Very Americana for sure! I love Charles Ives music and I think I like Adams a little more after listening to this lol. Lovely textures and very very conservative tonally.
Cette musique est enthousiasmante.... Richesse du discours mélodique, harmonies à couper le souffle, orchestration sans cesse renouvelée dans l’utilisation des timbres de l'orchestre. En onze mots comme en cent, une babylonienne architecture sonore érigée par d’humbles et impétueux compositeurs-interprètes
@@elijahstewart3231 Yeah! From the composers notes: “The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg. Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met, and it’s not unlikely that they would have become good friends. Both were businessmen by day and artists by night. I imagine them exchanging a wry comment in front of the town post office, or, rake in hand, lending each other some help after the first October frost.”
This piece shows you how hard it is to write music that presents a coherent drama and says things that are musically profound and memorable. This is a hard working piece that just misses the mark. John certainly wrote a lot of notes but they lack the magic that makes music great.
It is about Concord Massachusetts, where Carl Adams and Charles Ives both lived as businessmen and artists. They didn’t know each other but likely bumped into each other. And the piece is styled similarly to Ives.
This didn't engage me at all... This American minimalism has come to a dead end. Just mechanical and cold. But praises to the oboist, who managed those high notes!! First mov. is clearly built on The unanswered question, but just repeats itself. Second movem. sounds like Schönberg's five pieces (nr 3) or Messiaen's Turangalila, but without the interest of novelty or richness that those pieces has. Third reminds of Sibelius Lemminkäinen suite, but leads nowhere.
if it sounds like all these other composers, why is it minimalism? and if this "minimalism" obviously can sound like so much diverse things, why is it at a dead end? and how on earth do you think this piece is "just mechanical and cold"? are you deaf?
But did Charles Ives leave your father's questions unanswered?
Apparently Charles Ives said that the...
*WHO?*
I heard he liked to go to famous American park. But not when it was light out.
@@klop4228 Only when it was a calcium light night
They used to walk together in Central Park in the dark.
Okay, so who’s gonna write “My Father knew John Adams?” 😂 Great piece btw!
Father Adams knew my johnson
@@peterittzes new song w MIA called Keystamp -
Fiji God
Minutes ago I learned of this piece. I admired IVES and I’m blessed to hear this work.
The swagiest title I have ever came across
"My Father Knew Charles Ives" Chad father.
Chad by association
hello yagiz
@@elijahstewart3231 hi
@LeftRight Adams' father, actually he didn't really meet with Charles Ives.
@LeftRight no lol
imagine making a half hour piece just cuz your father knew a composer that you like
He didn't actually know him.
imagine making a half hour piece just cuz your father didn't actually know a composer that you like
So unsettling yet relaxing at the same time, great piece
A wonderful tribute to Ives! Thank you for posting.
Wow I had no idea this piece existed. The textures starting at @8:44 are sick
Very Americana for sure! I love Charles Ives music and I think I like Adams a little more after listening to this lol. Lovely textures and very very conservative tonally.
Cette musique est enthousiasmante.... Richesse du discours mélodique, harmonies à couper le souffle, orchestration sans cesse renouvelée dans l’utilisation des timbres de l'orchestre. En onze mots comme en cent, une babylonienne architecture sonore érigée par d’humbles et impétueux compositeurs-interprètes
agreed.
@@eottoe2001 🥇
This is wonderful piece. I truly enjoyed the journey especially from the lake to the mountain. I wanted more and felt sad when it ended.
Adams is such a prolific composer...
Man I love this.
23:38 amazing textures
23:30 - 24:52 OMG that build
Reminds me of a Charles Ives piece.
Grandios!
quite good...
so cool
Good for you
What the hell is the sound that sounds like a car horn at 18:50?? I can’t seem to figure it out by looking in the score
Weird flex but ok
@LeftRight yes it is
Funnily enough, Adams’s father didn’t actually know Charles Ives
lmao really?
@@elijahstewart3231 Yeah! From the composers notes: “The title, My Father Knew Charles Ives, may have been unconsicously suggested by that of a Morton Feldman of similarly challenged authenticity, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg. Carl Adams, my Massachusetts-born father, did not in fact know Charles Ives. But for a few years and only a little distance to the north, the two yankees might well have met, and it’s not unlikely that they would have become good friends. Both were businessmen by day and artists by night. I imagine them exchanging a wry comment in front of the town post office, or, rake in hand, lending each other some help after the first October frost.”
@@kristopherring7631 how lovely!
What a gorgeous piece! Thank you! It came up after I listened to my Clarinet Sonata!
lmao shameless self promotion
Thank !!!!!
この作品はアイヴズの主題が入っている作品と言う事で宜しいのでしょうか？
Sounds more like Nancarrow than Ives; who did his father know exactly?
definitely not, I thought Ives himself wrote this lol (up until I heard minimalism' patterns)
This is so fucking cool
Based president...
And my Dad knew Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Dankworth. Stop showing off.
This piece shows you how hard it is to write music that presents a coherent drama and says things that are musically profound and memorable. This is a hard working piece that just misses the mark. John certainly wrote a lot of notes but they lack the magic that makes music great.
go away
no....this does NOT miss the mark. I'm sorry you lack common sense. This is one of the best pieces written in recent years.
Okay, I get it, it sounds like something Ives could have written. But what's the point?
It is about Concord Massachusetts, where Carl Adams and Charles Ives both lived as businessmen and artists. They didn’t know each other but likely bumped into each other. And the piece is styled similarly to Ives.
@@johngalik6609 Thank you. Interesting.
Additionally, what's the point of any piece of art? What's the point in asking what's the point? What a silly fucking question.
The point is that Adams wrote a beautiful piece of music and decided to share it with you, but you shat all over it. Good job?.......
This didn't engage me at all... This American minimalism has come to a dead end. Just mechanical and cold. But praises to the oboist, who managed those high notes!!
First mov. is clearly built on The unanswered question, but just repeats itself. Second movem. sounds like Schönberg's five pieces (nr 3) or Messiaen's Turangalila, but without the interest of novelty or richness that those pieces has. Third reminds of Sibelius Lemminkäinen suite, but leads nowhere.
if it sounds like all these other composers, why is it minimalism? and if this "minimalism" obviously can sound like so much diverse things, why is it at a dead end? and how on earth do you think this piece is "just mechanical and cold"? are you deaf?
The Chairman Dances is hundred times more interesting and listenable. Why didn't John Adams continue making good music?
lol
Yeah, all composers do today is write bad music, eat hot chip and lie.
@@licheong Chairman Lmao ;)
The Chairman Dances is absolutely horrid compared to this piece.
@@peterittzesIn the same vein as "All opera directors do today is make modern stagings, eat hot chip and lie"
Boredom
Ok
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Pretty sure I would be bored with the music you listen to if you think this is boring.....
@@christiandubeau20 you are really smart
Beautiful, . would love to perforn dead-tone alto-saxophobe along to the clarinet III part. :)
Weird flex but ok