John Adams: Grand Pianola Music (1981)
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Uploaded by musicvideoing on Jun 9, 2008
Sepp Grotenhuis & Gerard Bouwhuis (Pianos)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Edo de Waart
"Grand Pianola Music also started with a dream image in which, while driving down Interstate Route 5, I was approached from behind by two long, gleaming, black stretch limousines. As the vehicles drew up beside me they transformed into the world's longest Steinway pianos ... twenty, maybe even thirty feet long. Screaming down the highway at 90 m.p.h., they gave off volleys of Bb and Eb major arpeggios. I was reminded of walking down the hallways of the San Francisco Conservatory, where I used to teach, hearing the sonic blur of twenty or more pianos playing Chopin, the Emperor Concerto, Hanon, Rachmaninoff, the Maple Leaf Rag and much more." - John Adams
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I cry every time I hear this song...
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Transcendent.
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omg! this is a miracle
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I understand and sympathize with John Adams point of view about modern classical music the avant garde and high art being lofty, out of reach and oppressive.
BUT! this sounds like Liberace.
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FAWESOME
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beautiful piece of minimalist classical music
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wow.....just wow...
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