John Adams - Harmonium - BBC Proms 2017

Performance from the First Night of the BBC Proms 2017.
Conductor - Edward Gardner
Orchestra - BBC Symphony Orchestra
Choir - BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Proms Youth Choir

[@emmaclarke4724]

Singing as part of the choir for this performance was definitely one of the most exhilarating moments of my life

[@truthlivingetc88]

Respect to you you you you high flier with golden voice ! Any health tips for keeping the voice in shape ?

[@ChollieD]

Congratulations, Emma. It's a great recording, both audio and video, of a great performance.

[@lotusbuds2000]

WOW WOW WOW congratulations! Fantastic composition and sound all around...WISH I WERE THERE TO LISTEN...at least I catch these BBC Proms on youtube...!!! i'm coming around to "really" liking John Adams compositions!! And Stravinsky and really embracing 20th century....the "good" music ....I was born in Manchester but never really lived there. My late father was in love with the British orchestras, esp. Malcom Sargent..- way back when....now must supplement my violin playing with singing and piano..at an older age now...I still feel 40 :) at most. BTW, MTT and SFS (san francisco symphony) just did premier of John Adams "So I Still Dance" at San Fran Davies Symphony Hall and i did make it this time to the concert...I dance too..I'm still alive..AMEN!

[@Walker-ld3dn]

How can there only be 1,000 'hits' for this music? This is glorious. People, we all know Beethoven and Mozart are great.....but please try something else....like this! Music does not stop in time; it must keep moving. Let's move with it. Try something 'new.' Time will be good to John Adams. Enjoy.

[@TromboneConductor767]

took 4 more years but now it has 95, 000.

[@longhaulblue]

28:22. The release and the slow calm that follows. "Were I with thee..." And the release continues with "rowing...ah! the sea..." And so tender, "might I but moor tonight in thee..." The words and the music, so inspired. Really, there are no words to describe it. Then, the trumpet playing a taps-like series of notes. And at 32:46, the lady with the platinum hair, I know exactly how she feels when she sings those rising notes. This is a masterpiece and a once in a lifetime performance. Bravo!

[@warrenwilson4818]

Terrific piece, singers and players all excellent. Gardner is wonderful. July 26, 2023, St. Joseph, MO, USA

[@PhillipCheah]

The arrival of the chord at 17:22: perfect beauty. And the ecstasy of that spellbinding transition to the final movement "Wild Nights" is perhaps one of the most magical sections of all. This entire work leaves a lump in my throat, always. Bravi tutti!

[@TheMikkis100]

Those kind of chord changes are the best thing in minimalism. I don't know if they're working by the normal tonal laws or whatever but they sound so right and beautiful!

[@happymealchiz]

Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me

[@Giarola77]

Real nurturing!

[@rubytuesday8888]

Hi Philip! Fun to find you here! Yes, that's a lovely moment, I love the minute that precedes it.

[@matthewanderson6818]

i had a cassette tape of this in the 80s that I taped off the radio when I was a teenager, and 30 years later it has never gotten old. I don't know what it is, but this is magical every time I hear it. Not overly long, not overly complex, just that constant sense of journey and arrival.

[@servouk]

Matthew Anderson it is pretty complex tbf man I've sung it a few times

[@truthlivingetc88]

is Edison Denisov`s Requiem more complex than this ?

[@charlescoleman5509]

Servo It’s complex to perform. But not to listen to.

[@jforozco12]

Every time I listen to this I feel myself closer to something I cant describe but somehow sacred

[@jeffreyhickey]

34 minutes of sustained goose bumps. Thank you for posting this. I only wish I could have been there.

[@tannermenard1768]

this is a beautiful beautiful performance of this piece. when I was 14 I was given a copy of an early recording. all these years later this piece holds a special place in my life. it is wonderful to see all of the young people singing this & enjoying it.

[@conraddean6510]

Had the pleasure of seeing this live. I have never heard anything like it!

[@kait5470]

Most gorgeous music ever composed .... all of John Adams.

[@dale0013]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@jjjj5452]

Adams' best work

[@MuseDuCafe]

As fine as this is, it is hard not to wish to have been there in the hall. Spectacular piece, wonderful performance.

[@timothyw7742]

For those of you wondering what the lyric is at 8:12, I took the time to transcribe it for you: Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh You're welcome 😊

[@zurazakut-sa4107]

The lyrics at that phase is "dat dat dat dat dat dat ..........................................."

