John Adams: Absolute Jest (2012)
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- John Adams (*1947): Absolute Jest, per quartetto d'archi e orchestra (2012).
St Lawrence String Quartet
San Francisco Symphony diretti da Michael Tilson Thomas.
Esecuzione Live.
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In a general sense I"m no fan of so-called modern music but Adams has introduced me to some really enjoyable music and I already am building a bit of a library of Adams, Harris, and yes, even Schoenberg!
Adams is the real deal. His music is interesting from any viewpoint. If a kaleidoscope had sound, Adams' music would look like what I see.
I don't know what I enjoy more - this music, or the people who go out of their way to seek it out and whine about it.
It's like John Adams was their noisy neighbor and kept them awake late at night by playing his symphonies or something.
Who seeks it out? You come across it, then you criticize it. You're projecting your own stuff.
@@muslit I sought it out
It is startling, bracing, and when all the forces combine to create that semi gallop it is exciting beyond measure. just shows what new melodies and rhymes can be created from dissonant and opposing sounds, how new harmonies can be created. it's like discovering a new type of music! discovering a brave new world! love that cover image
freakin awesome is right! way to go!
Always enjoyable reading the negative reviews (lol!) but I thought this was amazing. It's still very clearly John Adams but the source material lends a real madness to it.
Grandiose !
It is, of course, quite appropriate that a composition called "Absolute Jest" would quote scherzos. And I am thoroughly enjoying it. But what is truly funny to me is reading the negative comments, seeing how strident some people can get when they hear music not to their taste. Thanks for sharing this!
Mmm...excellent, thanks !
this is freaking awesome dude!
Sampling meets Beethoven and it's extremely good.
For those wondering, the quotation is from the scherzo section of Beethoven's 9th :)
And I think there are more quotations from the 7th symphony and ?late string quartet (at 6:50) and quartet 16 at 10:00 !!!
and the beautiful grosse fugue at 16:00
Not a parody of David Foster Wallace?
A musical cubist' s portrait of Beethoven. Picasso's jocund tone poem . Beauty be damned
Like an expensive restaurant, too many ideal pairings thrown into too few courses. A treat for Beethoven fans!
Simply thrilling
Que individuo más desconcertante, que gran genio desaprovechado
desaprovechado? conoces su trabajo? es reconocido mundialmente junto con Reich y Glass, como los maximos representantes del modernismo!
Pero es hermoso, ese enlace continental con los cerrados módulos del minimalismo da un aire de enlace mítico doble: como cimiente y como horizonte. Es el trayecto lo que lo muestra bello.
I came back and deleted a comment i made. The music grows on me.
Anything JA does in interesting, this maybe a bit too 'movimentato',
not minimal enough.
meantone tuning, yeah!
A vinyl disk of Beethoven's scherzos left out in the sun.
Ray Lanthier swimmigly
@@stevewynnearts bleeding edge
@Adel Hassouna those with warped musical taste
This would make a good drinking game.
Better than much of his work, I think. Or at least a welcome change from his accustomed methods.
Liebe mit Zug & Zugänglich einfacher........ Nicht vergessen Sat. jedes min. Beweglichkeit................Davon........
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
I prefer the original.
Why
Beethoven's 9th makes contemporary music seem "boring or like nails on a chalkboard".
Wie Elastisch Allu Brücken..................? Hoffentlich jedes Autofahrer ein Vorbei mit Wind & Stürmer Wellen............?.......
such original harmony. not.
Hmm… If this is a jest, then where is the humour?
Annoying.
God ! It gets worse and worse !
Puzzling? A desperate effort to evade from old classic parameters ? In any event, I´m not totally sure whether delivering this subject and composition idea to Bela Bartok, Hindemith or even Magnard would have made more sense...Interesting in any event bou "messy", rushing, rusghing to....where? Thank you.
Bogus
An Absolute Farce.
Quite possibly the worst piece of music ever written: a rusty washing machine being attacked by shrieking barn owls, a wrecked car bludgeoned repeatedly by sledge hammers, a never-ending sonic nightmare, a fraud and an affront to music itself.
It's almost as if you made that comment with the intention of having people view YOUR uploads and take the piss...
Actually this music rules.
Yeah, it's attempt to juxtapose lighthearted joyous adventuring and menacing discord feels forced and cliche. Like, "oooh, here's a lovely romp in a garden, BUT OOOOOHHH ! There's a big scary.....VAMPIRE ! WOOOOO !!!! CAN YOU HANDLE IT ?!?!?" Yeah we can handle it. And yeah, we've all heard Phillip Glass, and while * he * may have used repetition to good effect in a few of his pieces, here it just feels like he's trying to annoy his audience and pass that off as some kind of avant garde strategy.
There are only two possible responses to this piece in the known universe. (A) Hate. (B) Maturity; then hate.
It's interesting to note that someone in 1827 has written something in a similar vein after hearing the source material of this piece, Beethoven's 9th: "His [Beethoven's] great qualities are frequently alloyed by a morbid desire for novelty; by extravagance and by a disdain of rule... The effect which the writings of Beethoven have had on the art must, I fear, be considered injurious."
Absolutely awful.
If this is Adams' homage to Beethoven, I'd hate to hear his denunciation.
I didn't know he sucked this bad. I actually kinda liked his actual homage to Beethoven, the second movement of Grand Pianola, back when he still had a soul.
How can you say that? Crazy.
@@OnlyEdandTheAlmost lol