John Adams - Shaker Loops - JACK Quartet + Friends

[@Walker-ld3dn]

This is SO fabulous. Why isn't Adams more popular with the public? I suppose people said this about Mozart, Berg, Stravinsky, etc. in their times as well. Lovely. Wonderful.

[@klausbaden]

He is one of the most famous composers in the whole world. That’s not bad!

[@ProfessorPille]

This piece came from a wonderful time in 20th Century music. A group of composers were creating new, fresh, and largely uplifting music. I'm glad I lived through that era.

[@GailMartin]

Fabulous!

[@rosecpiotr8204]

Ethereal and well tempered. I can't stop listening.

[@frkalleidoscope4915]

I just learned a new word: Ethereal. Thx. It fits perfertly this minimalistic Quartet + good friends.

[@MrInterestingthings]

NO MATTER how many times we hear this it's always memorable , full of SURPRISES and a great experience ! Each of the really famous earlier minimalists is really a world of their own .

[@muslit]

To each his own. It's a big bore to me.

[@GlenTindal]

This is a masterpiece. One of my favorites of John Adams.

[@GailMartin]

Heavenly! Galactic!

[@CalvinSMoore]

Just amazing. I've loved this piece for years, this is my first listen to your performance. It's like black and white, this is the best interpretation and in my case recording, I've ever heard. Phenomenal, as usual, what's left to say? Great work.

[@VolkanBass]

Thank you @CalvinSMoore!

[@danielleizorovici5402]

comme souvent, un final paroxystique et hypnotique. grandiose !

[@bufboston1]

This is really lovely.

[@milkmanswife93696]

the accelerandos. my god. what a composition and what a performance.

[@scruffycritter]

So uniquely beautiful and so well performed!

[@conraddean6510]

I watched the Liegeti quartet in Sheffield this year and they mentioned this group. I did not expect to hear this! Truly fantastic

[@VolkanBass]

Thank you @conraddean6510

[@Specialtrai]

Una obra maestra del gran John Adams. Una interpretación excelente, con molto sentimento...

[@VolkanBass]

¡Gracias! @Specialtrai

[@olena_chuba]

This music rubbed a hole in my brain.

[@robhaskins]

Oh gosh, I just found this. I will listen tomorrow and comment. :)

[@jean-louisphelut-ribery8294]

Tout à fait remarquable. Encore plus réussi qu'avec un orhestre d'une vingtaine de musiciens! MERCI!

[@rhythmfield]

Superb, heartfelt, just terrific - fine job on the bass, too, Volkan.

[@GailMartin]

A fabulous double bassist!

[@VolkanBass]

Thank you @rhythmfield

[@VolkanBass]

Thank you! @@GailMartin

[@solowinterwolf]

My favorite lullaby . . .

[@eddiegalon3714]

so cool to watch this great piece being played. Must be very difficult.

[@edw4rdek]

Excellent job guys. Gretings from Czechia

[@balkanspeak6573]

The international of music...That's the way it's supposed to be. And it's supposed to even protect us from war and such. Will it, when the s... hits the fan? Or Greenland threatens to change hands?

[@balkanspeak6573]

But then again: Why Greenland, it's cold (and beautiful, no doubt)? England anybody, an island, too? And we (no longer on the Balkans, more NNW from there), tried it before (laugh). Truly sorry guys, sick joke. But fitting with a sick president

[@TimoVee]

Superb!

[@gametheus1306]

Man, I can't believe I've neglected to listen to this until now! It's like the melodies are found less in the groundings of pitch and more in rhythm and dynamics, with the harmonies forming overarching musical ideas. I love it, and it certainly gives me more to think about in my compositions.

[@balkanspeak6573]

He sure is inspiring...Good luck with your's...

[@martindahlstrom-heuser5923]

I find the passage starting at 15:23 extremely touching.

[@oscarguzman39]

Awesome, wonderful, innovative, very difficult to play.

[@HenJack-vl5cb]

So good!!!

[@Synapsenkitzler]

my soul gets goosebumps. that was good. thanks to all.

[@balkanspeak6573]

Synapsen..., love your name !

[@MuseDuCafe]

Bravo!

[@zasterheffor]

Chills!

[@louisdeschenes1416]

Très réussi! Bravo guys!

[@annetteheintzenberg5623]

COOL!!!!!

[@mysticmouse7261]

Music minimalist and immortal

[@Bogdan0173]

Outstanding !

[@balkanspeak6573]

Da...Ce dimineata frumoasa...

[@timothyw7742]

I love the cough solo at 15:04 🤣

[@hemi969]

Pretty good string band.

[@mariosanchez200]

¡ magnifico !

[@teresamadrid1520]

Genial!!!!

[@StopmotionStudios13]

Damn looking back now 6:42 really sounds like oppenheimer. Right before the bomb goes of. Ludwig's (the film composer) wife is a violinist. Big change they got inspired by this piece.

[@singtheenergyoflife]

fabulous

[@VolkanBass]

Thank you!

[@balkanspeak6573]

@@VolkanBass You are not exactly an Iowan, are you? But no doubt a great musician...Fabulous rendition, thank you...

[@tomtriffid]

It does seem rather daring to have a quartet consisting of six performers, though it works a kind of violence with the language. Still, it absolutely has the "feel" of a quartet -- and it's astonishing in what it achieves.

