Chamber Symphony is a 1992 composition for a 15-member chamber orchestra by American composer John Adams , inspired by Arnold Schoenberg 's Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 . It is a three-movement work that takes about 23 minutes to perform.
9-1013: Chamber Symphony may refer to: Compositions [ edit ] Chamber Symphony (Adams) Chamber Symphony (Enescu) Chamber Symphony (Popov) Chamber Symphony (Shostakovich) Chamber Symphony No. 1 (Schoenberg) Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Schoenberg) Chamber Symphony (Franz Schreker) Little Symphony No. 1 (Milhaud) Little Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud) Little Symphony No. 3 (Milhaud) Little Symphony No. 4 (Milhaud) Little Symphony No. 5 (Milhaud) Little Symphony No. 6 (Milhaud) Chamber Symphony (Zwilich) Orchestras [ edit ] Aspen Chamber Symphony California Chamber Symphony Cleveland Chamber Symphony Dallas Chamber Symphony New York Chamber Symphony Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Washington Chamber Symphony See also [ edit ] Little Symphony (disambiguation) Sinfonietta (symphony) Symphony (Webern) Topics referred to by
18-430: A children's piece, and my intentions were to sample the voices of children and work them into a fabric of acoustic and electronic instruments. But before I began that project I had another one of those strange interludes that often lead to a new piece. This one involved a brief moment of what Melville called "the shock of recognition": I was sitting in my studio, studying the score to Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony , and as I
27-565: A diverse array of disciplines including classical forms, microsound , noise , improvised music and field recording. Adams has received commissions from New World Symphony , San Francisco Symphony , Carnegie Hall , and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated with performers such as Emanuel Ax , Sarah Cahill , Karen Gomyo , Jennifer Koh , Anthony Marwood , Joyce Yang and conductors such as David Robertson , Esa-Pekka Salonen , and Michael Tilson Thomas . He
36-794: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chamber Symphony (Adams) It was commissioned by the Gerbode Foundation of San Francisco for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players but premiered by the Schönberg Ensemble in The Hague , Netherlands , on 17 January 1993. The commissioners gave the American premiere on 12 April 1993. The composer describes his inspiration as follows: I originally set out to write
45-618: Is written for: Samuel Adams (composer) Samuel Adams (born December 30, 1985) is an American composer . He was born in San Francisco, California . He is a recipient of a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship . Adams grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he performed double bass and studied composition and electroacoustics at Stanford University ; he later studied with Martin Bresnick . His music draws on his experiences in
54-400: The inexorable click of the trap set." Adams thought the first movement so difficult that he initially entitled it "Discipliner et Punir". This may also have been a reference to Michel Foucault 's 1975 book Discipline and Punish . As finally published, however, the movements are: The instrumentation is similar to that of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1. Specifically, Chamber Symphony
63-455: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chamber Symphony . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chamber_Symphony&oldid=1219926746 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Chamber symphonies Hidden categories: Short description
72-466: Was doing so I became aware that my seven year old son Sam was in the adjacent room watching cartoons (good cartoons, old ones from the '50s). The hyperactive, insistently aggressive and acrobatic scores for the cartoons mixed in my head with the Schoenberg music, itself hyperactive, acrobatic and not a little aggressive, and I realized suddenly how much these two traditions had in common. Chamber Symphony
81-807: Was first recorded with the London Sinfonietta , conducted by the composer, in 1994, followed by the Ensemble Moderne in 1997, the Absolute Ensemble in 1999, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier in 2000. More recently, the Aurora Orchestra recorded the piece on Road Trip , its album of American music. The composer describes the piece as "shockingly difficult to play ... [since] instruments are asked to negotiate unreasonably difficult passages and alarmingly fast tempi, often to
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