John Luther Adams' Among Red Mountains for solo Piano. 'I've always been intimidated by the Piano. As a performer I never played it very well. And as a composer I've never felt as if Icould make the instrument my won.On a recent trip to New York I heard the premiere performance of a lovely chamber work by Kyle Gann that embraces multiple tempos without sustaining them all at the same time.On the way home to Alaska I passed through Seattle. In the Seattle airport there's a large painting by Frank Stella It's one of his protractor works in which arcs of bright colours weave in and out of one another in a dizzyingcounterpoint of imaginary planes. Studying this painting (after hearing Gann's music) it occurred to me that I might be able to do something similar with the Piano. Virtually all my recent music has been composedof four five or six simultaneous tempo layers. If those ensemble and orchestral pieces are multi-dimensional sculptures then Among Red Mountains is more like a drawing. In this piece the challenge I set for myself was tosuggest five independent tempo planes within the limitations of two hands and what Vicki Ray calls 'the Big Black Box'. For three decades I've admired the Piano music of Peter Garland. At last I have a piece thatI hope is worthy of this dedication. The title Among Red Mountains is the translation of the Gwitch'in Athabascan name for a place in the Brooks Range north of Arctic Village.' - John LutherAdams

From Earth And The Great Weather-John Luther Adams' Three Drum Quartets from 'Earth And The Great Weather'. 'These three pieces are drawn from 'Earth And The Great Weather' anevening-length 'sonic geography' of the Arctic. Although purely 'abstract' in form it is my hope that they are in some small measure informed by the elemental power of natural forces in the Arctic and by the Inupiat Eskimodrumming and dancing. An optional tape of Inupiat language and natural sounds - thunder wind melting ice and calving glaciers - is available for use in performance with these quartets.' - John LutherAdams

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.

Baritone and Bass. Véritable référence parmi les recueils d'airs lyriques, voici des airs et des extraits de rôles tirés des opéras de John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss et beaucoup d'autres édités par Boosey and Hawkes. Ce volume propose des indications détaillées sur le déroulement des oeuvres, ainsi, le cas échéant, que des traductions (en anglais). L'édition pour baryton/ voix basse contient également neuf airs pour voix basse ou basse-baryton. / Niveau : Difficile / Recueil / Baryton ou Basse et Piano

This collection features piano works by prominent G. Schirmer composers including: Adams Barber Cowell Dello Joio Harbison Kabalevsky Khachaturian Prokofiev Shostakovich Tan Dun and others. Includes previouslyunpublished first editions by John Corigliano and Gabriela Lena Frank. Suitable for advanced high school and college-level pianists.

Soprano. Véritable référence parmi les recueils d'airs lyriques, voici des airs et des extraits de rôles tirés des opéras de John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss et beaucoup d'autres édités par Boosey and Hawkes. Ce volume propose des indications détaillées sur le déroulement des oeuvres, ainsi, le cas échéant, que des traductions (en anglais). L'édition pour soprano comporte notamment aussi 10 airs pour ' coloratura '. / Niveau : Difficile / Recueil / Soprano et Piano

Le livret de cet opéra a été adapté par John Adams et Peter Sellars à partir d'un conte indien du sud et de poèmes traduits par AKRamanujan. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orchestre

Score-John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshootof the composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'. It has become one of the composer's most popular works. In this piece from the third act of the Opera protocol and ceremony are forgotten as the audience is ledinto the apparent privacy of the characters' bedrooms to hear their intimate discussions. Each sings of his or her current personal concerns while at some level the couples (Dick and Pat Chairman and Madam Mao) connect with eachother on the emotional plane of nostalgia. The Nixons reminisce about their early pre-public married lives. The Maos look back to their youthful idealism and budding romance and foxtrot together to the wistful tune that formsthe basis of this composition. The chugging and coloristic flashes that begin the work give way to the dance theme proper in the strings. The work 'runs out' instead of ending in imitation of the hand-wound gramophone which hadaccompanied the dancing of the Maos in earlier happier times.First performed in January 1986 by the Milwaukee Smphony Orchestra the piece was commissioned by the National Endowment For The Arts.

Score-John Adams's creative output spans a wide range of media: works for orchestra opera video film and dance as well as electronic and instrumental music. Such pieces as Harmonium Harmonielehre Shaker Loops and The ChairmanDances are among the best known and most frequently performed of contemporary American music. In these works he has taken minimalism into a new and fresh terrain characterized by luminous sonorities and a powerful and dramaticapproach to form.

JOHN ADAMS Docteur Atomic Gerald Finley, Jessica Rivera, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink... Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Lawrence Renes Mise en scène : Peter Sellars

A Collection Of Essential Contemporary Works. Cette nouvelle importante série met à l' honneur les plus grands trésors de l'opéra américain, avec des airs célèbres et d'autres moins connus, le 'Rake's progress' de Stravinsky , Nixon in China de John Adam, Trouble in Tahiti de Bernstein et d'autres grands opéras de Dominic Argento, Ned Rorem et Carlisle Floyd. Avec accompagnement de CD. Pour les chanteurs professionnels et du niveau conservatoire supérieur, idéal pour les récitals et les auditions, et une source essentielle pour l'étude du répertoire d'opéra américain./ Recueil / Soprano et Piano