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John Adams: Absolute Jest at City Halls

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Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in a month-long American Mavericks festival in March 2012 in San Francisco, Chicago, Ann Arbor and New York. The festival celebrates the visionary pioneers who created, and are still creating, a new American sound. In this video, composer John Adams talks about his latest work, Absolute Jest, a new commission for the San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season.   www.americanmavericks.org

John Adams on "Absolute Jest"

Comedy is a serious business. Beethoven knew that when his exuberant Second Symphony cheerfully booted the classical rule-book out of the window; and John Adams certainly knew it when he leafed through the scherzos of Beethoven’s late string quartets and transformed them into Absolute Jest: a one-off concerto for string quartet that takes Beethoven seriously enough to laugh along with him. As soloists, the Doric String Quartet definitely get it: and guest conductor Markus Stenz gets it too, pairing Beethoven and Adams with two riotously inventive French Baroque showpieces that prove that the best jokes never get old.

Prelude: 6.45pm in the Recital Room
Markus Stenz in conversation.

Post-Concert Coda (approximately 10 minutes after the main concert)
Why not stay on in the auditorium as the Doric String Quartet play Janáček’s String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1923).

The main concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, presented by Andrew McGregor.

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John Adams: Absolute Jest at City Halls by Rameau, Adams, Rebel, Jean-Féry, Beethoven, Du (2014/2014), Chef d'orchestre Markus Stenz, City Halls, Glasgow, Royaume-Uni

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