John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony is the composer's third concert work related to one of his large-scale operas, each having a unique relationship to the opera with which it is connected. Adams wrote The Chairman Dances around the time he was starting to work on Nixon in China; he describes the piece as a "warm-up" for the opera, and its music is closely related to that of the last scene. The Choruses from the Death of Klinghoffer are lifted unaltered from the opera, which since 9/11 has become so weighted with political ...
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John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony is the composer's third concert work related to one of his large-scale operas, each having a unique relationship to the opera with which it is connected. Adams wrote The Chairman Dances around the time he was starting to work on Nixon in China; he describes the piece as a "warm-up" for the opera, and its music is closely related to that of the last scene. The Choruses from the Death of Klinghoffer are lifted unaltered from the opera, which since 9/11 has become so weighted with political interpretations that it may be generations before it can be produced again. The music for the Doctor Atomic Symphony is derived from the opera, but it's reimagined and reworked in a way that's somewhat analogous to Prokofiev's use of music from The Fiery Angel as the basis for his Third Symphony. Adams' three-movement work is very little like a traditional symphony in form or feeling; it seems more like an orchestral meditation on thematic material from the opera. "Meditation" is...
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