John Adams with St Lawrence String Quartet

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)	Appalachian Spring: Suite
Carter, Elliott (1908-2012)	Variations for Orchestra
Ives, Charles (1874-1954)	Country Band March
Adams, John (b. 1947)	Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra

Performers

John Adams	Conductor
St Lawrence String Quartet
London Symphony Orchestra

Tickets £10-£36

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Adams conducts Adams at the Barbican with the LSO and St Lawrence String Quartet

Edward Whitney, 27th January

Inspiration for a composition can come in many forms; a letter from Clara Schumann, the brutality of Stalin's police, growing deaf or hearing birdsong. The final concert of John Adams’ short residency at the Barbican focused on a more reverent strain of influence, however: the peculiar tendency for living composers to want to reference dead ones.

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