Adams: Century Rolls
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- Composer: John Adams (1947-)
- Format: Full Score
- Instrumentation: Piano, Orchestra
- Work: Century Rolls
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- Size: 10 x 13 inches
- Pages: 106
Description
This three-movement work was premiered in 1996 by the Cleveland Orchestra, with Emmanuel Ax as soloist. 28-30 minutes. in the composer's words: "The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical." The original inspiration was in the old piano roll music of the 1920s.