John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine - BBC Proms 2014
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conducted this for the first time with my university wind ensemble. most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.
+Harry Rob Hextall You got through it. It's TOUGH to conduct. I don't envy you.
It is definitely the most terrifying thing anyone could conduct. If you did it strictly, you're conducting a hemiola for like half of the fucking song, man. I'd rather conduct all of Rite of Spring than have to do this one.
My orchestra just read the piece for the first time last night (we're performing it soon). Our conductor doesn't switch to 2 until the last two measures of that passage, which is actually a little awkward for us string players who since we ARE playing in 2 for most of it. Thing is, you're conducting a hemiola no matter what, whether you conduct that passage in 2 or 3.
lmao I have NO PLANS to ever hear/see THE RITE OF SPRING ever again. Been there...done that.
andrewhcit
"I got a fever, and the only prescription... is MORE WOODBLOCK!"
+Zion Ravescene "More Woodblock Baby."
MOAAR WOODBLOCK!
Woodblock guy keeps good time, eh?
Edd
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I kinda wonder now what the piece would sound like if we actually substituted the wood block for cow bell. XD
You can easily see who her idol and teacher has been ... She dances as joyful as Bernstein in front op the orchestra. Alsop; beautiful conductor.
Bas Koolenbrander agreed,
I think she was the last person Bernstein taught conducting to.
Great comparison and observation. She is up there with the greats such as Bernstein, von Karajan, Ozawa, Leopold Stowkowski...
@@drewlaw9117 She is! She talks about what it was like in an interview I saw once
Katherynn Hamilton Hello! I sang for her in Bernstein’s Mass, seven or eight years sgo😀 “before she was famous” and she was just brilliant. Hugged pretty much everyone afterwards too. Stay safe, Katherynn
I've never heard this piece, and now I want it to be the soundtrack of the life I should have led.
Well said! LIVE!!!
Checking in 6 years later, hope you started living the life that this is the soundtrack of
@@rylandsmith8552 One still tries one's best.
@@moeskido well said, Mr. One
that is some of the best camerawork I've ever seen in a concert TV presentation
Having to watch quite a handful of BBC proms footage, it is obvious the camerawork was meticulously choreographed.
When the musicians were rehearsing, so were the TV crew members.
Those rim shots get me every time.
those guys know how to do a great rim job
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I just listened to an interview with Marin Aslop on "France Culture". She does more than just talk about music, she makes a connection between music and social issues in each era. For her, the music reflects our difficulties. That's why contemporary music sometimes seems "rough". But for her it's inevitable. She thinks that the so-called "contemporary" music will undergo a renewal, because it will accompany the difficulties of our world. I hope I do not distort his words. For me, it's a great lady!
I will never get enough of this piece
It is rare that percussion gets the leading role in any symphonic piece. It looks like jOhn Adams wanted the entire orchestra out of breath by the end of this fascinating and enjoyable piece. How can anybody sit still and experience this performance?!!
percussion Concertos???
This piece is a fanfare, which features a dominant brass section.
I do!!
Oh, and the percussionist might feel the pressure too. Because just listen to where the nominal clock lands. Often just where you really don't want it to.
I truly wonder how this thing is written on paper. Because the whole assembly is going to be dealing with variable leading pauses, all round. Few mortals can not-play them, in all of their generality.
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Marin the best. Short ride ...Excel work. Thanks JA
It'd be so dope if some network decides to use it as its news theme - one can feel its sense of urgency yet still has grandeur in delivery that would be so fitting.
Shit, this would make an amazing news theme. I can't see it in any other way
This is BBCNN
That would be a terrific idea indeed!
She is INTO IT
You don't get to be music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by pussy-footing it.
@@pauldeck4500 true dat
Extraordinary! I hear this piece every once in a while on my Public Radio station, and it never fails to give me goosebumps! I have to buy the recording so that I can induce the goosebumps when I need them in the winter to keep me warm!
