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concert schedule Blood, Sweat & Tears | Monsters in the Park | ATribute Concert | Music at the Millpond | Radiohead Transcribed | The "A" Team | Island of Innocence the "A" team: adès & adams Saturday, August 9
Featuring the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop; Thomas Adès: "but all shall be well"
Thomas Adès:Concerto
Conciso (West Coast Premiere)
Thomas Adès: Darknesse
Visible  featuring Christopher O'Riley, piano
John Adams: Guide to Strange Places (West Coast Premiere) The "A" Team: Adès & Adams. "Hot" is a funny little adjective, but sometimes the most succinct and descriptive way to go. On this side of the Atlantic, 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winner John Adams would likely be considered the "hottest" composer going; and on the other side of the Atlantic, Thomas Adès is quite simply smokin’. On Saturday night, August 9th, Marin brings the works of these two composers together in a concert that knocks one ball after another out of the park. Pianist Christopher O’Riley joins the excitement to perform three of the evening’s offerings. "…but all shall be well," is the title of Adès first large scale orchestral score, which takes its inspiration from the last of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Darknesse Visible is a piano solo work featuring O’Riley, and Concerto Conciso is a two movement work scored for solo piano and an ensemble of ten players. John Adams’ Eros Piano is about glistening sound surfaces and slowly evolving panels of light and darkness. It received it’s U.S. Premiere at the Cabrillo Festival in 1991 and returns with O’Riley on the keyboards. The work was written as an almost immediate response to Adams‚ hearing Toru Takemitsu’s Riverrun, and "…begins exactly where Riverrun ends, with the falling motive of perfect fifths." For the final, crowning work of the evening, Marin will conduct the West Coast Premiere of Adams’ Guide to Strange Places. "This twenty-five minute roller coaster ride can perhaps best be described as Adams’ Sacré —— such overwhelming drive is usually only encountered in Stravinsky’s music," said Trouw of Amsterdam, where it received its World Premiere in October 2002. It went on to receive its U.S. Premiere at the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, and will be choreographed by Peter Martins for the New York City Ballet this spring as part of Lincoln Centers’ multimedia festival "John Adams: An American Master." The title was taken from a French guide book by the same name which Adams stumbled upon during a stay in Provence. It conjured up for Adams the "fantastic" pieces in symphonic literature such as Pictures at an Exhibition, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Firebird, or Symphonie Fantastique. Adams describes the work as a "descent into an imagined, unexpected underworld," and has created a musical terrain he had previously never traversed.
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