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| Afternoon On 3 | ...JOHN ADAMS (conductor)... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...Liszt (arr JOHN ADAMS): La lugubre gondola, S200... |
| Bbc Proms 2004 | ...JOHN ADAMS: Doctor Atomic - Easter Eve 1945 - UK Premiere; The Dharma at Big Sur - UK Premiere.... |
| Bbc Proms 2005 | ...Based on music composed for François Girard's award winning 1999 film, The Red Violin, John Corigliano's new concerto receives its UK premiere. Under their principal conductor, and winner of this year's Female Artist of the Year at the Classical Brit Awards. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra also performs JOHN ADAMS' popular foxtrot and excerpts from Prokofiev's passionate ballet score. Presented by Sarah Walker.... |
| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...Dreams and personal memories are in the air in an evening of music by JOHN ADAMS. An elegiac setting of the words of Walt Whitman, recalling his experience as a nurse in the Civil War, is paired with a shimmering tribute to the composer's own father.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...A late-night concert of 20th-century Americana featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Kristjan Jarvi. To mark tonight's opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing tonight, Jarvi launches the programme with Michael Torke's Javelin, written for the 1994 games, which is followed by JOHN ADAMS's evocation of Richard Nixon's visit to China in the 1970s.... |
| Bbc Proms Chamber Music 2005 | ...JOHN ADAMS: Road Movies... |
| Discovering Music | ...JOHN ADAMS - The Wound Dresser... |
| Hear And Now | ...Britten Sinfonia Tom Service talks to John Woolrich about curating the Britten Sinfonia's recent Contemporary Music Network tour. To celebrate John Zorn's 50th birthday, the concert features two of Zorn's contrasting works, Angelus Novus and For Your Eyes Only; the latter showing the huge influence that cartoon music has had on Zorn's output. Also on the bill are JOHN ADAMS' wry take on Schoenberg in his Chamber Symphony and John Woolrich's Music from a House of Crossed Desires, a compressed fantasy drawn from the music from his 1995 opera.... |
| Hysteria [drama] | ...By Terry Johnson. Why is Sigmund Freud concealing a naked woman in his closet? Why is he wearing a raincoat indoors and being pursued by Salvador Dali? Where are Dali's trousers? All things considered, is it any surprise that the father of psychoanalysis turns out to be the one most in need of it? Johnson's surreal comedy about the supposed meeting between Freud and Dali takes a hilarious and audacious trip into the unconsciousness of the man who discovered it. Starring Henry Goodman, Phoebe Nicholls, Tim Potter and David de Keyser. Director JOHN ADAMS.... |
| John Adams (b.1947) | |
| Minimalists, The | ...JOHN ADAMS... |
| Music Matters | ...Minimalist composer Terry Riley influenced people such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and JOHN ADAMS, as well as rock groups such as Soft Machine, The Who and Tangerine Dream with his seminal work 'In C'. He celebrates his 70th birthday this year and talks to Tom Service.... |
| Opera In Action | ...Ruth Mackenzie, general director of the Scottish Opera, introduces a selection of operatic highlights. `The Opera Director'. Excerpts from Bizet's `Carmen', Mozart's `The Magic Flute' and JOHN ADAMS's `Nixon in China'.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...JOHN ADAMS, the BBCSO's Artist in Association, conducts his modern classic Harmonium, a setting of words by John Donne and Emily Dickinson for large chorus and orchestra. And the young Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto plays the earlier and less well-known of Bartok's two violin concertos. Presented by Paul Guinery.... |
| Portrait Of John Adams, A | ...A Portrait Of JOHN ADAMS... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by the writer Annie Proulx, whose widely acclaimed books include the novels `The Shipping News' and `Accordian Crimes' and the short-story collection `Close Range'. Her musical choices include the Kronos Quartet playing a piece by JOHN ADAMS and accompanying the singer Don Walser, Gillian Welsh singing `Morphone', `Spiritual' by Charlie Haden and Pat Methany, and accordian music from Louisiana played by Austin Pitre.... |
| Proms Feature - A Short Ride From Rhythm To Melody | ...JOHN ADAMS At 50... |
| Shaker Loops | ...The Smith Quartet and friends perform the original septet version of JOHN ADAMS' Shaker Loops from 1978.... |
| Sounding The Century - Performance On 3 | ...American composer JOHN ADAMS visits Britain to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a blockbusting programme of his own music, as part of the Barbican Centre's `Inventing America' season. Highlights from Adams's second opera, `The Death of Klinghoffer' are complemented by a new piano concerto written for Emanuel Ax. The work is inspired by the sound of music on 1920s piano rolls. Given earlier this month in the Barbican, London. Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Jeremy White (bass), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/JOHN ADAMS. JOHN ADAMS: The Death of Klinghoffer (excerpts); Century Rolls (first UK performance).... |
| Sounds American | ...Geoffrey Smith explores what it is about American classical music that makes it sound American. With contributions from musicologists Dave Nicholls and Mischa Donat, conductor Leonard Slatkin and composers Steve Reich, Steve Montague and JOHN ADAMS, as well as archive interviews with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson.... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...JOHN ADAMS - China Gates... |
| Summer Selection | ...The actress Jenny Agutter shares her favourite music - including seventies folk from The Chieftains and Jethro Tull, a Vivaldi mandolin concerto, piano music by JOHN ADAMS and cello music by Robert Schuman - and looks ahead to some of this week's Proms. Major works include: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by Bernard Haitink Copland: Suite, Appalachian Spring New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Leonard Bernstein Clara Schumann: Konzertsatz in F minor Diane Ambache (piano and director) Ambache Chamber Orchestra Satie: Gymnopedies Pascal Roge (piano) Ravel: Ballet, Mother Goose Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Pierre Boulez Bach: Concerto for two violins in D minor Arthur Grumiaux, Hermann Krebbers (violins) Les Soloistes Romands Conducted by Arpad Gerecz.... |
| Truck Stop | ...JOHN ADAMS celebrates the truck stop's role in American culture, prompted by a truck stop called Hallelujah Junction, which became the name of an Adams piece for two pianos.... |
| Twenty Minutes - John Adams | |
| Up Against It | ...Joe Orton's unfinished screenplay, written for the Beatles in 1967 and adapted for radio by John Fletcher. Orton was found dead on the very day he was to meet director Richard Lester about the making of the film. In this first production of the play, 30 years on, Blur's Damon Albarn provides a musical link to the original Beatles casting. Also starring Leo McKern, Sylvia Syms, Prunella Scales, Douglas Hodge, Joe Fiennes, Louise Lombard and Jacinta Mulcahy. John Gielgud and Irish director Joe Dowling make cameo appearances. Director JOHN ADAMS ... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside talks to the poet James Fenton about his favourite songs and singers including music by Thomas Campion, Gretry, Tchaikovsky and JOHN ADAMS with performances by Christopher Maltman, Michael Chance, Hermann Prey and Cecilia Bartoli.... |