Splitting Adams, by Alarm Will Sound & Meet the Composer

Splitting Adams

by Alarm Will Sound & Meet the Composer

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Murphy Adams "every time I play that duet, I can smell in and out burger" - the podcast tracks are awesome - they're really insightful and fun. Son of Chamber Symphony is amazing. Favorite track: Son of Chamber Symphony I..

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1.	On Chamber Symphony 17:19
2.	Chamber Symphony I. Mongrel Airs 07:11
3.	Chamber Symphony II. Aria with Walking Bass 08:22
4.	Chamber Symphony III. Roadrunner 06:03
5.	On Son of Chamber Symphony 15:46
6.	Son of Chamber Symphony I. 08:00
7.	Son of Chamber Symphony II. 07:12
8.	Son of Chamber Symphony III. 06:30	info

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Conceived and realized in partnership with Q2 Music’s Peabody award-winning podcast Meet the Composer, Splitting Adams is Alarm Will Sound’s tribute to American composer John Adams, and in particular to his works Chamber Symphony (1992) and Son of Chamber Symphony (2007).

Presented with commentary tracks from MTC’s host Nadia Sirota, Alarm Will Sound’s artistic director Alan Pierson, and the composer himself, the podcast-plus-performance conveys a rare sense of interaction for the listener; not only does the music, rendered in all its lush detail by the 17 musicians in AWS, capture and connect the long trajectory between the two works, but the commentary also shines a revealing light on the story behind the music.

Meet the Composer with host Nadia Sirota takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling and breathtakingly beautiful music today. At the convergence of interview, music and sound design, Meet the Composer aims to show the listener who the composer is as a person, as a thinker and as an artist.

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released April 21, 2017

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