Checking Adams's wikipedia entry, I'm very surprised to learn that Short Ride in a Fast Machine dates only to 1986, less than ten years before I first heard it (and loved it) in a college music appreciation class, as probably the sole example of minimalist work offered us. I had assumed it was older because that was the same day we were played some twelve-tone material. And now I realize why some in the drum corps world thought it was jarringly modernist when the Cadets of Bergen County played it in 1991. It was almost a decade before the activity heard Adams's work again, but since 2000, Short Ride has been played several times, as have "Wild Nights" (from Harmonium), and The Chairman Dances, with several other pieces making an appearance as newer classical music becomes more accepted there.
Learning the recent date of Short Ride's composition also begins to answer the question I was going to ask, on seeing here that more than a dozen classical pieces from 1911 are considered standards: how many works from 2011 will be so considered? Maybe more than I would have first guessed!
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Date: 2010-12-08 07:08 pm (UTC)Learning the recent date of Short Ride's composition also begins to answer the question I was going to ask, on seeing here that more than a dozen classical pieces from 1911 are considered standards: how many works from 2011 will be so considered? Maybe more than I would have first guessed!
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