The financial news about Tower Records is not promising and when I visited the Classical Annex in San Francisco on Sunday, although it was still open, the building had a For Lease sign.
Here's hoping the Emanuele Arciuli and Gloria Coates CDs weren't my last Tower purchase. And it makes me want to increase my monthly Amoeba Records donation...
Philip Glass on the piano music of John Adams:
John Adams has become one of the best known and admired composers in today's concert music. He has achieved this renown through his widely performed operas, oratorios and symphonic music and is considered by now a true master of the modern orchestra. It may come, therefore, as a surprise to some listeners who come across his piano music for the first time. As it turns out, his piano music is equally evocative -- exploting fully the sonorities and range of the modern concert piano. Far from being adaptations of instrumental work, they represent new sensibilities for the piano on it's own terms -- in turn refreshing, playful and sensual.
That was a quote from the liner notes written by Glass for a CD by the pianist Bruce Brubaker on Arabesque Records. The CD has music of John Adams (Phrygian Gates, Pat's Aria from Nixon in China, China Gates) and Alvin Curran (Endangered Species, Inner Cities I).
Brubaker's previous CD has music by Cage and Glass.
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