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List Of Compositions By Thomas Adès
This is a list of compositions by the composer Thomas Adès sorted by genre, date of composition, title and scoring. References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Compositions By Thomas Ades Compositions by Thomas Adès, Lists of compositions by composer, Adès, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: ''The Tempest (opera), The Tempest'' (2004), Violin Concerto (Adès), Violin Concerto (2005), ''Tevot'' (2007), ''In Seven Days'' (2008), and ''Polaris (composition), Polaris'' (2010). Biography Adès was born in London to art historian Dawn Adès and poet Timothy Adès. His surname is of Syrian Jews, Syrian Jewish origin. Adès is gay and identified his sexuality closely with the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his youth. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later musical composition, composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. After attending University College School, he achieved a First-Class Honours, double starred first in 1992 at King's College, Cambridge, studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grawemeyer Award (Music Composition)
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition () is an annual prize instituted by Henry Charles Grawemeyer, industrialist and entrepreneur, at the University of Louisville in 1984. The award was first given in 1985. Subsequently, the Grawemeyer Award was expanded to other categories: ''Ideas Improving World Order'' (instituted in 1988), ''Education'' (1989), ''Religion'' (1990) and ''Psychology'' (2000). The prize fund was initially an endowment of US$9 million from the Grawemeyer Foundation. The initial awards were for $150 000 each, increasing to $200 000 for the year 2000 awards. After the economic crash of 2008, the prize was reduced to $100,000. The selection process includes three panels of judges. The first is a panel of faculty from the University of Louisville, who hosts and maintains the perpetuity of the award. The second is a panel of music professionals, often involving conductors, performers, and composers (most frequently the previous winner). The final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin Concerto (Ligeti)
The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by György Ligeti is a violin concerto written for and dedicated to the violinist Saschko Gawriloff. A performance of the work lasts about 28 minutes. History The first version of the concerto consisted of three movements. This version was performed on 3 November 1990 in Cologne. In 1992, Ligeti revised the score by replacing the first movement and adding two new movements. This new version was premiered on 8 October 1992 in Cologne.Ligeti, György. Konzert für Violine und Orchester (1990/92). Germany: Schott Music, 2002. Study Score. Finally, he reorchestrated the third and fourth movements, and the final version was first performed on 9 June 1993 by Gawriloff with the Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez. Music The concerto consists of five movements: Ligeti originally planned an eight-movement work when composing the concerto. Parts of the unfinished movements were used by Gawriloff and Ligeti for the cadenza in the fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polaris (composition)
''Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra'' is an orchestral composition by the British composer Thomas Adès. The work was co-commissioned by the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas for the opening of the New World Center. The New World Symphony was joined in commission by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Barbican Centre, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. It was given its world premiere by Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony at the New World Center in Miami Beach on January 26, 2011. Adès, Thomas (2010)Polaris: Program Note Retrieved May 25, 2016. Composition ''Polaris'' is composed in one continuous movement and has a duration of roughly 15 minutes. The work features an optional abstract video accompaniment created by Adès's then partner, the filmmaker and video artist Tal Rosner. The title of the piece refers to the star Polaris, also known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tal Rosner
Tal Rosner (; born in Jerusalem, 9 June 1978) is a London-based Israeli filmmaker and video artist. Career In May 2008, Rosner won a BAFTA for Best Title Sequence for the E4 teen drama Skins at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. Since 2005, Rosner has collaborated with various musicians, including: Katia and Marielle Labeque, New World Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jennifer Koh. His video for '' In Seven Days'', Piano Concerto with Moving Image, composed by Thomas Adès, was premiered by the London Sinfonietta at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 28 April 2008. The work was co-commissioned by the Southbank Centre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His experimental film '' Without You'' (2008), commissioned by Animate Projects for Channel 4 and Arts Council England had earned Rosner screenings at film-festivals and venues worldwide, including Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Tribeca (NYC), Onedotzero and Tate Modern In 2009, Rosn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Seven Days
