John Adams - Shaker Loops - JACK Quartet + Friends

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7 жыл бұрын

This is a live recording from the performance of the JACK Quartet organized by the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program and the Center for New Music.
0:16 Part I Shaking and Trembling
09:06 Part II Hymning Slews
15:18 Part III Loops & Verses
23:18 Part IV A Final Shaking
Austin Wulliman, violin
Christopher Otto, violin
Ari Streisfeld, violin
John Pickford, viola
Kevin McFarland, cello
Jay Campbell, cello
Volkan Orhon, double bass

Пікірлер: 116

@Walker-ld3dn 4 жыл бұрын

This is SO fabulous. Why isn't Adams more popular with the public? I suppose people said this about Mozart, Berg, Stravinsky, etc. in their times as well. Lovely. Wonderful.

@klausbaden 3 жыл бұрын

He is one of the most famous composers in the whole world. That’s not bad!

@ProfessorPille 2 жыл бұрын

This piece came from a wonderful time in 20th Century music. A group of composers were creating new, fresh, and largely uplifting music. I'm glad I lived through that era.

@MrInterestingthings 7 жыл бұрын

NO MATTER how many times we hear this it's always memorable , full of SURPRISES and a great experience ! Each of the really famous earlier minimalists is really a world of their own .

@muslit 2 жыл бұрын

To each his own. It's a big bore to me.

@danielleizorovici5402 Ай бұрын

comme souvent, un final paroxystique et hypnotique. grandiose !

@rosecpiotr8204 Жыл бұрын

Ethereal and well tempered. I can't stop listening.

@frkalleidoscope4915 Жыл бұрын

I just learned a new word: Ethereal. Thx. It fits perfertly this minimalistic Quartet + good friends.

@GlenTindal Жыл бұрын

This is a masterpiece. One of my favorites of John Adams.

@GailMartin Жыл бұрын

Heavenly! Galactic!

@scruffycritter 6 жыл бұрын

So uniquely beautiful and so well performed!

@conraddean6510 4 жыл бұрын

I watched the Liegeti quartet in Sheffield this year and they mentioned this group. I did not expect to hear this! Truly fantastic

@VolkanBass 9 ай бұрын

Thank you @conraddean6510

@GailMartin Жыл бұрын

Fabulous!

@CalvinSMoore 9 ай бұрын

Just amazing. I've loved this piece for years, this is my first listen to your performance. It's like black and white, this is the best interpretation and in my case recording, I've ever heard. Phenomenal, as usual, what's left to say? Great work.

@VolkanBass 9 ай бұрын

Thank you @CalvinSMoore!

@milkmanswife93696 4 жыл бұрын

the accelerandos. my god. what a composition and what a performance.

@olena_chuba 4 жыл бұрын

This music rubbed a hole in my brain.

@solowinterwolf 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite lullaby . . .

@HenJack-vl5cb 6 жыл бұрын

So good!!!

@robhaskins 3 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh, I just found this. I will listen tomorrow and comment. :)

@martindahlstrom-heuser5923 5 жыл бұрын

I find the passage starting at 15:23 extremely touching.

@TimoVee 6 жыл бұрын

Superb!

@Specialtrai Жыл бұрын

Una obra maestra del gran John Adams. Una interpretación excelente, con molto sentimento...

@VolkanBass 9 ай бұрын

¡Gracias! @Specialtrai

@Bogdan0173 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding !

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Da...Ce dimineata frumoasa...

@rhythmfield 4 жыл бұрын

Superb, heartfelt, just terrific - fine job on the bass, too, Volkan.

@GailMartin Жыл бұрын

A fabulous double bassist!

@VolkanBass 9 ай бұрын

Thank you @rhythmfield

@VolkanBass 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! @@GailMartin

@mysticmouse7261 3 жыл бұрын

Music minimalist and immortal

@annetteheintzenberg5623 3 жыл бұрын

COOL!!!!!

@teresamadrid1520 3 жыл бұрын

Genial!!!!

@kuang-licheng402 6 жыл бұрын

nice

@frkalleidoscope4915 Жыл бұрын

very Like

@timothyw7742 5 жыл бұрын

7:05 reminds me of an old swing set creaking

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

What a poetic soul...You took me there, too, in this way...

@anvilgames2421 4 жыл бұрын

5:00

@user-gi7rf5py1d 5 жыл бұрын

New age genre?

@cobblestonegenerator 4 жыл бұрын

Its minimalism and extremely modern. The composer is still alive today.

@louthewatcher 7 жыл бұрын

wouldn't it technically be a septet?

@noahgoulet5409 7 жыл бұрын

The JACK quartet is its own ensemble. This video shows the piece being performed by the JACK quartet along with other musicians.

@johnflood-paddock1291 6 жыл бұрын

louthewatcher says quartet + 3

@MissEighties 6 жыл бұрын

RIGHT?? thank you hahaha

@laliquevonswarowski 5 жыл бұрын

String quartet --> Vilin, Viola, Cello, Bass

@eddiegalon3714 5 жыл бұрын

obviously not technically

@guscairns1 6 жыл бұрын

When they really get going at about 20:00 it makes me think about how close religious and sexual ecstasy are to each other...

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

I bow to you, maestro...Yes?...

@zKatari 5 жыл бұрын

how is it a quartet if there is 7

@erikavega7652 5 жыл бұрын

because: JACK Quartet + Friends

@zKatari 5 жыл бұрын

Erika Vega rightttt my bad lol

@wandtpag 6 жыл бұрын

Civ IV brought me here

@jeffzhang806 6 жыл бұрын

wow, same!

@DangLao 6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean CIV5? heh heh :D

@user-gi7rf5py1d 5 жыл бұрын

I found this song at dealing stealth bomber

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-gi7rf5py1d that's interesting...and opaque...You care to elaborate? Make us all laugh !

