Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Part I | 17:03 |
| 2 | Part II: The Anfortas Wound | 12:16 |
| 3 | Part III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie | 10:31 |
News & Reviews
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009
John Adams Reads from "Hallelujah Junction" on NPR's "Book Tour"
John Adams's memoir Hallelujah Junction was featured on 2008's final episode of NPR.org's Book Tour, which broadcast a reading from the book the composer gave in November. The show's host calls Adams "one of America's leading avant-garde composers, and as he proves in this compelling memoir, possibly one of the loveliest human beings you're likely to encounter between the covers of a book." She describes his compositions as "erudite, philosophical, but spun through with the play and polish of popular culture."
- Monday, January 5, 2009
Nonesuch Artists Continue to Draw Year-End Accolades
Since the last Nonesuch Journal entry of 2008, which laid out scores of year-end best-of lists featuring Nonesuch albums and artists, still more critical praise has come in placing this music among the year's best.
About this Album
Adams’s Nonesuch debut takes its title from Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmony Teachings. The New York Times has called Harmonielehre “a dazzling, whirling crystal ball of a piece in which Mr. Adams at once celebrates and parodies lush Romantic harmony.“
Credits
MUSICIANS
San Francisco Symphony
Edo de Waart, conductor
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded March 23, 1985, at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Engineer: John Newton
Art Direction and Design by Carin Goldberg
Cover photography by William Clift
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
