Live: Adams and Schumann
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SSO perform John Adams’ 'Shaker Loops', and works by Joan Tower and Schumann.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis pair John Adams's minimalist masterpiece 'Shaker Loops' with Schumann's Second Symphony in a concert broadcast live from City Halls, Glasgow.
A study in musical energy, John Adams' 1978 piece for strings 'Shaker Loops' generates waves and oscillations of sound from the simplest of materials. Schumann's Second Symphony, published in 1847, creates its own 19th century energies from the twists and turns of its musical counterpoints.
And this concert opens with a dynamic fanfare. Part rebuke, part tribute, the influential American composer Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 1 was written as a rejoinder to the male-dominated music scene of the 1960s, and a spirited salute to the inspiration of risk-taking women.
