Thomas Adès: Full of Noises
Composer, conductor, and pianist, Thomas Adès is one of the most diversely talented musical figures of his generation. His music is performed by
great opera companies, symphony orchestras, chamber groups, and music festivals throughout the world. But Adès has resisted public discussion
of the creative process behind his musical compositions. Until now, the interior experience that has fired the spectrum of his work-from his first
opera, Powder Her Face, to his masterpiece The Tempest and his acclaimed orchestral works Asyla and Tevot-has largely
remained unexplained. Here, in spirited, intimate, and, at times, contentious conversations with the distinguished music critic Tom Service, Adès opens
up about his work. "For Adès, whose literary and artistic sensibilities are nearly as refined and virtuosic as his musical instincts," writes Service,
"inhabiting the different territory of words rather than notes offers a chance to search out new creative correspondences, to open doors-a phrase
he often uses-into new ways of thinking in and about music."
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