John Adams - Lollapalooza (1995)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra - Carlos Kalmar (cond.) Recorded live in concert on XXVII.IV.2012 at the Teatro Monumental, Madrid.
John Adams talks about his work:
Lollapalooza was written as a fortieth birthday present for Simon Rattle who was been a friend and collaborator for many years. The term "lollapalooza" has an uncertain etymology, and just that vagueness may account for its popularity as an archetypical American word. It suggests something large, outlandish, oversized, not unduly refined. H.L. Mencken suggests it may have originally meant a knockout punch in a boxing match. I was attracted to it because of its internal rhythm: da-da-da-DAAH-da. Hence, in my piece, the word is spelled out in the trombones and tubas, C-C-C-Eb-C (emphasis on the Eb) as a kind of ideé fixe. The "lollapalooza" motive is only one of a profusion of other motives, all appearing and evolving in a repetitive chain of events that moves this dancing behemoth along until it ends in a final shout by the horns and trombones and a terminal thwack on timpani and bass drum.
Ghost of Kyiv sent me here
Yeah me too
Chike it up
Thanks sam!
Sammy Hydecker!
Goldstriker.
This is easily the best performance of this piece I've heard
Very underrated orchestra, this performance of this great piece shows it.
John Adam's music such as this piece and his Violin Concerto demonstrate that there is still plenty of life in symphonic music.
Where's the ice cream in this joint?
I remember playing this a few years back in a wind ensemble arrangement on lead trombone. Hard as shit counting all those rhythms!
Fabulous composer, i had the great chance to premiere his piano concerto Century Rolls in France in 2014 with the National Orchestra de Lorraine, amazing pieces!
The best rendition of Lollapalooza on UA-cam!
My favourite piece of John Adams. Pure energy discharge. Never get tired of listening to it. Absolutely superb rendition
Exceptional composer, surely a genius, true to himself without ever being locked into a system, he seems inexhaustibly inventive. I take the risk of being unfair to many musicians, but I place him, along with Leonard Bernstein, Steve Reich, Roy Harris and William Schuman, as one of the greatest American symphonists of the second half of the 20th century.
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Exceptionnel compositeur, un génie sûrement, fidèle à lui-même sans s'être jamais enfermé dans un système, il semble d'une inventivité inépuisable. Je prend le risque d'être injuste avec beaucou de musiciens, mais je le place, avec Leonard Bernstein, Steve Reich, Roy Harris et William Schuman comme un des plus grands symphonistes américains de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle.
THE greatest !
Great Adams!!!👌👌👌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sem dúvidas influenciado pelo ballet "Rodeio" de Aaron Copland.
sad that they don't play this at Lollapalooza 😔
Brilliant 🤩
great piece great orchestra in my city
I hope all have read Adams's description of this piece, and of how Lol-la-pa-loo-za = da-da-da-DAAH-da (trombones and tubas). 😆
SPLOOIE!
CAVIES FTW
This guy knows what's up
ayo sam
I really like this and that surprises me because the most modern i get is Stravinsky, Mahler, and Shostakovitch.
This kind of music you must hear several time, and each time you appreciate more the music. CITY NOIR is better for me, more symphonic.
Adams is not particularly extreme.
He's compared himself with Brahms, in that he works within the tradition and incorporates the present into it - he's summing things up, not being a revolutionary. In his case, his big contribution is incorporating Minimalism as a part of the symphonic tradition.
Spoonful...howlinwolf..Thanks John...Berserkley!!
It's funky and I love it ❤ 🎹 🎼 🌏 🇪🇦👍🌈 😎 🥁 ✅️ 🇺🇸 🥰
Conducted by Trotsky.
Rob James He's about to split the orchestra to pursue the global spread of conducting
Rob James from each according to his ability
Hammer!!
Nice stuff. Comin from Aug, 17 2k19
thank you my black queen
funky
fonky chonky
So there’s no woodblock to keep everyone in time?
I discover J.ADAMS 2 years ago only, before I was listening to Steve Reich but Adams is really more symphonic composer.
Sam H.
Samuel Hazo? :D
Sam hyde?
Really can't like it.
PLZ, Can anyone upload the world premiere of this work, under its dedicatee Sir Simon Rattle and The Bermingham SO, in 1995?
Quintessentially American; angular, Whittmanesque in its hypnotic self-assuredness, unabashedly bold, quirky, funky; its angularity reminds me (although I do not insist on this analogy) of John Alden Carpenter's "Skyscrapers" (see ua-cam.com/video/mWrVZj5uP84/v-deo.html).
Rádio Metropolis
I feel like a lot of composers *could* do work like this, but choose not to because it's perceived as annoying by so many members of the audience. But I fully expect to be savaged for saying so.
It’s propaganda, it’s propaganda
Adams is without doubt a great composer. But this piece ain't so hot. Sorry.
Down with sheet music in front of "musicians"! Learn the songs! Feel it!
Why? What purpose does that have? So they can forget where to come in because of the heavy syncopation?
+Rob Bond When you learn the song. You do not forget when to come in.
+William Thomas Brown what purpose does it have? What justifies not feeling music when you have it in front of you? Memorisation is merely for show. It serves no purpose if professional musicians are already experts at feeling and interpreting music. Getting rid of music won't make anyone feel more emotion than having music. Also, there aren't any lyrics in here, so it's a "piece" not a "song".
+William Thomas Brown I think you are assuming these musicians have the time to memorize this piece, but in reality, they are probably a part of a paid orchestra that changes repertoire every week. Memorizing music is really only meant for soloists, marching bands, and rock bands.
Spoken like a self-taught jam guitarist who couldn't read music if it was put in front of them in the first place.