Pianist Geoffrey Douglas Madge and the Orkest de Volharding, conducted by Jussi Jaatinen, play my Sunken City three times this week. The entire program is:
Huib Emmer – Electric Shadows (2007)
John Luther Adams – For Jim (rising) (2007)
Philippe Bodin – Elastique (2007)
Kyle Gann – Sunken City (Concerto for Piano and Winds In Memoriam New Orleans) (2007)
John Coolidge Adams – The Chairman Dances (arranged by Anthony Fiumara)
This is the first concert I know of to include pieces by both John Adams’s. Three performances in The Netherlands:
October 30, 20.30
Kassa de Doelen
Schouwburgplein 50, RotterdamOctober 31, 20.15
Felix Meritis
Keizersgracht 324, 1016 EZ, Amsterdam
tel. +31(0)20 626 23 21November 4, 15.30
Concert en Gehoorzaal
Doopsgezinde Kerk, Lange Noordstraat 62
Middelburg
See you there.
Technically, the correct plural is “Johns Adams.”
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
Reports?
Recordings?
Your public awaits!
KG replies: Thanks, John, I’m waiting myself – for audio documentation, that is.
So how’d it go? We’re all dying for some audio clips.