[@McFraneth]

Discovered John Adams in the 1990s, and this still gives me goose pimples.

[@randomprimate]

Thanks for posting this. Certainly some of the most glorious music ever composed.

[@robandwood57]

I've only just found this and it is glorious. I well remember the adverse comments on the BBC Radio 3's facebook page decrying the piece, the performance and its very presence at the opening night of the 2017 Proms, so sad. I have the first recording of this from 1980 - the San Francisco Symphony conducted by de Waart; this performance equals that. thank you for posting.

[@davecatalyst]

Amazing piece of music. Been keeping my eyes open for a performance of this for couple of years and was gutted I couldn’t make this

[@kropchik]

Amazing. Wonderful Britten and Schnitke coral influence

[@dominoplay3712]

What a performance 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@stismail]

"Wild Nights" is such a hard ending to pull off: there's a line between being in control and just devolving into chaos. This performance comes about as close to the line as I've ever heard without crossing over. Bravo!

[@Griffinmc]

Gorgeous. Thanks for posting.

[@johnhancock6213]

Tap dancing at the proms

[@johnhancock6213]

Chorus line dancing at the promenade concert

[@ChollieD]

Wow, congratulations to everyone involved! I've heard this many times on recording, but to watch is to understand what a great big _difficult_ score that is to sing and to play. And here it's executed very well. Bravo!

[@longhaulblue1145]

I couldn't agree more. I've listened to this piece repeatedly for a few years now ever since I discovered minimalism. But I've never paid close attention to the text. With the captions and the camera work highlighting a particular voice in the chorus, it really does strike home how intricate it is. A modern masterpiece! My favorite: "Might I but moor in thee tonight." I can't begin to describe how profound these words mean to me and with the extra voices singing "Rowing in Eden". Truly exquisite.

[@jenarega83]

Beautiful music, beautiful performance!!!

[@olhardesperto6346]

fantastic piece!

[@abigailhamiltonactor]

Thing is! They always seem to play it on the first night, when it's almost impossible for us true Adams fans to get a ticket. This audience is mostly composed of those who go because it's fashionable, (I'm NOT counting the Promenaders)---why else would they applaud at the end of the first movement??? Don't they realise that this is probably the most sublime thing they'll ever have the good fortune to hear?? (sob) Of how I wish I could have been there!!!

[@garyhickman6897]

Exactly !!

[@abigailhamiltonactor]

Ah Gary! You're a man after my own heart!

[@TheMikkis100]

In Finland we have a lot of people who only come to censerts because they've used to it. Sometimes you can hear someone snoring in the hall, because they don't really care about the music. That's also why even bad pieces get the same amount of applauses.

[@jackusdk]

No, smart-ass, it's not because they don't care, it's because in a closed hall the oxygen is used up by the audience and it puts some people to sleep during even the most awesome music. Don't be such a snob!

[@abigailhamiltonactor]

Wanting to hear my favourite music is not being a snob, but writing a supposedly badass response to a perfectly normal comment most certainly is. We're here for the music, not to try showing how clever we are---get over yourself!

[@tatalito]

INCREDIBLE, AMAZING

[@lednew2010]

I have loved this work since the first time I heard it. Great performance here.

[@katepengelly5437]

Absolutely beautiful 😊😊😊. A true journey

[@jacquesbertrand3246]

extraordinary! John Adams is one of the greatest composers of the XX ° / XXI ° century! And he is still alive! We must tell him we love him!

[@thomasromano9321]

AMEN to that!!!

[@jacquesbertrand3246]

@Gary Allen Do you know this interview ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpXQpmmAhsaXj9U

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

absolutely bloody wonderful

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

sublime

[@easterislandhead9579]

perfect!!

[@MarcoInchingolo83]

Great composer and great performance!

[@pedrosuarez5722]

Bellísimo. thanks

[@เรียนภาษาอังกฤษวันนี้]

SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!

[@irinatumakova2835]

Шикарно!

[@jacquesbertrand3246]

One day, we will be understood that John Adams was perhaps one of the greatest composers of the twentieth / twenty-first century!

[@luismanuel2612]

What a treasure. thank you very much for posting this...

