Adams: Always Very Soft
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Shipping Policy- Composer: John Luther Adams (1953-)
- Format: Performance Score
- Instrumentation: Percussion Ensemble
- Work: Always Very Soft
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- Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
Description
'I began Always Very Soft in the spring of 1973 and completed it more than three decades later. Originally the piece was scored for percussion trio and de-tuned 'cello. I conducted that version in my ?nal semester at the California Institute of the Arts. in time, I came to regard it as my last student work, and withdrew it from my active catalog.
Fast forward thirty-some-odd years to the spring of 2007.
For quite some time, I'd had in mind to compose a perpetual acceleration canon - music that seems always to be getting faster, but somehow never really does. As I pondered this I remembered that piece from long ago. So I dug out the old score and looked it over.
From my new perspective, it seemed to me that my younger self had been attempting to compose a continuum of discontinuities - weaving disparate timbres and velocities into a subtly articulated whole.
This new version of Always Very Soft contains not a single note from the original version. But I hope it conveys a more coherent and essential distillation of that early musical thought.' - John Luther Adams
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Adams: Always Very Soft
