Thomas Adès in Five Essays, Hardcover by Massey, Drew, Like New Used, Free sh...
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Thomas Adès in Five Essays, Hardcover by Massey, Drew, ISBN 0199374961, ISBN-13 9780199374960, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The British composer, conductor, and pianist Thomas Adáes (b. 1971) has achieved a level of recognition and celebrity within the concert world shared by very few living musicians today, and his compositions enjoy a degree of wide-spread acclaim that places him among the most widely-heard composers working now. His critical and popular successes, at least inside the insulated world of classical music, place him within the absolute mainstream of concert life today. Is he merely pecking over the carcass ofa tradition, soon to be subsumed by or abandoned in favor of some other cultural practice? Or does his work suggest possibilities for a concert world waiting to be born? This book, which is the first full-length study of Adáes's work as a whole in English, seeks to answer - or at least articulate the terms of response to - these questions and others. Considering the diversity of Adáes's output, this book is structured as a series of essays. These essays are organized thematically. The first two essays considers Adáes's arrangements and serialist compositions, respectively. The third looks at how his opera The Tempest illuminates much of his music's beguiling contradictions. The fourth considers how Adáes has been understood as a "surrealist" composer, and the final chapter considers the cosmic sweep of some of his most recent works"--
