(As it happens, Adams will get another chance in the not-too-distant future: ‘City Noir’ will be performed again during the philharmonic’s ‘West Coast, Left Coast’ festival celebrating ...

John Adams ’ City Noir, which he describes as the score for an imaginary Hollywood film, is an odd work for a composer who famously refuses to write scores for Hollywood films.

Composed in 2009 for the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel (who will become the Philharmonic’s music director in 2026) at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, “City Noir” is a book of postcards flipped ...

St. Louis' globally renowned ensemble is up for two Grammys centered on its Nonesuch Records recording of John Adams' City Noir, a piece about Los Angeles in the '40s and '50s that the composer ...

John Adams: City Noir Stephen Johnson explores the dark, jazz-inflected world of John Adams's orchestral paean to the film noir, and post-war Hollywood. Show more Available now 20 minutes ...

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The orchestra's recording of John Adams' "City Noir" took home the Grammy Sunday for best orchestral performance. The orchestra has won seven Grammys, but this was the first since 1991.

Has John Adams gone soft? No: judging by City Noir, a 35-minute symphonic soundscape, he has simply expanded the vocabulary of American music, combining the Californian film industry’s polyglot ...