In this program, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich honor one of the most important composers of our time with works from different periods and with a wide range of references, autobiographical or typically American. John Adams has assimilated numerous musical influences, and his personal style cannot be reduced to any one of them: he is neither minimalist, nor postminimalist, nor neoromanticist. Of course, some of his works can be said to belong to one of these movements, but he does not consider himself a representative of any particular movement. When he refers to musical traditions in his works, it is always in a critical manner and at the same time open to the influences of pop music, rock and jazz.
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