikipedia entry has 11 chapters; Helmut Lachenmann’s has six, John Adams has nine, and Caroline Shaw has only a brief biography and list of works. The Telegraph headlines, […]

By: Recurring Themes • VAN Magazine

Recurring Themes • VAN Magazine — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:21:51 +0000

[…] Concerto No. 1” (1917), Alban Berg’s “Violin Concerto” (1935), and is currently preparing John Adams’s “Scheherazade No. 2” (2015), a work written specifically for her, for an upcoming […]

By: Bells • VAN Magazine

Bells • VAN Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:39:49 +0000

[…] expression of anti-belligerence. “We have 20th-century composers and public figures such as John Adams and Leonard Bernstein, but their positions on politics are far more focused and polemical. I […]

By: The Right Questions: An Interview with Mary Kouyoumdjian

The Right Questions: An Interview with Mary Kouyoumdjian — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:38:26 +0000

[…] composers who write pieces that are very direct responses to current events—I’m not thinking of John Adams specifically in this context, but I am reminded of the phrase “CNN opera.” How do you view the […]

By: Every Scarlatti Sonata, Ranked • VAN Magazine

Every Scarlatti Sonata, Ranked • VAN Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:35:47 +0000

[…] “Phrygian Gates” by John Adams, minus the […]

By: Into The Sky • VAN Magazine

Into The Sky • VAN Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:27:53 +0000

[…] talk a bit about your primary musical influences? The LA Philharmonic lists them as Thomas Adès, John Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan. What do you admire most about these musicians and […]

By: Silent Valley • VAN Magazine

Silent Valley • VAN Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:19:25 +0000

[…] new book of collected libretti, History Is Our Mother, she drifted seamlessly from her work with John Adams to reflecting on John Milton, and connecting them with her childhood memories of Passover Seders. I […]

By: Two Sides Of A Concert, Part II • VAN Magazine

Two Sides Of A Concert, Part II • VAN Magazine — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:16:42 +0000

[…] new John Adams opera “Girls of the Golden West” depicts the Gold Rush, an iconic moment in California history […]