John Adams
Road Movies

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Track Listing

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1	Road Movies: I. Relaxed Groove	4:47
2	Road Movies: II. Meditative	5:34
3	Road Movies: III. 40% Swing	4:53
4	Hallelujah Junction: Movement I	7:12
5	Hallelujah Junction: Movement II	2:38
6	Hallelujah Junction: Movement III	6:35
7	China Gates	4:28
8	American Berserk	6:00
9	Phrygian Gates: Part 1	14:23
10	Phrygian Gates: Part 2 (A System of Weights and Measures)	3:25
11	Phrygian Gates: Part 3	7:31

News & Reviews

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

New John Adams Documentary Film by Mark Kidel to Premiere on BBC4 TV

American Master: A Portrait of John Adams, a new film documentary about composer John Adams by Mark Kidel, will be broadcast for the first time on BBC4 TV on Friday, March 8, at 8 PM. The film, which offers a journey through the musical landscapes of the composer, will be repeated on BBC HD on March 15. The film will also be screened at the Barbican in London on March 16 as a prelude to the European premiere of Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary with the LA Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Watch an excerpt from the film here.
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Nonesuch to Record John Adams's "City Noir" with St. Louis Symphony

Nonesuch Records returns to Powell Hall in St. Louis this weekend to record the St. Louis Symphony's performances of John Adams's City Noir, February 15 and 16. John Adams will be in attendance for the recording. The Saturday evening performance will be broadcast live on St. Louis Public Radio, 90.7-KWMU, streaming at stlpublicradio.org. Nonesuch will be back in Powell Hall in October to record a new John Adams concerto written for saxophone. The concerto and City Noir will combined and released by Nonesuch Records at a future date.

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About this Album

The New York Times praised the “freewheeling violin and piano work” of Adams’s “traveling music.” The Oakland Tribune says the other piano-based pieces collected here “thrillingly exhibit the kinetic rhythmic excitement that always placed Adams above the so-called minimalists.”

Credits

MUSICIANS
Leila Josefowicz, violin (1-3)
John Novacek, piano (1-3)
Nicolas Hodges, piano (4-8)
Rolf Hind, piano (4-6, 9-11)

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman
Road Movies recorded September 2, 2002, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Engineered by Judith Sherman
Assistant Engineers: Hsi-Ling Chang
Editing assistant: Jeanne Velonis
All other pieces recorded July 28-29, 2003, at Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London
Engineered by Geoff Foster
Assistant Engineers: Chris Barrett
Mastered by Judith Sherman
Piano Rental: Mary Schwendeman (New York) / Steinway & Sons (London)
Leila Josefowicz appears courtesy of Philips Classics.

Design by John Gall
Cover photograph by Deborah O’Grady

Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz