What's On — Adams events

TINARIWEN plus very special guests Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

Sat 24 May Town Hall

Tinariwen are a group of former Touareg warriors from the southern Sahara who (to quote the Sunday Times) ‘strode out of the Sahara with the best rock album of the year [2004], suggesting a gathering of the greatest guitars you’ve ever heard, John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, and electric Bob Dylan burnt into new shapes by the desert sun’. They fought a rebellion in the early 1990s to win greater freedom for the Touareg people, and their fight gave birth to a whole new style of desert music - their roots rock rebellion of the soul is one of the most entrancing sounds to emerge from Africa in years. Standing £17.50 Seating £20
Made in America

Tue 24 Feb 2009 Symphony Hall

Many composers have left Europe to find a new home in the USA, and both in Bartók’s wartime Concerto for Orchestra • composed for the virtuosi of the Boston Symphony Orchestra • and Dvorˇák’s most popular concerto, composed in New York, you can hear elements of each composer’s old world as well as the new. John Adams’ riotous orchestral showpiece seems more authentically American, though it was a by-product of his celebrated opera Nixon in China, and imagines Madam Mao reliving her music-hall past.
Andris Nelsons - conductor Alban Gerhardt - cello
Adams: The Chairman Dances (24 Feb) 12’ Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor 40’ Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra 35’
Made in America

Wed 25 Feb 2009 Symphony Hall

Many composers have left Europe to find a new home in the USA, and both in Bartók’s wartime Concerto for Orchestra • composed for the virtuosi of the Boston Symphony Orchestra • and Dvorˇák’s most popular concerto, composed in New York, you can hear elements of each composer’s old world as well as the new. John Adams’ riotous orchestral showpiece seems more authentically American, though it was a by-product of his celebrated opera Nixon in China, and imagines Madam Mao reliving her music-hall past.
Andris Nelsons - conductor Alban Gerhardt - cello
Brahms: Three Hungarian Dances 12’ Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor 40’ Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra 35’