Tue, 17 Sep 2002
NY Philharmonic Commissions Memorial Piece By John Adams
John Adams, composer of such favorites as Short Ride in a Fast Machine, has been commissioned by the NY Philharmonic to create a piece memorializing 911 [ny times]. I last heard Adams work when the Pittsburgh Symphony did Short Ride about 6 years ago or so. Unfortunately, the symphony's web site seems to have no record of that performance, and I can't recall who was conducting but one of the interesting things that I discovered from the Times piece is that Lorin Maazel is now music director of the NY Philharmonic. Of course, he was music director here first! Yeah, Pittsburgh may suck, but it's symphony is still disproportionately phenomenal relative to the size of the city. I wish I could be in NY to hear this piece. I love Adams work.
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