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Adams: The Chairman Dances; Grand Pianola Music; Fearful Symmetries. John Adams. AllMusic Rating. User Rating (0) Your Rating. STREAM OR BUY: Release Date. 1999. Duration. 01:11:39. Genre. Classical. Styles. Orchestral. Discography Timeline. See Full Discography. Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances; Gnarly Buttons (1998)
Grand Pianola Music is a minimalist composition by the American composer John Adams written in 1981. It was premiered on February 26, 1982, by the San Francisco Symphony in the Japan Center in San Francisco as part of a series called "New and Unusual Music".
The Chairman Dances is a 1985 composition by John Adams, subtitled Foxtrot for Orchestra and lasting about 13 minutes. A commission from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, it has several dance-like tunes and has been described by Adams as an "outtake" from Act III of the opera he was working on at the time, Nixon in China.
Instrumental works by Adams include the Harmonium (1980), Shaker Loops (1978/83), Grand Pianola Music (1982), The Chairman Dances (1985), the fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), Fearful Symmetries (1988), Chamber Symphony (1992), Violin Concerto (1993), Gnarly Buttons (1996), Century Rolls (1997), and Naive and Sentimental Music (1998).
Chairman Dances, The. Chamber Symphony. Christian Zeal and Activity. Common Tunes in Simple Time. Death of Klinghoffer, The. El Dorado. Eros Piano. Fearful Symmetries. Five Songs by Charles Ives. Gnarly Buttons. Grand Pianola Music. Harmonielehre. Harmonium. Hoodoo Zephyr. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky.
26 de sept. de 2022 · John Adams (né en 1947) : Christian Zeal and Activity, China Gates, Phrygian Gates, Shaker Loops, Common Tones in Simple Time, Harmonium, Grand Pianola Music, Harmonielehre, Tromba Lontana, Short Ride in the Fast Machine, The Chairman Dances, Nixon in China, Fearful Symmetries, The Wound-Dresser, Eros Piano, Five Songs, Berceuse ...
1 de jul. de 2022 · 2018. CD — Album, Reissue, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2022 CD release of "Collected Works" on Discogs.
