On the Transmigration of Souls
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Composer: John AdamsConductor: Lorin Maazel
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Nonesuch
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- On the Transmigration of Souls
Music reviews of On the Transmigration of Souls
Music Review: A Temple of Music
Rating: 5 Stars
"On the Transmigration of Souls" is the most stupendously affecting piece of music I've heard in a very long time. It is a profoundly moving testimony that fully confronts the dreadful sorrow and loss of that awful September day. Delicate shifting chords cradle moving voices that read fragments of writings by bereaved survivors. These memorials are periodically transfigured into a numinous collective voice by choir, evoking the shared grief of a nation and world.
The music articulates the full range of emotion provoked by this appalling act of violence, yet goes on. This is itself the deepest statement of Adams's masterpiece, which is unobtrusively indicated by the title and thoughtfully reiterated by the dynamic and flowing voice of the music throughout the piece. That this flow itself enacts the abrupt disjunction of loss suggests a possibility of transcendence that eschews easy answers or denial.
"On the Transmigration of Souls" is a vision of redemption offered to the brokenhearted with the deepest humanity of a sensitive artist at the height of his expressive capabilities.
Description of On the Transmigration of Souls
This is the first recording of Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls (which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in music), by the orchestra and conductor that commissioned and premiered it. Adams grips from the start, with a slow buildup of taped mundane city sounds, the obsessively repeated word "missing" superimposed on them. The taped texts are drawn from fragments found on missing person posters, newspaper memorials, and the names of victims of the 9/11 attack. Sometimes the taped voices dominate; at others, the chorus intones the texts; the orchestra an ever-present commentator, its impressionistic harmonies fulfilling Adams' description of creating a "memory space" where each listener can find a personal response to the events. The orchestra erupts in an overwhelming climax after the words "I wanted to dig him out," managing, in a brief passage, to encompass anger, deep grief, and the enormity of the tragedy. Then it subsides into a long, slow decrescendo overlaid by the quiet recitation of names, as if the souls of the title hover over us. Adams has created music for his time and place that fulfills music's ability to move us. --Dan DavisGeneral CDs
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