{"product_id":"9780374276324","title":"Thomas Adès: Full of Noises : Conversations with Tom Service","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Adès: Full of Noises\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Thomas Adès, Tom Service\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposer, conductor, and pianist, Thomas Adès is one of the most diversely talented musical figures of his generation. His music is performed by great opera companies, symphony orchestras, chamber groups, and music festivals throughout the world. But Adès has resisted public discussion of the creative process behind his musical compositions. Until now, the interior experience that has fired the spectrum of his work—from his first opera, \u003ci\u003ePowder Her Face\u003c\/i\u003e, to his masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eand his acclaimed orchestral works \u003ci\u003eAsyla \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTevot\u003c\/i\u003e—has largely remained unexplained. Here, in spirited, intimate, and, at times, contentious conversations with the distinguished music critic Tom Service, Adès opens up about his work. \"For Adès, whose literary and artistic sensibilities are nearly as refined and virtuosic as his musical instincts,\" writes Service, \"inhabiting the different territory of words rather than notes offers a chance to search out new creative correspondences, to open doors—a phrase he often uses—into new ways of thinking in and about music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phrase \"full of noises,\" from Caliban's speech in \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, refers both to the sounds \"swirling around\" Adès's head that are transmuted into music and to the vast array of his musical influences—from Sephardic folk music, to 1980s electronica, to Adès's passion for Beethoven and Janácek and his equally visceral \u003ci\u003edislike \u003c\/i\u003eof Wagner. It also suggests \"the creative friction\" essential to any authentic dialogue. As readers of these \"wilfully brilliant\" conversations will quickly discover, \u003ci\u003eThomas Adès: Full of Noises \u003c\/i\u003ebrings us into the \"revelatory kaleidoscope\" of Adès's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Energetic, honest, and warm, these conversations between friends reveal the intricacies of the creative process and a deep and abiding love of music.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Traverse[s] much of the geography of classical music, then and now . . . Arresting and memorable.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThomas Adès: Full of Noises \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant self-analytical plunge into the mind of one of our greatest artists, the composer Thomas Adès, for whom composing begins with musical notes slipping and sliding across a sheet of paper with a will of their own, and writing an opera feels like swimming alone in a deep ocean. This book is a probing guide to the creative process, as virtuosic in its way as one of Adès's musical compositions.” —Peter Gelb, general manager, Metropolitan Opera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Adès] has outgrown his status as the wunderkind of a vibrant British scene and become one of the most imposing figures in contemporary classical music” —\u003ci\u003eAlex Ross, The New Yorke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Adès] is one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation.” —\u003ci\u003eAnthony Tommasini, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Even as the UK is brimming with wonderful young composers, I think few would dispute that Tom Adès may be the most extravagantly gifted of them all.” —\u003ci\u003eSir Simon Rattle, Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374276324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40594823971022,"sku":"9780374276324","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_117a1ee0-bd86-44c6-84a2-b00911c3191c.jpg?v=1637819159","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374276324","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}