Shop and buy johns book of alleged dances sheet music. Johns book of alleged dances from john adams buy now in. Toot nipple by john adams performed by attacca quartet amy schroeder, keiko tokunaga, nathan schram. The alleged dances were the next pieces written after the violin concerto, a complex work that took a full year to compose.
Johns book of alleged dances, for string quartet habanera. Johns book of alleged dances was written for the kronos quartet and is a bit of whimsy in its series of eleven dances for string quartet and a rhythm track made of prepared piano sounds. Commissioned and premiered by the kronos quartet, the first performance took place november 19, 1994, at the california center for the arts, escondido, california. Attacca quartet plays from johns book of alleged dances. Provided to youtube by nonesuch johns book of alleged dances. Full text of duluth evening herald internet archive. California center for the arts, escondido, california. Johns book of alleged dances is a set of ten short dances for string quartet and rhythm loops stored on audio cd. The concerto emboldened me to go further with string writing, and some of the techniques and gestures id touched on in it appeared again in the new string quartet, only in a less earnest guise.
The forecaster, southern edition, june 22, 2018 by the. Buy johns book of alleged dances 2 violins, viola, at. The result is a group of works that pay homage to the backwoods simplicity of americas folktunes. The forecaster, southern edition, june 22, 2018, a sun media publication, pages 128. Johns book of alleged dances, for details allmusic.
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