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February 16th, 2007 by Daithí | Filed under Lost and Found, Music.

Dublin audiences have the pleasure of a John Adams festival this weekend. I was in the (small, but enthusiastic) audience for the first event, being the National Symphony Orchestra taking on Lollapolooza, Century Rolls and Harmonielehre (links are to information and audio clips on each piece). Other events over the weekend include jazz concerts, chamber music (including the rare pleasure of Gerald Barry’s Piano Quartet No 1, known to anyone who sat the Leaving Certificate in certain years: study notes (PDF), audio sample (Real)), a film showing and more. Fair dues to RTÉ and Lyric FM for keeping the Living Music festivals on the road (and that’s not just because they gave me a funky Lyric FM t-shirt this evening…)

Anyway, mainly to see if it works, here’s a short clip from Lollapalooza (plays from earbox.com, which is the composer’s official site):

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9 Responses to “Adams-adams-adadaMs ADAMS-aDamS-adams”

  1. Eoin | 16/02/07

    Since you’ve treated the site to a photo of the small beige toaster, why not a photo of you modelling the t-shirt then? Oh, and the audio clip worked (I listened as I typed this comment).

  2. Daithí | 17/02/07

    No.
    :-P

  3. Daithí | 17/02/07

    Let the record show that I do this under protest.

    Lyric FM t-shirt, frontLyric FM t-shirt, back

  4. Bernard Clarke | 20/02/07

    Looks very smart! Wonder what an exclusive Adams design would look like? You know with a boxing ring for Lollapalooza, a flying oil tanker, baby and 12th century mystic for Harmonielehre and a piano roll with perforated dots for Century Rolls…

  5. Daithí | 22/02/07

    Thanks for stopping by, Bernard. (Bernard Clarke hosts the ‘Nova‘ show on Lyric that is advertised on the back of the t-shirt, and presented some of the Festival live broadcasts at the weekend).

    Sounds like a great idea for a multimedia tie-in; you’ve heard the symphony, now buy the t-shirt! For John Cage you could have a special non-tshirt that allows you to study the body beneath. The possibilities are limitless…

  6. Bernard Clarke | 18/06/07

    Daithí
    A Stockhausen teeshirt would do all of us at the same time: he’s so big headed. Or there’s a Webern or Kurtág design that only fits on the top of one arm, so concentrated. Then there’s a proto minimalist one that would go on and on forever.
    Fruit of the loom the loom the loom the loom the loom the loom the loom
    Bernard

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