Adams Wiederkehr Initiation Und Männerspiritualität"

Arthur Dents zufällige Beziehung zum außergewöhnlichen Reiseführer „Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis“ blieb nicht gänzlich ohne Zwischenfälle. Arthur hat den bekannten (und unbekannten) Weltraum bis in die letzten Winkel und darüber hinaus bereist, nachdem sein Haus (und der gesamte Planet Erde) an einem furchtbar dummen Donnerstag einer Hyperraum-Schnellstraße weichen musste. Nach diversen Eskapaden im Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum landet er schließlich zu Hause auf der geliebten Erde - die gleich darauf wieder in die Luft fliegt.

As part of his final year as Music Director and following a two-season celebration of the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and the RSNO here present their second recording of music by John Adams, with the exceptional participation of the Doric String Quartet. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poetry as analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the ‘bipolar’ musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999. Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the music of Beethoven, which Adams has always deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of Beethoven’s music (mainly his string quartets) and facilitates a ‘hyperspace rate’ of virtuosity, which the Doric String Quartet here perfectly demonstrates.

Mixing the heartfelt angst of a singer/songwriter with the cocky brashness of a garage rocker, Ryan Adams is at once one of the few artists to emerge from the alt-country scene into mainstream commercial success and the one who most strongly refuses to be defined by the genre, leaping from one spot to another stylistically as he follows his muse. After the collapse of his alt-country band Whiskeytown, Adams wasted no time launching a prolific solo career, releasing a string of award-winning albums. A prolific collaborator and producer as well, Adams has worked with an eclectic set of artists including Willie Nelson, Fall Out Boy, Cowboy Junkies, Jenny Lewis, and Toots & the Maytals.

On October 19, 1999, Nonesuch Records released The John Adams Earbox, a 10-CD box set retrospective, representing nearly all of John Adams’s recorded output for the label. The set includes all of the composer’s major works with which Adams has redefined contemporary classical music over the previous two decades. All recordings on The John Adams Earbox were supervised by the composer, and many were conducted or performed by Adams as well. All but four works on the Earbox were originally released on Nonesuch as first recordings. The John Adams Earbox includes examples from every phase of Adams’s career, from his earliest orchestral pieces such as Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985), and Harmonium (1980), to the widely hailed operas Nixon in China (1985-86) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1990-91), to works of this decade including Chamber Symphony (1992), Violin Concerto (1993), John’s Book of Alleged Dances (written for Kronos Quartet in 1994), Gnarly Buttons (1995) and the 1995 stagework I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky.

Bryan Adams With his powerfully raspy voice and T-shirt and blue jeans classic rock swagger, Bryan Adams is a pop icon who has scored hit after hit, attaining global fame in the 1980s. A rising star in his native Canada beginning in the late '70s, he first made headway with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. However, it was 1984's Reckless that turned him into an international sensation thanks to the hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." From that point on, Adams sold out arenas (much like his contemporaries Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp) and broke chart records, as with his 1991 power ballad "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)." He continued this success with 1994's "All for Love" and 1995's "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," and remained a formidable presence on the American charts with albums like 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours and 1996's 18 Til I Die. Adams has also retained a loyal audience in the U.K. and Canada, where he's scored Top Ten albums like 2008's 11, 2015's Get Up, and 2019's Juno Award-winning Shine a Light.

Limited five CD set containing a quintet of albums from the Canadian AOR singer/songwriter: Reckless, 18 Till I Die, Live Live Live, Waking Up The Neighbors and MTV Unplugged.

Bryan Adams With his powerfully raspy voice and T-shirt and blue jeans classic rock swagger, Bryan Adams is a pop icon who has scored hit after hit, attaining global fame in the 1980s. A rising star in his native Canada beginning in the late '70s, he first made headway with his 1983 album Cuts Like a Knife. However, it was 1984's Reckless that turned him into an international sensation thanks to the hits "Run to You," "Heaven," and "Summer of '69." From that point on, Adams sold out arenas (much like his contemporaries Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp) and broke chart records, as with his 1991 power ballad "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)." He continued this success with 1994's "All for Love" and 1995's "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," and remained a formidable presence on the American charts with albums like 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours and 1996's 18 Til I Die. Adams has also retained a loyal audience in the U.K. and Canada, where he's scored Top Ten albums like 2008's 11, 2015's Get Up, and 2019's Juno Award-winning Shine a Light.