Lorraine Hunt - El Ninõ - John Adams (1)

The nativity. Associated with the lot of Mexican women in precarity. (Paris 2000) Staged by Peters Sellars, with Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White.

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• Ninõ
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• Upshaw
• Willard
• White
• Peter
• Sellars

[grasmeneer]

theatre / video / lirics / lorraine / sellars

Apocaliptic / heaven

[BeaGagli]

Trés belle!

[Sarcasmitron]

@shnimmuc

What's your name?

[shnimmuc]

@Verschrankung I wish I could like Adams music. But at its best I am merely entertained by it. By the way, I am an internationally known composer who has fought the for tonality all but one period of my composing life. 

[Verschrankung]

@shnimmuc I was discussing composers important to contemporary Christian classical music, not classical music in general. Obviously Whitacre, Golijov, Rutter, and MacMillan (although I do think he's one of the greatest living composers) aren't very important in the grand scale of things. Also, forgot one, Gubaidulina's great in this area too.

[Verschrankung]

@shnimmuc Actually I agree Part has written some brilliant music, like Passio and Magnificat Antiphons, but his recent music is boring.

[Verschrankung]

@shnimmuc I couldn't disagree more. Adams' music is heavily influenced by minimalist and pop-rock harmonies, which is anathema to the musical intellectual elite, who think anything tonal-sounding or consonant is naive and idiotic. Sometimes the structure of his music is intentionally wandering and intentionally self-parodying. The true genius of Adams is his ability to synthesize diverse influences and sources into an incredibly cohesive and powerful whole, e.g. Nixon in China and El Nino.

[shnimmuc]

@Verschrankung Adam`s greatest gift, and it is great, is his his tenacity to write and do nothing with his 3rd rate ideas thereby fill pages with vacuous sounds. A true hack. As for Part, he is spotty but sometimes amazingly on. The other composer you mentioned are not worth mentioning. Every time I listen to Adams, and I have heard most of his works, (some I can`t get through), I want to laugh at the stupidity of his ideas, and just how banal he came become. Again a true hack.

[Verschrankung]

@shnimmuc Adams is easily one of the best composers alive along with Boulez, that is indisputable. That fact that your earlier comments got buried is proof that not only are you wrong, you're an asshole. And composers like Adams and MacMillan are the only ones left who write real Christian music that is complex and rewarding. Apart from them we only get mindless drivel from composers like Whitacre, Golijov, Part, and Rutter.

[shnimmuc]

@Verschrankung Adams is a hack. Lieberson was a great artist. It is a pity she sang a great deal of crap, including the a fore mentioned piece. There is no one else in the world that thinks El Nino is "magnus opus", of Christian classical music except you. See a auditory doctor, or perhaps an IQ evaluator Assjuice..

[Verschrankung]

@shnimmuc Wow, you just shat all over a magnus opus of Christian classical music in the 20th century. You obviously have no ear or taste, because El Nino owes more to Handel, your idol, than anything else that's written anymore. And taking the time to repeatedly piss on Lieberson's legacy shows how despicable you are. It's a shame you can't see why she was drawn to this work, which is more deeply connected--not only musically but spiritually--to Handel than anything in recent memory.

[BrentAudi]

This is amazing. Lorraine Hunt is amazing. This does not compare to hearing it form the DVD Production. Lorraine was breath taking! I am happy this was posted here however.

She will be missed for such a long time. God had another plan for her.

She was a gift for us while she lasted.

Brent