I've listened to this piece by several orchestras but Marin gets it just right!!
I love how cheerful and FUN this piece is, it's so frenetic and joyous - I love the way the conductor seems to be dancing along! Such a happy burst of volume and wind, love it
I love this. It's like Copland on speed!
Played Adams's "The Chairman Dances" with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and then a month later got to see Mr. Adams conduct Short Ride in a Fast Machine with the Cleveland Orchestra. What an experience! The energy Adams brings to orchestral music is unmatched.
As for what I love about this piece: I'm a Brit, but a few years back I drove over the Tioga Pass in Yosemite, though not in a fast sportcar, with the Sierra Nevada unfolding new views round every bend, and the [fluffed] trumpet entry at 3:07 is like when you finally reach the summit and see the vast Nevada desert in front of you...
I love this exciting piece and Marin Alsop is a great conductor. Nice one!
This is one of the best videos of a symphonic ensemble, period. For one, the audio recording is flawless, despite the absurd complexity of the score. And the camera editing always highlights each of the sections and solo instruments at their best moment! The piece itself is a whirlwind of emotions, beginning with a feeling of happiness and admiration and rapidly escalating to flashes of utter chaos and deep terror, exactly as the title implies - being a passenger in a sports car with a daredevil driver. My love for all this is endless. Brilliant performers and stellar conductor.
Got to listen to this for my homework 😂
How are you doing today my name is Bryan cooker
Same I have a test called music memory
@@No-mr7cz okay
@@No-mr7cz so where are you from
How the fuck them woodwind players maintain that arpeggio for like 5 minutes, embrochure on fleek
+Beezee Beats ice packs after the performance :')
that is the most 21st century comment on youtube lol
Mike Beezee It's dovetailed.
Just imagine minimalist symphony e.g. from Steve Reich...they are trained for it.
Full breaths, diaphragm control and hidden breaths. (I have played this before)
Such a thrilling, electric piece, thrillingly performed here by the incomparable Alsop. Many years ago I was blessed to see Marin Alsop conduct a live orchestral accompaniment to a screening of Chaplin's "City Lights" (in Santa Cruz, California), and it turned out to be one of the peak aesthetic experiences of my whole life.
Heard this for the first time on our classical music station. Even more enjoyable watching the orchestra performing it and Baltimore's own Marin Alsop conducting........... Well how much better can it get for an old Highlandtown boy.
she looks so cool conducting this quintessential american piece
This piece always calms me down, cleans my mind of thought and stress, and gives me the energy I need. Any attempt to thank Maestro Adams is futile.
Absolutely awesome - I get more and more excited about modern classical music every time I listen to this piece - so uplifting!
John Adams is a genius. So is Marin Alsop. This is a wonderful performance!
3:49 "Hang on Trumpets!!"
Playing this atm and the clarinet part takes so much concentration but wow I love this piece :,)
I looooooooooooove this piece. And Marin is a beast.
lorem ipsum lol was that really necessary??
lorem ipsum seriously dude. I bet she'd rather people not discuss her personal life via CZcams comments. It's people like you that make the internet such a disappointing place.
Is this necessary?
@@orpheuseclipse4236 no you Bumman445
I saw Marin conduct an amazing youth orchestra yesterday, and they were playing this song! Small world!
This piece of music makes my palms sweat, always.
Wow, this really captures the soul of the human spirit
I feel like this would be nice to listen to on a DMT trip. Always felt like the title applied pretty well, and the duration works perfectly.
This maestra, puts a
Special spark in my
heart.
Brilliant piece of music!
I had the privilege of playing this in secondary school band. I will always smile remembering those times while listening to this piece 🌝
Why is this entire comment section full of "omg she's a women conductor." I have been conducted by women and men, and I'm only on my forth year, so why is it so spectacular for there to be a women conductor?
Well, it's just unusual is all. Most folks go without ever having a woman as their conductor.
