"John Adams "Shaker Loops""
Steven Streight
digital painting - 15 Inches x 15 Inches
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"Shaker Loops" (1978, revised 1983) is a 28 minute composition for seven solo string instruments by American composer John Adams (b.1947). I was listening to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's version of this work as I made this art specimen. I also have the Ridge Quartet version. "Shaker Loops" is Adams' most performed composition. It has fast galloping sections and slower dreamy sections. At times, it almost sounds like electronic synthesizers are being used, but they are not. I love at one point it sounds like an iron sign is swinging on its hinges, blown by a breeze, very metallic sounds produced by some string instrument.
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