Scene after scene glows with strange energy,” and the New York Times, which called the score, “Mr. It has been critically praised by, among others, The New Yorker, which called its score “not only ominous score also uncommonly beautiful. Robert Oppenheimer his wife Kitty Edward Teller and General Leslie Groves, the US Army commander of the project. The focal characters are the physicist and Manhattan Project director, Dr. The opera concerns the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July of 1945. Louis Post-Dispatch: “It was like being a filmmaker, with cans and cans of footage I’d shot, and I had to edit it in a meaningful way.”ĭoctor Atomic is the fifth work for the stage that Adams and his longtime collaborator Peter Sellars created. Creating a symphony from a three-hour opera proved to be no small task, as Adams told the St. David Robertson conducts the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra on this recording, which is his first CD with the ensemble.ĭoctor Atomic Symphony’s three movements include music from the opera’s overture the Act II “panic” music the “military matters” sections from Act I and an orchestral setting of Robert Oppenheimer’s signature “Batter My Heart” aria that closes Act I of the opera. This is the premiere recording of both works. Also on the album is Adams’ 2001 piece, Guide to Strange Places. A purely instrumental work, the piece is drawn from Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic. Nonesuch released Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony on July 28, 2009. "An adaptation of several extended sections ," wrote the New York Times, "the score invites you to hear the music-driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares-on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context."
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