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The Chairman Dances is a 1985 composition by John Adams, subtitled Foxtrot for Orchestra and lasting about 13 minutes. A commission from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, it has several dance-like tunes and has been described by Adams as an "outtake" from Act III of the opera he was working on at the time, Nixon in China.
22 mar 2021 · John Adams - The Chairman Dances (1985) Cmaj7. 49.7K subscribers. Subscribed. 1.7K. 72K views 3 years ago. Composer: John Coolidge Adams (February 15, 1947 – ) Orchestra: City of...
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JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances - Foxtrott for Orchestra Alan Gilbert, conductor NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Concert recording, December, 31st, 2021, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Website:...
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1 lug 2021 · The Chairman Dances by American composer John Adams is a mesmerising display of programmatic mastery in the post-minimalist movement. Written in 1985, the piece is essentially a by-product of his very famous opera Nixon in China which depicts American President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972.
Composed: 1985. Length: c. 12 minutes. Orchestration: 2 flutes (both = piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (2nd = bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bell tree, castanets, claves, crotales, cymbals [crash, hi-hat, suspended, suspended sizzle], pedal bass drum, snare drum, glockenspiel, sandpaper ...
John Adams on The Chairman Dances. The Chairman Dances was an “out-take” of Act III of Nixon in China. Neither an “excerpt” nor a “fantasy on themes from,” it was in fact a kind of warmup for embraking on the creation of the full opera.
