Anam musicians and faculty, conducted by Ardent Champion of Contemporary Composers, perform two landmarks in the recent history of North American music.
The Chamber Symphony is one of Adams’ most joyous, playful, transparent works, inspired in equal parts by Schoenberg and Carl Stalling, music director during the golden years of the Warner Bros. cartoons.
Steve Reich’s Tehillim is like a giant ‘Hallelujah’, a pulsating song of praise, drawing on Biblical texts.
PETER DE JAGER Overgrown Machine World Premiere, commissioned by ANAM
JOHN ADAMS Chamber Symphony. STEVE REICH Tehillim. Fabian Russell conductor.