John Adams - Shaker Loops - JACK Quartet + Friends 

He is one of the most famous composers in the whole world. That’s not bad!

To each his own. It's a big bore to me.

I just learned a new word: Ethereal. Thx. It fits perfertly this minimalistic Quartet + good friends.

Thank you @CalvinSMoore!

Thank you @conraddean6510

¡Gracias! @Specialtrai

A fabulous double bassist!

Thank you @rhythmfield

Thank you! @@GailMartin

Da...Ce dimineata frumoasa...

What a poetic soul...You took me there, too, in this way...

Its minimalism and extremely modern. The composer is still alive today.

The JACK quartet is its own ensemble. This video shows the piece being performed by the JACK quartet along with other musicians.

louthewatcher says quartet + 3

RIGHT?? thank you hahaha

String quartet --> Vilin, Viola, Cello, Bass

obviously not technically

I bow to you, maestro...Yes?...

because: JACK Quartet + Friends

Erika Vega rightttt my bad lol

wow, same!

Do you mean CIV5? heh heh :D

I found this song at dealing stealth bomber

@@user-gi7rf5py1d that's interesting...and opaque...You care to elaborate? Make us all laugh !

Civ IV?

I think it's Mr. Adams's attempt to extend the sounds these string instruments can achieve; and a good part of his point is to suggest how very possible it is to make them seem like different musical instruments altogether. Additionally, he loves the idea of moving from one remarkable musical idea to another in a way that can make for dramatic change almost before the listener has noticed. This takes an extraordinary talent for gradualism. Respectfully, I suggest that if you find the music "tedious" you're not in fact really hearing it for what it reaches for -- and most often, achieves.

Try having a glass of wine, or toke of pot (if you don't have substance abuse issues), or listening before you fall asleep. I heard it a couple times over the years and thought it sounded like minimalist cliches, but I went back to last week for whatever reason, it suddenly clicked.

Have fun...And, when free of it, try again...Sometimes it takes more than 1 try (I can tell you, at 61 yr age)

@@cobrastriesand7693 yep

Boring...Listen , guy !

Synapsen..., love your name !

The international of music...That's the way it's supposed to be. And it's supposed to even protect us from war and such. Will it, when the s... hits the fan? Or Greenland threatens to change hands?

But then again: Why Greenland, it's cold (and beautiful, no doubt)? England anybody, an island, too? And we (no longer on the Balkans, more NNW from there), tried it before (laugh). Truly sorry guys, sick joke. But fitting with a sick president

He sure is inspiring...Good luck with your's...

Linguists in music...I LOVE IT...

Thank you!

@@VolkanBass You are not exactly an Iowan, are you? But no doubt a great musician...Fabulous rendition, thank you...

Great in any language. TR?

Don't be ridiculous. Very insulting of you. The fact that many people aren't moved by this kind of music does not mean that they are spiritually lost (being the implication of your loftily contemptuous remark). To many, this music is nothing more than a vaguely intriguing noise - complex, technically demanding no doubt, but in many ways very hard to distinguish from mere sound effects. For many - I'd say the overwhelming majority - much modern classical music, and much modern art generally, is technically fascinating but emotionally meaningless. 'Shaker Loops' will be no exception to those people. The applause at the end of this piece says it all. Not what you'd finish off the Proms with, is it. The "state of humanity" indeed.

ur both wrong and dickheads

Very sophisticated of you.

If it is really true that "many people aren't moved by this kind of music," that says considerably more about them than it does about the music. No one can be moved by the music they listen to but do not really hear.

@@reginaldmolethrasher437 give Zebulin a break. I get your point, but you may not get, that his words could have even pointed the other way...An Zeb, it's rather hard to read the state of humanity from ANY k's...Especially if you keep in mind that Beethoven has been "pushed" (rightly so, I;d say) for 200 years (that adds many k's, no doubt), Adams for 10 NOT pushed...What is fact and what is marketing? It gets blurry...

Not really. Beethoven‘s late quartets are much more difficult. Think of Great Fugue op. 130!

Yesss...