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Civ IV?

@puffin51 6 жыл бұрын

People say they enjoy this. Or at least, many do. I have to believe them, which must mean that there's a piece of my head missing, because for me this is so tedious I find myself preferring tinnitus.

@tomtriffid 5 жыл бұрын

I think it's Mr. Adams's attempt to extend the sounds these string instruments can achieve; and a good part of his point is to suggest how very possible it is to make them seem like different musical instruments altogether. Additionally, he loves the idea of moving from one remarkable musical idea to another in a way that can make for dramatic change almost before the listener has noticed. This takes an extraordinary talent for gradualism. Respectfully, I suggest that if you find the music "tedious" you're not in fact really hearing it for what it reaches for -- and most often, achieves.

@cobrastriesand7693 5 жыл бұрын

Try having a glass of wine, or toke of pot (if you don't have substance abuse issues), or listening before you fall asleep. I heard it a couple times over the years and thought it sounded like minimalist cliches, but I went back to last week for whatever reason, it suddenly clicked.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Have fun...And, when free of it, try again...Sometimes it takes more than 1 try (I can tell you, at 61 yr age)

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

@@cobrastriesand7693 yep

@charlesbarry971 2 жыл бұрын

Minimalism at its best.

@muslit 2 жыл бұрын

Crescendos, diminuendos, sudden changes of dynamics, changes of textures, changes of harmonies, are not enough to sustain a 30 minute piece of music. An insult to one's intelligence.

@muslit 2 жыл бұрын

No melody.

@carolestroud7026 5 жыл бұрын

horrible snobby screeches

@jslasher1 5 жыл бұрын

Not quite as boring as Steve Reich, but, then, nothing else is.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Boring...Listen , guy !

@jean-louisphelut-ribery8294 7 жыл бұрын

Tout à fait remarquable. Encore plus réussi qu'avec un orhestre d'une vingtaine de musiciens! MERCI!

@eddiegalon3714 5 жыл бұрын

so cool to watch this great piece being played. Must be very difficult.

@Synapsenkitzler 5 жыл бұрын

my soul gets goosebumps. that was good. thanks to all.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Synapsen..., love your name !

@louisdeschenes1416 6 жыл бұрын

Très réussi! Bravo guys!

@gametheus1306 5 жыл бұрын

Man, I can't believe I've neglected to listen to this until now! It's like the melodies are found less in the groundings of pitch and more in rhythm and dynamics, with the harmonies forming overarching musical ideas. I love it, and it certainly gives me more to think about in my compositions.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

He sure is inspiring...Good luck with your's...

@MuseDuCafe 6 жыл бұрын

Bravo!

@edw4rdek 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent job guys. Gretings from Czechia

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

The international of music...That's the way it's supposed to be. And it's supposed to even protect us from war and such. Will it, when the s... hits the fan? Or Greenland threatens to change hands?

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

But then again: Why Greenland, it's cold (and beautiful, no doubt)? England anybody, an island, too? And we (no longer on the Balkans, more NNW from there), tried it before (laugh). Truly sorry guys, sick joke. But fitting with a sick president

@oscarguzman39 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome, wonderful, innovative, very difficult to play.

@mariosanchez200 7 жыл бұрын

¡ magnifico !

@zasterheffor 6 жыл бұрын

Chills!

@timothyw7742 5 жыл бұрын

I love the cough solo at 15:04 🤣

@tomtriffid 5 жыл бұрын

It does seem rather daring to have a quartet consisting of six performers, though it works a kind of violence with the language. Still, it absolutely has the "feel" of a quartet -- and it's astonishing in what it achieves.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

Linguists in music...I LOVE IT...

@hemi969 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty good string band.

@veronikaende3829 5 жыл бұрын

Super.😁

@singtheenergyoflife 7 жыл бұрын

fabulous

@VolkanBass 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

@@VolkanBass You are not exactly an Iowan, are you? But no doubt a great musician...Fabulous rendition, thank you...

@eddiegalon3714 5 жыл бұрын

I keep thinking of James Lipton of The Actors Studio looking at the bass player lol.

@zebulinshelton760 7 жыл бұрын

The fact this only has 10.5k views tell me all I need to know about the state of humanity. :/

@reginaldmolethrasher437 6 жыл бұрын

Don't be ridiculous. Very insulting of you. The fact that many people aren't moved by this kind of music does not mean that they are spiritually lost (being the implication of your loftily contemptuous remark). To many, this music is nothing more than a vaguely intriguing noise - complex, technically demanding no doubt, but in many ways very hard to distinguish from mere sound effects. For many - I'd say the overwhelming majority - much modern classical music, and much modern art generally, is technically fascinating but emotionally meaningless. 'Shaker Loops' will be no exception to those people. The applause at the end of this piece says it all. Not what you'd finish off the Proms with, is it. The "state of humanity" indeed.

@lepistanuda 6 жыл бұрын

ur both wrong and dickheads

@reginaldmolethrasher437 6 жыл бұрын

Very sophisticated of you.

@tomtriffid 5 жыл бұрын

If it is really true that "many people aren't moved by this kind of music," that says considerably more about them than it does about the music. No one can be moved by the music they listen to but do not really hear.

@balkanspeak6573 4 жыл бұрын

@@reginaldmolethrasher437 give Zebulin a break. I get your point, but you may not get, that his words could have even pointed the other way...An Zeb, it's rather hard to read the state of humanity from ANY k's...Especially if you keep in mind that Beethoven has been "pushed" (rightly so, I;d say) for 200 years (that adds many k's, no doubt), Adams for 10 NOT pushed...What is fact and what is marketing? It gets blurry...