Focus on Andriessen
Noon to Midnight festival
Sat / Apr 9, 2022 - 8:00PM
John Adams leads a long-planned tribute to the great Dutch Minimalist with two key works from different periods, as part of Noon to Midnight.
About this Performance
Life (2009) was the first piece Louis Andriessen composed specifically for his friends in the Bang in a Can All-Stars. According to the composer, “[Artist Marijke van Warmerdam and I] decided to make a kind of contemporary Pictures at an Exhibition: short pieces of music to accompany video clips. This resulted in Life—four short compositions which combine late romantic ‘European’ music with hip ‘American’ repetitive music.”
Composed 1972–1976, De Staat was inspired by Plato’s words regarding music and politics. In it, you hear scales and pitches from Indonesian music, as well as influences from early bop and cool jazz. A breakthrough work for Andriessen, De Staat was premiered in Amsterdam and synthesized his characteristic sound world and socio/political concerns with his response to American Minimalism in a powerful work that brought him international recognition.
Your ticket for this concert includes admission to all April 9 Noon to Midnight events
This event is part of our new music marathon, Noon to Midnight. Enjoy mind-expanding sounds from contemporary composers and ensembles, capped by John Adams leading the LA Phil in music by Andriessen. Learn more here.
This performance is generously supported by the Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Fund.
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Event starts at 12:00AM
Why not make it a full day of mind-expanding music? As a ticketholder for our April 9 Focus on Andriessen concert, you have free admission to Noon to Midnight, our annual celebration of new music that takes place across the Walt Disney Concert Hall campus that day.