John Adams - Doctor Atomic Symphony (Official Score Video w/ Live Chat Commentary)

The Juilliard School and Boosey & Hawkes present a Live Score Reading of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic Symphony,” featuring a recording of the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Adams himself.
**This video was premiered on KZbin on August 13. Click "SHOW CHAT REPLAY" in the top right corner next to this video to see live comments from our special guest commentators: conductor David Robertson (director of conducting studies, distinguished visiting faculty at Juilliard), Emma Frucht, Violin MM 19' (Concertmaster on recording), and Dr. Kyle Blaha (Juilliard Ear Training Faculty). **
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ABOUT DOCTOR ATOMIC SYMPHONY:
I. The Laboratory
II. Panic
III. Trinity
Dedicated to David Robertson, who gave the first American performances in Saint Louis and at Carnegie Hall, John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic Symphony” draws music from Adams acclaimed 2005 opera, and is cast in a sustained, 25-minute arch form.
The symphonic work captures the spirit of the opera, conjuring a devastated post-nuclear landscape right from the start with the pounding timpani and Varèse-like jagged brass fanfares. The symphony also includes the frenzied “panic music” from Act II evoking the fierce electrical storm that lashes the test site in the hours before the bomb's detonation.
Adams transforms specific vocal lines into instrumental solos: the boorish trombone music that imitates U.S. Army General Leslie Groves berating the scientists and his military subordinates, as well as the symphony’s stirring conclusion-a solo trumpet intoning the opera’s moving “Batter My Heart” aria.
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Music:
Doctor Atomic Symphony
Composed by John Adams
Performed by John Adams and the Juilliard Orchestra, 2018
Archival performance recording courtesy of The Juilliard School
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[@BooseyHawkes]

ABOUT DOCTOR ATOMIC SYMPHONY: I. The Laboratory II. Panic III. Trinity Doctor Atomic Symphony is a purely instrumental work drawn from the 2005 opera. It includes music from the opera’s overture, the Act II “panic” music, the “military matters” sections from Act I, and culminates with an orchestral setting of Oppenheimer’s signature “Batter My Heart” aria that closes Act I of the opera. The score is dedicated to David Robertson, who gave the first American performances in Saint Louis and at Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2008.

[@enriquesanchez2001]

Tremendous learning experience for all composers ♥

[@williambent9636]

love john adams used several of his comp. when teaching music appreciation.

[@ZannMusicCom]

Great work. But i misunderstood the idea of "Live Chat Commentary". I thought Mr. Adams would say something inbetween the sections about the piece or would focus especially on some parts like the live commentary we have on several DVDs or BluRays by the directors . The music is only in MONO what makes it a bit harder to listen to all the instruments. When the horn or the clarinet plays a solo i can see and listen simultaneosly so i don´t need one who writes it in the chat ;-) OK, it was my fault, my wrong expectation. But thank you very much Boosey & Hawkes for the possibility to follow the score.

[@flanplan5903]

I hope this gets used for trailer music when the new Christopher Nolan movie about Oppenheimer (and the Manhattan Project) drops sometime late this year.

[@FruitDurian]

Movement Time Stamp Reference: I. The Laboratory - 0:00 II. Panic - 2:47 (with attacca to Trinity) III. Trinity - 17:34

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

Very modern feel

[@Aussie1276]

Love hearing the music but "Batter My Heart", while stunning, just isn't the same without hearing Gerald Finley's magnificent Bass-Baritone singing the part of Oppenheimer

[@hung-kaiwen2888]

16:19 11:26

[@DeadTalkLive]

Nice video 👍👍👍! As a fellow KZbinr, I am on the lookout for creative ideas! Excellent Job!

[@Ray-h5j]

2:47

[@georgenabil2348]

17:31 Better my Heart

[@citizenworld8094]

I listened to it all. To be honest, I've tried to like this 4/4 composer but this, again, does nothing for me. Frankly this would be better in a black and white silent movie but as concert music it was always demanding my on my ear and never inviting. Rhythmically it fell off the same ole cliff after the first few minutes. He seems so preoccupied with trying to orchestrate rather than communicate.

[@agramsci7976]

Brilliant compared to the film soundtrack which sounded like a bad impression of an equally bad composer Hans Zimmer.

[@paweyyy3338]

I bought the CD, it was big mistake

[@fredericchopin6445]

why

[@paweyyy3338]

@@fredericchopin6445 awful music