Composer John Adams will lead the Yale Philharmonia in a concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on Sunday, October 19. Adams will conduct his own music alongside works by Stravinsky and Beethoven.

The program opens with Stravinsky’s Orpheus, followed by Adams’s Beethoven-inspired piece Absolute Jest. A concerto for string quartet and orchestra, Absolute Jest also features the Brentano String Quartet in its debut year as Yale’s quartet-in-residence. Adams has described Absolute Jest as “the most extended experience in pure ‘invention’ that I’ve ever undertaken … a thrilling lesson in counterpoint, in thematic transformation and formal design.”

With Beethoven’s music intricately woven into Absolute Jest, Adams chose to pair his own work with a Beethoven piece: the Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major.

John Adams, the Philharmonia, and the Brentano will also perform the program at Yale University's Woolsey Hall in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, October 17. The following month, Adams will return to New York City to host a concert he has curated at SubCulture on November 17, featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic and music including the New York premiere of the piece Early to Rise composed by Nonesuch label mate Timo Andres (who earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale).

For additional details and tickets to any of these events, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Adams's opera The Death of Klinghoffer receives its Metropolitan Opera debut on Monday, October 20, led by David Robertson, and continues through November 15. For tickets, visit metopera.org.