[@artbugzrecords]

Epic, respect

[@richardmedot]

Magnifique Super Extra OH QUEL Orchestre

[@lccus]

beautiful

[@dierotewand3297]

sublime music.

[@cgb01]

Increíble

[@bono0298]

24:06-24:30 what a glorious moment! A Great performance, congrats everyone form #TeamUoB

[@lotusbuds2000]

Anyone know how many members in orchestra + chorus?

[@byronever]

Bellísimo, genial!!!!

[@arianaverde]

JOHN ADAMS TEXT FOR HARMONIUM 1. Negative Love John Donne 1572 - 1631 I NEVER stoop'd so low, as they Which on an eye, cheek, lip, can prey ; Seldom to them which soar no higher Than virtue, or the mind to admire. For sense and understanding may Know what gives fuel to their fire ; My love, though silly, is more brave ; For may I miss, whene'er I crave, If I know yet what I would have. If that be simply perfectest, Which can by no way be express'd But negatives, my love is so. To all, which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best, What we know not-ourselves-can know, Let him teach me that nothing. This As yet my ease and comfort is, Though I speed not, I cannot miss. 2. Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886 Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played At wrestling in a ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground: The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then ‘tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads Were toward eternity. 3. Wild Nights Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886 Wild Nights-Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our Luxury! Futile - the winds - To a Heart in port - Done with the Compass - Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden - Ah, the sea! Might I but moor - Tonight - In thee!

[@benjaminnylander1355]

WAAAAALNUTS! WAAAAALLLLNUTS! WAAaaAAaaAAaaAAaaAAaaLLNUUUuuuuTS!

[@Supersamazing]

15:22 that moustache though!

[@BillyPalmerMusic]

what a guy

[@osushi1366]

アダムズ作品での合唱付きは初聴きです！スゲエ(≧▽≦)

[@JJBRMusic]

24:05 - Goosebumps.

[@colefortier]

Had the same reaction at that same part

[@SDPickups]

I just stumbled on this. Does anyone have the full text of the words in this song? Source?

[@HarryFontaine]

The poems are Negative Love by John Donne, and Because I Could Not Stop For Death/Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson.

[@dylanreid700]

Does anyone know where to find the score for this

[@postbodzapism]

I like the idea that the keyboardist play two keyboards at the same time

[@yesman2407]

so much Andriessen

[@lccus]

The Book of Naki by hineni for zakiah ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Chapter 1 Let me write my words in these books, So that when they are read by future generations, The love we have can be known forever. Chapter 2 In spite of this pain, I would gladly love you again, As if we had never met. Chapter 3 Don't forget me, my dove, For when these troubles consume us, We will forget, as we should. Chapter 4 I had only seen a glimpse of you, Through distant windows of time, And through eternal waters. Chapter 5 You are all that I need, And with this, I can rest. But the world may not agree, Yet I will be at rest. You make it difficult to forget, And in this, I can rest. Yet when I remember who you are, I will be free in this rest. Please, don't ever leave me, For when you go, I am in rest. Yet, even when I see you streaming down the pastures, I leave in my rest. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Amen.

[@jonathanrickertmusic]

27:05

[@KlldbyCuriosity]

8:14

[@mogwaifan7094]

what can you say to that.

[@MuseDuCafe]

"I liked that so much I want to ride that ride again!" (?)

[@dierotewand3297]

applause between movements are so irritating.

[@dominoplay3712]

y stop being a snob

[@timothyw7742]

Those uncultured heathens, grrr much irritate

[@orangewedges]

Then you wouldn't have liked classical music concerts back only a mere hundred years ago when people were fully allowed to eat, laugh, talk, sing, dance and *gasp* clap during a performance. It's just arbitrary rules so don't get your panties in a twist.

[@smudger671]

die rot Wand : I agree with you.

[@Offmedication]

Impeach Donald J. Trump.

[@mactek6033]

For what?

[@deeoni8614]

You are a shallow and certainly undereducated sycophant.

[@deeoni8614]

Save your crap for the airhead liberals. It doesn't belong on this heavenly place.

[@deeoni8614]

Donald J. Trump has done more good for this country than the last 10 presidents combined.

[@me321ish]

@@deeoni8614 fuck off

[@benchenchiang8616]

Abusive sound?

[@AChernavsky]

what a luck to be there ❤‍🩹

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Monotonous