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Adams, John: Short Ride in a Fast Machine QMB 568

Setting: Concert Band
Genre: Band Music
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI6101687

Adams, John: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

from Two Fanfares for Orchestra

Arranged by Saucedo, Richard L.
Setting: Concert Band
Genre: Band Music
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI66173
Composed in 1986, this fast-paced and dynamic work took the symphonic world by storm. Available here in a playable setting for school ensembles, Richard Saucedo has transposed the key down a third from the original and skilfully adapted some of the more complicated rhythmic patterns…

Adams, John: Slonimsky's Earbox

Setting: Orchestra
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI9649
Modeled on Stravinsky's ''Le Chant du Rossignol,'' this 14-minute work for orchestra is an homage to the work and wit of Nicholas Slonimsky, the Russian eccentric literary genius who wrote The Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (1947), from which Adams drew scales…

Adams, John: Son of Chamber Symphony

Setting: Chamber Orchestra
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI9700
Composed in 2007. Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Stanford Lively Arts, and the San Francisco Ballet. Son of Chamber Symphony received its New York premiere performance on February 28, 2008 at Carnegie Hall. A choreographed version by Mark Morris, Joyride, also exists.

Adams, John: String Quartet

Setting: String Quartet
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI10672

Adams, John: The Chairman Dances

Setting: Orchestra
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item number: HL50480014
John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshootofthe composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'…
Price: $56.10

Adams, John: The Dharma at Big Sur

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI9625
Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist of the premier.

Adams, John: The Wound-Dresser HPS 1162

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BH6500042

Adams, John: The Wound-Dresser

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI9738

Adams, John: Two Fanfares for Orchestra

"Tromba Lontana" and "Short ride in a fast machine"

Setting: Orchestra
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BH6500015

Adams, John: Violin Concerto

Setting: Violin and orchestra
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI1000940

Adams, John: Violin Concerto

Setting: Violin and orchestra
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI9639
This concerto won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 1995, the most prestigious music prize in the world. In three movements, it is prime example of Adams as the most compelling contemporary master. The concerto was also choreographed as a ballet by the New York City…

Adams, Jonathan: A Song of Peace

Da Pacem Domine

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL08301888
Emerging from a unison pitch the a cappella voices channel through gorgeous suspensions and luxuriously lingering resolutions. This song of peace described in Latin text is immediately timeless and useful in church, high schools and college choirs.

Adams, Jonathan: All Men Dream

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL08301831
Commissioned by the Arkansas Choral Directors Association to celebrate its 40th anniversary, conductor and composer, Jonathan Adams, used a text from 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).This inspiring text is matched with Adams' stirring music. Perfect…

Adams, Jonathan: Ask And It Shall Be Given

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL00159340
It is the poetry of the King James version that places this sacred text into the concert program. That, and the exquisite setting that Jonathan Adams, a revered high school choral teacher, offers. Known for his a cappella writing and elongated cadence resolutions, Adams gives…

Adams, Jonathan: Everything Is Beautiful

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL00125004
High school choral director, Jonathan Adams, has composed a number of beautiful a cappella pieces. This setting of Ecclesiastes 3:11 contains those yummy suspensions and cadences that choirs yearn for. A great church anthem, this piece also fits the concert hall for high school…

Adams, Jonathan: Hodie Christus Natus Est

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL00159346
This fabulous Christmas piece rings with energy and joy. Ripe with antiphonal qualities, the piece opens with a brief fanfare and proceeds to celebrate the season. A wonderful holiday concert opener for high school, college or community choirs, or for a church anthem. Medium…

Adams, Jonathan: Holy Harmony

Andrea Ramsey Choral Series

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: G. Schirmer
Item number: HL50600447
This setting of an anonymous 15th century text mixes polyphony with homophonic writing, offering broad contrasts in dynamics and range/tessitura that are appropriate for high school and festival choirs. The text offers deep meaning that will draw your singers in and resonate…

Adams, Jonathan: I Believe in the Sun

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL08301775
The text was found on a basement wall in Cologne after WWII, and embodies the strength of optimism we grasp at times of despair. Dedicated to the Katrina victims, Jonathan Adams has created a moving musical setting. In closeharmonies he produces a melody that rises with the poem…

Adams, Jonathan: My Sun and Stars

Setting: Mixed Voices
Publisher: Pavane Publishing
Item number: HL08301810
Much of the poetry of Sara Teasdale has been set to music. Jonathan Adams' music fits well with her poetry: gentle dissonances that resolve eloquently with depth and satisfaction. As with much of her poetry, the reader ispleasantly surprised to discover at half way through the piece…
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