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Harmonium

존 아담스 Harmonium

John Coolidge Adams (February 15, 1947- )

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1. Harmonium 
   Composer   John Adams (1947 - )
   Conductor   Edo De Waart
   Genre   20th Century Period
   Date Written   1980
   Ensemble   San Francisco Symphony Chorus
   Period   20th Century
   Language   English
   Country   USA
   Recording   Studio
   Venue   Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
   Recording Date   01/1984

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Harmonium (John Adams)

This article is on the orchestral work. For information on other kinds of harmonia, see harmonium (disambiguation).
Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra by the American composer John Adams, completed in 1981. The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson. It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period. The San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with conductor Edo de Waart, gave the premiere of the work, and subsequently recorded it.

Harmonium (1980) - Here's a great introduction to Adams' outlook and approach. It begins, significantly, with the layering of a chord, out of which a beat arises and expands to a massive climax, as if to proclaim a modern rebirth of music (and the foundation of Adams' own creativity) from the rudiments of the past. It's imbued throughout with the lush sound of late-Romantic choral works (especially Vaughn Williams' Sea Symphony) and the broad architectural sweep of Sibelius. The work itself is a setting of three poems - the lustful temptations of John Dunne's “Negative Love” are presented in tides of constant, propulsive motion; a sustained interlude of Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” shimmers in repressed mystery and exquisite delicacy; and then Dickinson's “Wild Nights” emerges out of those intensely private mists - splashy, powerful and braying, ultimately exhausting itself and subsiding into a soft lulling pulse to reflect the poem's end afloat in the sea. The entire work is a striking synthesis of the traditional and the new, a confident blend of materials that sound at once original yet familiar, challenging yet comforting. Harmonium neatly sums up Adams' aesthetic penchant and the reason for his broad appeal.

The three movements of Harmonium are titled:

1. Negative Love (poem by Donne)
2. Because I could not stop for Death (poem by Dickinson)
3. Wild Nights (poem by Dickinson)

Recordings
Nonesuch: San Francisco Symphony Chorus; San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor
Telarc: Atlanta Symphony Chorus; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor
Nonesuch 79549: San Francisco Symphony Chorus; San Francisco Symphony; John Adams, conductor

     

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