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Elements and Energy with John Adams

Green Umbrella New Music Series

Tue / Jan 28, 2025 - 8:00PM

Program

    • LA Phil Etudes: Book 2, Part 1
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
    • Quantum Ptarmigan
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • Partita I
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • Dark with Excessive Bright
    • Intermission
    • LA Phil Etudes: Book 2, Part 2
    • LA Phil commission
    • with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
    • a study of some of the terrible ways I love to play the cello
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • Jocelyn Morlock in memoriam
    • world premiere
    • LA Phil commission
    • Limina

About this Performance

Creative Chair John Adams returns for the second installment of the LA Phil Etudes. The project invites a wide range of leading composers to create new solo etudes, each performed by an LA Phil musician, which showcases their distinct voices and the possibility of their chosen instrument. The theme of soloist spotlight continues with Donnacha Dennehy’s threshold-pushing piano concerto Limina and Missy Mazzoli’s bass concerto, Dark with Excessive Bright, which borrows its name from Milton’s Paradise Lost and slips between centuries with Mazzoli’s blend of new ideas and influences. Plus, Adams leads a world premiere by Noah Jenkins, whose music explores everything from drones to audio phenomena.

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