Naive and Sentimental Music (1999). John Adams

Forager 23 grooves down the highway to Naive and Sentimental Music (as well as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Saint-Saens, Century Rolls, and Lollapalooza [the Adams work, not the festival]).

...first, I listened to John Adams' Naive and Sentimental Music, performed by the L.A. Philharmonic, as I drove south down routes 7 and 22A. The blend of Coplandish Americana and French Romanticism fit perfectly with Vermont's rural sophistication.

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Andrew Clements of the Guardian says Naive and Sentimental Music 's orchestration is "subtle" and "transparent" and from a "visionary."