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Description: Fearful Symmetries is very similar in instrumentation to the ensemble for Adams's ballet Nixon in China, with the addition of a keyboard sampler playing sampled percussion sounds, two horns and a bassoon. According to the composer, the music is closely allied with pop and Minimalist rock, and the timbre "mixes the weight and bravura of a big band with the glittering, synthetic sheen of techno pop (samples and synthesizer) and the facility and finesse of a symphony orchestra." The list below includes a score and recordings of Fearful Symmetries, as well as other examples of Adams's work.
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Harmonielehre The chairman dances ; Tromba lontana ; Short ride in a fast machine
by John Adams; Simon Rattle; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
 Musical CD : Dance forms
Language: No Linguistic Content
Publisher: [United States] : EMI Classics, 1994.

Notes:
According to the composer, "The familial resemblance [in Fearful Symmetries] to the opening minutes of The Chairman Dances is unmistakable, but in Fearful Symmetries the gestures are more emphatic and the music is more closely allied to pop and Minimalist
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Nixon in China
by John Adams; Alice Goodman; Mari Opatz; Stephanie Friedman; Marion Dry; Carolann Page; Trudy Ellen Craney; Sanford Sylvan; James Maddalena; Thomas Hammons; John Duykers; Edo de Waart; Orchestra of St. Luke's.
 Musical CD : Operas
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Elektra/Nonesuch, 1988.

Notes:
The instrumentation of this opera by John Adams is nearly identical to that of Fearful Symmetries, including a keyboard sampler playing sampled percussion sounds, two horns and a bassoon.
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The wound-dresser Fearful symmetries
by John Adams; Walt Whitman; Sanford Sylvan; Orchestra of St. Luke's.
 Musical CD : Multiple forms
Language: English
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Elektra Nonesuch, 1989.
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The John Adams earbox
by John Adams; Charles Ives; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.; San Francisco Symphony Chorus.; Orchestra of St. Luke's.; London Sinfonietta.; Opéra de Lyon. Orchestre.; Hallé Orchestra.
 Musical CD
Language: English
Publisher: New York : Nonesuch, 1999.

Notes:
A fantastic collection of John Adams's work. Includes Fearful Symmetries, Nixon in China, and The Chairman Dances, as well as other well known works like Shaker Loops and A Short Ride in a Fast Machine. A must-listen for any Adams fan.
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Fearful symmetries : for orchestra or chamber orchestra
by John Adams
 Musical score
Language: No Linguistic Content
Publisher: [United States] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, [1999], ©1989.
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