[@balkanspeak6573]

Linguists in music...I LOVE IT...

[@veronikaende3829]

Super.😁

[@timothyw7742]

7:05 reminds me of an old swing set creaking

[@balkanspeak6573]

What a poetic soul...You took me there, too, in this way...

[@zebulinshelton760]

The fact this only has 10.5k views tell me all I need to know about the state of humanity. :/

[@reginaldmolethrasher437]

Don't be ridiculous. Very insulting of you. The fact that many people aren't moved by this kind of music does not mean that they are spiritually lost (being the implication of your loftily contemptuous remark). To many, this music is nothing more than a vaguely intriguing noise - complex, technically demanding no doubt, but in many ways very hard to distinguish from mere sound effects. For many - I'd say the overwhelming majority - much modern classical music, and much modern art generally, is technically fascinating but emotionally meaningless. 'Shaker Loops' will be no exception to those people. The applause at the end of this piece says it all. Not what you'd finish off the Proms with, is it. The "state of humanity" indeed.

[@lepistanuda]

ur both wrong and dickheads

[@reginaldmolethrasher437]

Very sophisticated of you.

[@tomtriffid]

If it is really true that "many people aren't moved by this kind of music," that says considerably more about them than it does about the music. No one can be moved by the music they listen to but do not really hear.

[@balkanspeak6573]

@@reginaldmolethrasher437 give Zebulin a break. I get your point, but you may not get, that his words could have even pointed the other way...An Zeb, it's rather hard to read the state of humanity from ANY k's...Especially if you keep in mind that Beethoven has been "pushed" (rightly so, I;d say) for 200 years (that adds many k's, no doubt), Adams for 10 NOT pushed...What is fact and what is marketing? It gets blurry...

[@eddiegalon3714]

I keep thinking of James Lipton of The Actors Studio looking at the bass player lol.

[@batuhanuzgoren]

Tebrik ederim!

[@balkanspeak6573]

Great in any language. TR?

[@frkalleidoscope4915]

very Like

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice

[@victoriamiskolczy6336]

Incredibly compelling music, must be very difficult without a conductor!

[@klausbaden]

Not really. Beethoven‘s late quartets are much more difficult. Think of Great Fugue op. 130!

[@anvilgames2421]

5:00

[@louthewatcher]

wouldn't it technically be a septet?

[@noahgoulet5409]

The JACK quartet is its own ensemble. This video shows the piece being performed by the JACK quartet along with other musicians.

[@johnflood-paddock1291]

louthewatcher says quartet + 3

[@MissEighties]

RIGHT?? thank you hahaha

[@laliquevonswarowski]

String quartet --> Vilin, Viola, Cello, Bass

[@eddiegalon3714]

obviously not technically

[@표현의자유-f1p]

New age genre?

[@cobblestonegenerator]

Its minimalism and extremely modern. The composer is still alive today.

[@GeekOverdose]

Oh well, this is is my homework now :(((((

[@balkanspeak6573]

Yesss...

[@zKatari]

how is it a quartet if there is 7

[@erikavega7652]

because: JACK Quartet + Friends

[@zKatari]

Erika Vega rightttt my bad lol

[@guscairns1]

When they really get going at about 20:00 it makes me think about how close religious and sexual ecstasy are to each other...

[@balkanspeak6573]

I bow to you, maestro...Yes?...

[@wandtpag]

Civ IV brought me here

[@jeffzhang806]

wow, same!

[@DangLao]

Do you mean CIV5? heh heh :D

[@표현의자유-f1p]

I found this song at dealing stealth bomber

[@balkanspeak6573]

@@표현의자유-f1p that's interesting...and opaque...You care to elaborate? Make us all laugh !

[@balkanspeak6573]

Civ IV?

[@puffin51]

People say they enjoy this. Or at least, many do. I have to believe them, which must mean that there's a piece of my head missing, because for me this is so tedious I find myself preferring tinnitus.

[@tomtriffid]

I think it's Mr. Adams's attempt to extend the sounds these string instruments can achieve; and a good part of his point is to suggest how very possible it is to make them seem like different musical instruments altogether. Additionally, he loves the idea of moving from one remarkable musical idea to another in a way that can make for dramatic change almost before the listener has noticed. This takes an extraordinary talent for gradualism. Respectfully, I suggest that if you find the music "tedious" you're not in fact really hearing it for what it reaches for -- and most often, achieves.

[@cobrastriesand7693]

Try having a glass of wine, or toke of pot (if you don't have substance abuse issues), or listening before you fall asleep. I heard it a couple times over the years and thought it sounded like minimalist cliches, but I went back to last week for whatever reason, it suddenly clicked.

[@balkanspeak6573]

Have fun...And, when free of it, try again...Sometimes it takes more than 1 try (I can tell you, at 61 yr age)

[@balkanspeak6573]

@@cobrastriesand7693 yep

[@charlesbarry971]

Minimalism at its best.

[@muslit]

Crescendos, diminuendos, sudden changes of dynamics, changes of textures, changes of harmonies, are not enough to sustain a 30 minute piece of music. An insult to one's intelligence.

[@muslit]

No melody.

[@jslasher1]

Not quite as boring as Steve Reich, but, then, nothing else is.

[@balkanspeak6573]

Boring...Listen , guy !

[@carolestroud7026]

horrible snobby screeches