''In Seven Days: Concerto for Piano with Moving Image'' is a piano concerto by the British composer Thomas Adès. The work was commissioned by the Southbank Centre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was given its world premiere by the pianist Nicolas Hodges and London Sinfonietta under Adès at the Royal Festival Hall on April 28, 2008. An optional video accompaniment was created for performance with the piece by Adès's then partner Tal Rosner. Adès, Thomas (2008)In Seven Days: Program Note Retrieved May 27, 2016. Composition Structure ''In Seven Days'' has a duration of roughly 28 minutes and is composed in seven movements: #Chaos – Light – Dark #Separation of the waters into sea and sky #Land – Grass – Trees #Stars – Sun – Moon #Fugue – Creatures of the Sea and Sky #Fugue – Creatures of the Land #Contemplation The movements musically recount each of the seven days of the Biblical creation narrative as detailed in the Book of Genesis. Instrumentation The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tevot
''Tevot'' is a one-movement symphony for orchestra by the British composer Thomas Adès. The work was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall. The world premiere was given by the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Simon Rattle at the Berliner Philharmonie on February 21, 2007. The United States premiere was given by the same ensemble at Carnegie Hall on November 14, 2007. Adès, Thomas (2007)Tevot: Program Note Retrieved May 27, 2016. Composition ''Tevot'' has is composed in one continuous movement and has a duration of roughly 22 minutes. Background The title of the piece comes from the Hebrew word for "bars of music." In the score program note, Adès added, "Also, in the Bible, (tey-VA) is the ark of Noah, and the cradle in which the baby Moses is carried on the river." The composer further described the meaning in an interview with Tom Service of ''The Guardian'', remarking, "I liked the idea that the bars of the music were carrying the notes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin Concerto (Adès)
The Violin Concerto, subtitled ''Concentric Paths'', is a composition for solo violin and chamber orchestra by the British composer Thomas Adès. It was jointly commissioned by the Berliner Festspiele and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with funding from the philanthropists Lenore and Bernard Greenberg. It was composed for the violinist Anthony Marwood, who gave the world premiere with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Berlin on September 4, 2005. Composition Structure ''Concentric Paths'' has a duration of roughly 20 minutes and is composed in three connected movements: Instrumentation The work is scored for solo violin and an orchestra comprising two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. Reception The concerto has been praised by music critics. Richard S. Ginell of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote, "The Violin Concerto (''Concentric Paths'') is a good example of how Adès has been evolving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of River Avon, Warwickshire, Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including William Shakespeare's collaborations, collaborations, consist of some Shakespeare's plays, 39 plays, Shakespeare's sonnets, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays List of translations of works by William Shakespeare, have been translated into every major modern language, living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tempest
''The Tempest'' is a Shakespeare's plays, play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a magician, lives with his daughter Miranda (The Tempest), Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel (The Tempest), Ariel, an airy spirit. The play contains music and songs that evoke the spirit of enchantment on the island. It explores many themes, including Magic (supernatural), magic, betrayal, revenge, forgiveness and family. In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-a-play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language. Although ''The Tempest'' is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of Shakespeare's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Oakes
Meredith Oakes (born 18 Sept 1946) is an Australian playwright who has lived in London since 1970. She has written plays, adaptations, translations, opera texts and poems, and taught play-writing at Royal Holloway College and for the Arvon Foundation. She also wrote music criticism before leaving Australia for ''The Daily Telegraph'' in Sydney, and from 1988 to 1991 for ''The Independent'', as well as contributing to a variety of magazines including '' The Listener''. Life Meredith Oakes is a seventh-generation Australian who was educated at Cheltenham Girls High School, Sydney from 1959 to 1963, and then at the University of Sydney where she took double honours in French and Music. She studied violin with Gordon Bennett of the Sydney String Quartet and piano as a second instrument. In London, she initially worked for the magazine ''Music and Musicians'' as an editorial assistant and writer, and later was public relations officer for Allied Artists Agency from 1972 to 1973 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tempest (opera)
''The Tempest'' is an opera by English composer Thomas Adès with a libretto in English by Meredith Oakes based on the play ''The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare. Background and premiere performances Following the success of '' Powder Her Face'', The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, commissioned a new opera from Adès in the late 1990s. Working with a librettist, a poetic version of the Jonestown Massacre of 1978 was prepared, but the composer found it impossible to set it to music. Finally, the libretto he needed emerged from a collaboration with Meredith Oakes. The new opera became a co-production with the Copenhagen Opera House and the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg. ''The Tempest'' received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the Royal Opera House in London on 10 February 2004. Other productions followed in Strasbourg and Copenhagen later in 2005 and the opera was given its US premiere staging by the Santa Fe Opera on 29 July 2006. Performance history Covent Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
