Thomas Ades: Full of Noises - Hardcover

Ades, Thomas; Service, Tom

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9780571278978: Thomas Ades: Full of Noises

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571278973 ISBN 13: 9780571278978

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2012

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Thomas Ad�s is f�ted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other living composer to connect contemporary music with wider audiences. His operas, orchestral pieces and chamber works have already stood the test of repeated performances, productions and continued critical acclaim.

But this celebrated composer, conductor and pianist is notoriously secretive about his creative process, about what lies behind his compositional impulse. The poetry, technique and biography that fuel his most successful and shattering works, such as his operas Powder Her Face and The Tempest, or his orchestral works Asyla and Tevot, have remained hidden and unexplained. Until now.

In conversation with Tom Service - the writer with whom he has had the closest relationship in his career - Ad�s opens up for the first time about how he creates his music, where it comes from, and what it means. In these provocative and challenging interviews, Ad�s connects his music with influences from a huge historical and cultural spectrum - from Sephardic Jewish folk music to 80s electronica, from the films of Luis Bu�uel and pre-Columbian art to the soundtracks of Al-Qaeda training videos - and offers a unique insight into the crucible of his composition.

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About the Author:

Tom Service writes about music for the Guardian, where he was Chief Classical Music Critic, and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3. He has presented Radio 3's flagship magazine programme, Music Matters, since 2003. He was the inaugural recipient of the ICMP/CIEM Classical Music Critic of the Year Award, and was Guest Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Review:

“Energetic, honest, and warm, these conversations between friends reveal the intricacies of the creative process and a deep and abiding love of music.” ―Publishers Weekly

“Traverse[s] much of the geography of classical music, then and now . . . Arresting and memorable.” ―Kirkus Reviews

“Thomas Ad�s: Full of Noises is a brilliant self-analytical plunge into the mind of one of our greatest artists, the composer Thomas Ad�s, for whom composing begins with musical notes slipping and sliding across a sheet of paper with a will of their own, and writing an opera feels like swimming alone in a deep ocean. This book is a probing guide to the creative process, as virtuosic in its way as one of Ad�s's musical compositions.” ―Peter Gelb, general manager, Metropolitan Opera

“[Ad�s] has outgrown his status as the wunderkind of a vibrant British scene and become one of the most imposing figures in contemporary classical music” ―Alex Ross, The New Yorke

“[Ad�s] is one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation.” ―Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

“Even as the UK is brimming with wonderful young composers, I think few would dispute that Tom Ad�s may be the most extravagantly gifted of them all.” ―Sir Simon Rattle, Gramophone

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