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Oorspronklik

John Adams. The Chairman Dances. Score. Sheet Music. Orchestra. ORCH. John Adams.

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John Adams. Die voorsitter Dances. Telling. Sheet Music. Orchestra. Orch. John Adams.

Oorspronklik

John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshoot of the composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'. It has become one of the composer's most popular works. In this piece, from the third act of the Opera, protocol and ceremony are forgotten as the audience is led into the apparent privacy of the characters' bedrooms to hear their intimate discussions. Each sings of his or her current personal concerns, while at some level the couples. Dick and Pat, Chairman and Madam Mao. connect with each other on the emotional plane of nostalgia. The Nixons reminisce about their early, pre-public married lives. The Maos look back to their youthful idealism and budding romance, and foxtrot together to the wistful tune that forms the basis of this composition. The chugging and coloristic flashes that begin the work give way to the dance theme proper in the strings. The work 'runs out' instead of ending, in imitation of the hand-wound gramophone which had accompanied the dancing of the Maos in earlier, happier times. First performed in January 1986 by the Milwaukee Smphony Orchestra, the piece was commissioned by the National Endowment For The Arts.

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John Adams het in die laaste dekades van die twintigste eeu as een van die mees invloedryke en wyd uitgevoer Amerikaanse komponiste sedert Copland. 'Die voorsitter Dances' is 'n 'Foxtrot vir orkes "wat na vore gekom as 'n uitvloeisel van die komponis se 1986 politieke opera' Nixon in China. Dit is een van die komponis se gewildste werke. In hierdie stuk, uit die derde bedryf van die Opera, is protokol en seremonie vergeet as die gehoor word gelei in die oënskynlike privaatheid van die karakters se slaapkamers hul intieme gesprekke te hoor. Elke sing van sy of haar huidige persoonlike bekommernisse, terwyl op 'n sekere vlak van die paartjies. Dick en Pat, voorsitter en Mevrou Mao. met mekaar verbind op die emosionele vlak van nostalgie. Die Nixons onthou oor hul vroeë, pre-openbare getroude lewe. Die Maos terug te kyk na hul jeugdige idealisme en ontluikende romanse, en Foxtrot saam na die peinsende deuntjie wat die grondslag van hierdie samestelling vorm. Die chugging en coloristic flitse wat begin om die werk gee pad na die dans tema behoorlike in die snare. Die werk loop uit "in plaas van die beëindiging van, in nabootsing van die hand-wond grammofoon wat die dans van die Maos in vroeër, gelukkiger tye vergesel het. Die eerste keer in Januarie 1986 deur die Milwaukee Smphony Orkes, was die werk in opdrag van die National Endowment vir die Kunste.