John Adams is the most famous classic composer in the USA – he wrote the play for the first anniversary 9/11 for the New York Philharmonic. Encounter with someone who proves that orchestral music can be as political and modern.
“The way he rehearses,” says cellist Sven Faulian from the Munich Philharmonic, “I can imagine that he also composed it.” The somewhat puzzling speech aims at John Adams, the most famous composer in the United States, who is currently rehearsing his most famous orchestral piece in the Isarphilharmonie with the half -hour “harmony honor”. The sporty 78-year-old resembles a dancer who knows hair, briefly cut, nickel glasses. Now he is sitting on the conductor stool in front of the musicians and, with the conductor’s staff, conjures up the music from the orchestra: glasses mysterious sounds and tripping rhythms and repetitions, into which shifts are mixed, interference actions, idea of apocalypse. Adams also act as energetic as the music. Sample style and music agree.