John Adams

On the Transmigration of Souls was written to commemorate the lives of those killed on the September 11 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.'My desire in writing this piece is to achieve in musical terms the same sort of feeling one gets upon entering one of those old majestic cathedrals in France or Italy... an immediate sense of something otherworldly. You feel you are in the presence of many souls generations upon generations of them and you sense their collected energy as if they were all congregated or clustered in that one spot.' - John AdamsVocal/Piano score for mixed choir (SATB) children's choir andPiano reduction.

Ce concerto a remporté le prix Grawemeyer pour la Composition de la musique en 1995, le plus prestigieux prix de la musique dans le monde. En trois mouvements, c'est le premier exemple d'Adams : le capitaine contemporain le plus convaincant. Le concerto a été également chorégraphié comme un ballet par le New York City Ballet. / Violon Et Orchestre

Score-This work 3 Amplified Women's Voices 2 Pianos Percussion Wind and Brass was premiered by the San Fransico Symphony in February 1982. Grand Pianola Music recalls the music of Charles Ives in its creative synthesis ofvarious musical styles. The listener is greeted with a wide spectrum of sonic allusions ranging from band marches to gospel tunes from Beethoven's sonatas to melodramatic movie-hall stylings. The result is a work that walks theline between sincerity and irony.

Road Movies by John Adams is a brilliantly imaginative piece which was first performed on October 23rd 1995 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts in Terrace Theatre by Robin Lorentz on Violin and Vicki Ray on Piano.