The Hallé Presents: Adams Conducts The Chairman Dances at The Bridgewater Hall
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The Hallé Presents: Adams Conducts The Chairman Dances
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The final concert in the Hallé’s John Adams Festival finds the composer at his most theatrical.
He’s joined by violinist Leila Josefowicz, for whom he wrote Scheherazade.2 – a symphony that takes the dramatic scope he admired in the Romantic symphonists and channels it into a story of women’s resilience within a patriarchal society. Then comes The Chairman Dances, a satirical ‘foxtrot for orchestra’ that imagines Mao abandoning politics for a surreal turn on the dance floor. And the festival doesn’t just look back; it hears a living composer at work, with the UK premiere of The Rock You Stand On, a Hallé co-commission that invites Manchester audiences to be among the first in the world to hear Adams’s latest music – conducted by the composer himself.
John Adams Scheherazade.2 (47′)
John Adams The Chairman Dances (12′)
John Adams The Rock You Stand On (Hallé Co-Commission / UK Premiere) (9′)
John Adams – Conductor
Leila Josefowicz – Violin