@@kenton6804 Rubbish!
@@alisonhargreaves I agree, I think the best conductors I've ever had were women.
From my experience, female conductors get “stuck” in education (not that school/university orchestras can’t be fantastic), while male conductors “make it” to the “professional” world.
@@WilliamFord972 that has been the case but there are 5 or 6 % of conductors now in the USA and Britain that are succeeding in the big time. Much room for improvement . Problem is not Audience but Arts Admin.
The first guy playing with the orange drum sticks was on a zoom w my class, hes really funny and nice. His favourite instruments got me crying of laughter
It's astonishing to me that some people are actually blaming the trumpet fluff on Marin's conducting. I've seen various great orchestras play difficult music, and on those similarly rare occasions someone messed up (generally the brass) it wasn't the conductor. It was the player. I've had my _own_ music conducted and recorded and heard the process, and again - mistakes whilst the players refine their understanding of the piece. Musicians don't emerge into the world fully-formed able to play everything on demand, they might have rehearsed this for an hour or so that afternoon or the previous day, and so mistakes happen.
It's obviously the trumpets who were imprecise. It happens even to the best of 'em. Ciao
Yes, there's a "trumpet fluff" . . . but somehow it really seems just right and "in tune" with the composition.
Wunnerful, wunnerful. I like John Adams music very much, and this orchestra is magnifico, and I take back the things I said about women conductors. She is wunnerful. Thank you all very much. I live in the beautiful city, Oklahoma City. :-)
Love this crazy piece
The theme music of every jet fighter, sportscar, starship.....
So we marched this piece this last season at my highschool, and I’ll just say that was the hardest 2 mins of a show I’ve ever seen
I love this piece SO DAMN MUCH
Phenomenal orchestral work! So grateful I got to perform this with The Cadets. 🙏🏼🔥
Love this piece by John Adams. So Cool Maestra Marin Alsop!
Marin Alsopp was vibing hard to this! Love it!
The piece is a workout for the conductor and the players. Forgive the brass, it added a touch of rustic charm to the driven piece. Saw this done live by the Pacific Symphony, exciting concert filler.
*NOT ENOUGHT WOODBLOCK... IT NEEDS MORE!*
Ooh! A female conductor! You don't see that very often. That's cool!
Marin Alsop is awesome! She is in Baltimore now conducting the BSO.
It's not cool!!! she is bloody awful.
Ew, how dare you! You filthy misogynistic pig!!!
female conductors are more common than male conductors in America, but I assume you must be from a different country
Her recordings of the Brahms symphony cycle with the Philharmonia Orchestra are the best I've heard. (I don't care much for muddy, tempo di comatose performances of Beethoven or Brahms.)
Me when I saw this posted in google classroom:
JhOn AdAmS?! I know him, that can’t be
I thought John Adams did Star wars Stuff, turns out it was John Williams who did Starwars stuff...
@Evan Morgan Why Hello There Evan.
@Rachel, Haha Lol
Maybe John Adams spends the summer with his family?
How exciting! What a tour de force! i love it! Oh how I wish I could play those Timpani!
Only 800k views and 5k likes in 6 years. This deserves more.
A briljant performance of this rarely played modern music and briljantly recorded.
This song is the third movement of my high school’s marching show, and it’s pretty difficult to keep in time, it it seems like it will be interesting when we get better. For reference, the third movement is two and a half of four and a half pages of our music; the entire third page is just A for 1st clarinets.
yeah this is in my schools marching show as well
Me tooo
the conductor’s spunk gives me life
0:57 literally one of the coolest parts
Her conducting is superb! I love this recording
wow amazing
What I suddenly understood is that this is the perfect auditory analogue of a quickie. With a short, dark, younger, spirited one. Such as I've been blessed with. OMFG!
The music that describes a bright future
Tolles Werk! Und von dem Orchester und der großartigen Dirigentin perfekt umgesetzt!!!
