On the Transmigration of Souls
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Nonesuch
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Hit: 5 Stars
I am not one of those people to praise modern music if it sounds like mindless noise. When I first found this CD, I had already read about it in the AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), and so I went to get it for myself. When I first heard it, I was not sure what to think. I was moved, almost to a point that I felt uncomfortable with, and subsequently put the disc away for over a year. When I finally pulled it out again and gave it another try, I felt though I was in the exact "memory space" John Adams was trying to convey. The music is haunting in a way that is unique to this matter. I am moved by music of all eras, but this piece is very special in how the simple lyrics (the missing persons signs) and the large orchestration collide to form a unique experience. Many people have scoffed at the piece, calling it trash, but those who really give it a try will be more than rewarded for it. I really enjoy this piece.
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This is the first recording of Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls (which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in music), by the orchestra and conductor that commissioned and premiered it. Adams grips from the start, with a slow buildup of taped mundane city sounds, the obsessively repeated word "missing" superimposed on them. The taped texts are drawn from fragments found on missing person posters, newspaper memorials, and the names of victims of the 9/11 attack. Sometimes the taped voices dominate; at others, the chorus intones the texts; the orchestra an ever-present commentator, its impressionistic harmonies fulfilling Adams' description of creating a "memory space" where each listener can find a personal response to the events. The orchestra erupts in an overwhelming climax after the words "I wanted to dig him out," managing, in a brief passage, to encompass anger, deep grief, and the enormity of the tragedy. Then it subsides into a long, slow decrescendo overlaid by the quiet recitation of names, as if the souls of the title hover over us. Adams has created music for his time and place that fulfills music's ability to move us. --Dan DavisClassical Music CDs
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