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Colourful Americana demonstrates the many strengths of the Sinfonia of London at the BBC Proms. 

The LSO opens its three-concert Sydney stay with a panoply of colours and virtuoso orchestral playing in a programme of Adams, Debussy and Ravel, under the masterful leadership of Sir Simon Rattle

Pop star Angélique Kidjo joins Dennis Russell Davies and the Brno Philharmonic for vibrant performances of Adams and Glass.

Another classic Rattle concert produced a very strong sense of occasion at the Barbican. Sir Simon is certainly making his mark on the London concert scene...

A novel venue provided the unusual setting for an engaging and impressive performance by the Multi-Story Orchestr and Multi-Story Youth Choir of music by JS Bach, Kate Whitley and John Adams.

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic somewhat overpower the hall for the music of John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen's concerto fascinates on a first hearing.

Julian Rachlin steps in at the last moment and scores a win on a winning score.

A potpourri of styles and chronology portrayed effectively by Edo de Waart, Augustin Hadelich, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra Miami principal conductor Giancarlo Guerrero led a moving reading of Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten and a blazing John Adams Harmonielehre.

Dennis Russell Davies and the Basel Symphony orchestra, in their tour of the UK, have bravely chosen to take with them a generous selection of minimalist works by some of the leading composers in this genre, a brilliant programme of music by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and John Adams at Cadogan Hall.

As a teenager, I recall feeling how American classical music differed from European; its harmonies seemed as wide open as the plains depicted on film; its rhythmic freedom grabbed me viscerally. The same feeling obtains many years later and certainly did in this RSNO programme.

January 2013 is turning out to be a pretty major month for 20th-and 21st-century classical music in London’s cultural mainstream, with Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur roaring loudly at the Royal Opera House and the Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise series, a year-long celebration of 20th-century music, launching currently.

The Shang Emperor of China had inscribed on his washbasin the admonition “Make it New”.Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2012/13 season made it new by including in its first-night program a work by a living composer, Harmonielehre by the American John Adams.

John Adams dirigiert das Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in einem interessanten Programm, das jedoch nicht immer überzeugen kann.

La exultante conclusión de Harmonielehre alcanzó tal impacto sonoro y estético, que rompió las barreras arquitectónicas del Palacio de Festivales.

Das Philharmonische Orchester Rotterdam spielte unter Leitung des Dirigenten Robert Trevino Werke von Ligeti, Barber und Adams . Ein entfesseltes Orchester entließ am Ende sein Publikum verwundert und überwältigt.

L’Auditorium célèbre les 70 ans du minimaliste en sa présence, avec l’ONL sous la direction de Leonard Slatkin et l’éblouissante violoniste Hilary Hahn dans le concerto de Tchaïkovski

Leonidas Kavakos et John Adams ont apporté jeudi soir au Victoria Hall le supplément d'âme de la soirée, avec Markus Stenz à la tête de l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.