Lovely Music!
Fabulous composer, i had the great chance to premiere his piano concerto Century Rolls in France in 2014 with the National Orchestra de Lorraine, amazing pieces!
Já vi a Alsop conduzindo ESTA música! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great piece of music. I really enjoyed hearing this live at the symphony in the US.
The most exciting peice of music I've heard in a long time.....used to great effect in the TV series "we are who we are"
I was suffering from all the modernism "music" in my music textbook, and when this comes up, It surprises me how good it is
I was hooked on this composition from the time unheard it.
Fantastic rhythms
brillant
Great performance. She got the right tempo. One minor problem was a trumpet entrance near the end but this is one of the better performances I've heard of this incredibly demanding piece of music.
I have to disagree about the tempo. Starts a little too fast but doesn't keep the pace. Should maintain tempo throughout.
W o w!!! That's all
I have to say.
Ms. Alsop you're so incredibly talented. I'm so glad you're sharing this with me!!!!
One of the best version
1:54 is the best hemeola in music that I've ever played.
this whole thing is Hemeola: The Score.
I love it.
@Josef OConnor That's the point - the score is chucked with hemiolas in at random points in the score - the beginning is like a 4:3 polyrhythm in the winds, synths and brass, and then there's other points in the score where the rhythms collide over each other. So in summary, the whole score could be considered a hemiola of itself with hemiolas beyond that!
BRAVO!!!!
SUPER .
at 2:55 i swear the violin section are having a group seizure.....
LMAO
Marin is an absolutely superb conductor : she's conducted this particular piece with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and I think it's the best recording to date. She deserves to be Dame Marin, although being an American, this might not be possible - alas. And she doesn't look like Mrs Merkel.
It pleases me greatly that the woodblock player is also playing the bass drum with a kick pedal.
You
Thats how the part is meant to be performed
One mistake from that woodblock guy and the whole piece is toast. I wonder if they had any rehearsals where Marin told him, "Throw in a few clams so we can see if the whole orchestra crashes."
wonderful
Kant philosophy
woah!!! that is INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a good way, of course.
The woman percussionist is totally badass at 1:36
Ha ha 😂
I just love how you can see her counting 😂
haha
The choral conductors in cathedrals conducting both boys and girls choirs will tell you the girls are better with tricky rhythms because they will count!
The percussion player you are referring to I had the great pleasure of working with her a couple of times when the BBC Symphony did a couple of play days inviting amateurs to join in. You are correct she is badass and a lovely person.
The Cadets of Bergen County drum corps did a spectacular version of this piece as their opener in 1991.
SCV also did this in 2001 after their opener. Equally as good!
To be honest, drum and bugle corps has introduced me to a plethora of wonderful music just like this ❤️
A couple of years ago I watched a youtube clip of this piece where someone had made this amazing video like you were on a rollercoaster through the score. It would zoom along the stave and then focus in on important passages. I can't find it anywhere now? Has anyone else seen it?
Simon Walter Are there some "important passages"?
This work has much energy!
This is by far the sexiest classical piece I know. The woodblock is just ... insistent, shall we say? ;)
So good 👍
Wow! Great filming!!!!!!!
Forget cowbell.
This woodblock beat is the sexiest thing ever created.
I LOVE it!
we're playing this in marching band and it's so hard
Andrew Glick what kind of marching band...
high school
Your Teacher is very brave and adventurous. This piece will make you all better musicians.
BaronVonSqueaky Tits so ,,,,, how did it go ???
First time i heard it was in drum corps, Santa Clara Vanguard 1999, great piece, translates to field so well
Love!!! to see a female conductor. there is a heart stopping shortage of women in the arts.
This is intense
I will think of this the next time I ride my 1972 Norton Commando 850 motoryccle
Thank you. Really a Master ... "Shaker Loops" is another of his great pieces.
mind blown after this performance, so moving