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GUSTAVO DUDAMELLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ADAMS CITY NOIR From The Inaugural Concert DG CONCERTS Live from WaltDisneyConcertHall About the PROGRAM Los Angeles Philharmonic City Noir tain sassy, savvy energy. It was, among other Gustavo Dudamel, conductor John Adams things, a Front Page kind of town where life was lived by many on the edge, and that made Composed: 2009 for good copy and good film noir.” Length: c. 30 minutes Those images and their surrounding aura Performed live in Walt Disney Concert Hall Orchestration: 3 flutes (3rd = piccolo), piccolo whetted my appetite for an orchestral work October 8, 2009 2, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (3rd = that, while not necessarily referring to the bass clarinet 2), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, soundtracks of those films, might nevertheless contrabassoon, alto saxophone, 6 horns, 4 evoke a similar mood and feeling tone of the trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percus- era. I was also stimulated by the notion that ADAMS City Noir (world premiere) sion (temple block, bongos, castanets, chimes, there indeed exists a bona fide genre of jazz- (commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director, clave, conga, cowbell, crotales, suspended inflected symphonic music, a fundamentally generously underwritten by Lenore and Bernard Greenberg; cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, glockenspiel, American orchestral style and tradition that JOHN London Symphony Orchestra in association with Cité de la Musique-Salle Pleyel; tuned gongs, jazz kit, marimba, vibraphone, goes
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