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

Monday, January 30, 2012

Carnegie Hall Announces 2012–2013 Season, Featuring Performances, Works by Several Nonesuch Artists

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2012–13 season, and featured among the performers taking the esteemed hall's stages are a number of artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal, including Kronos Quartet, Richard Goode, Dawn Upshaw, and Alarm Will Sound, as well as world and New York premiere performances of works by Steve Reich, Timothy Andres, and Donnacha Dennehy. In addition, John Adams will lead a Professional Training Workshop for emerging talents through Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

John Adams's "Nixon in China" Met Opera Premiere, Conducted by Adams, Screens Free in NYC's Lincoln Center Plaza

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams's Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by director Peter Sellars in their Met debuts, will be given a free screening in Lincoln Center Plaza in New York City tonight at 7:45 PM as part of the Met's third-annual free Summer HD Festival. Seating for the Met's Summer HD Festival is on a first-come, first-served basis and no tickets are required; more than 3,000 seats will be available.

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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