Sir Simon Rattle celebrates John Adams

Show & Culture

A concert dedicated to the orchestral genius of John Adams is the ambition here of the London Symphony Orchestra and its eminent conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Whether translating every sense of the word 'frenzy' into music, writing a contemporary oratorio on a text by Peter Sellars revisiting the Passion of Christ, or evoking Richard Wagner and Arnold Schönberg in a tribute to the symphony genre, the soon-to-be octogenarian American composer demonstrates masterful skill.