Adams Conducts
Tue / Feb 20, 2018 - 8:00PM
The LA Phil Creative Chair leads a provocative program, including intense work from Julius Eastman.
Program
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- Aura
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- Shasta (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
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- Evil Nigger
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- MARTIRANO
- L's G.A. (with projections by Ron Nameth)
Artists
- LA Phil New Music Group
- John Adams, conductor
- Dynasty Battles, piano
- Michelle Cann, piano
- Joanne Pearce Martin, piano
- Vicki Ray, piano
- Ron Athey, politico
- test person
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About this Performance
Our Creative Chair leads a provocative program including nearly lost post-minimalist music by Julius Eastman, the African-American composer who died homeless at 49. Salvatore Martirano’s best-known work – L’s G.A. (Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) for gas-masked politico, helium bomb, two-channel tape recorder, etc. – was widely performed in the ’60s and ’70s. Premieres from Young and McIntosh lead off.
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