Nonesuch releases Pulitzer Prize?winning composer John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony on July 21, 2009. A purely instrumental work, the piece is drawn from Adams's opera Doctor Atomic. David Robertson conducts the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra on this recording. Said the New York Times: '[T]he score invites you to hear the music?driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares?on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context.' Also on the album i...   [ read more ]

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A Flowering Tree was commissioned for the 2006 Vienna New Crowned Hope Festival to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Adams became involved at the behest of the director - and longtime friend/collaborator - Peter Sellars, who organized this visionary event and extended invitations to musicians and artists of various disciplines from around the world. Given the festival's global sensibility, Adams took the framework of Mozart's The Magic Flute, a tale of physical and spiritual transforma...   [ read more ]

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