John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine - BBC Proms 2014 

conducted this for the first time with my university wind ensemble. most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.

that is some of the best camerawork I've ever seen in a concert TV presentation

I've never heard this piece, and now I want it to be the soundtrack of the life I should have led.

You can easily see who her idol and teacher has been ... She dances as joyful as Bernstein in front op the orchestra. Alsop; beautiful conductor.

Those rim shots get me every time.

"I got a fever, and the only prescription... is MORE WOODBLOCK!"

I will never get enough of this piece

I just listened to an interview with Marin Aslop on "France Culture". She does more than just talk about music, she makes a connection between music and social issues in each era. For her, the music reflects our difficulties. That's why contemporary music sometimes seems "rough". But for her it's inevitable. She thinks that the so-called "contemporary" music will undergo a renewal, because it will accompany the difficulties of our world. I hope I do not distort his words. For me, it's a great lady!

I love how cheerful and FUN this piece is, it's so frenetic and joyous - I love the way the conductor seems to be dancing along! Such a happy burst of volume and wind, love it

She is INTO IT

It'd be so dope if some network decides to use it as its news theme - one can feel its sense of urgency yet still has grandeur in delivery that would be so fitting.

I've listened to this piece by several orchestras but Marin gets it just right!!

Extraordinary! I hear this piece every once in a while on my Public Radio station, and it never fails to give me goosebumps! I have to buy the recording so that I can induce the goosebumps when I need them in the winter to keep me warm!

Played Adams's "The Chairman Dances" with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and then a month later got to see Mr. Adams conduct Short Ride in a Fast Machine with the Cleveland Orchestra. What an experience! The energy Adams brings to orchestral music is unmatched.

As for what I love about this piece: I'm a Brit, but a few years back I drove over the Tioga Pass in Yosemite, though not in a fast sportcar, with the Sierra Nevada unfolding new views round every bend, and the [fluffed] trumpet entry at 3:07 is like when you finally reach the summit and see the vast Nevada desert in front of you...

Got to listen to this for my homework 😂

This is one of the best videos of a symphonic ensemble, period. For one, the audio recording is flawless, despite the absurd complexity of the score. And the camera editing always highlights each of the sections and solo instruments at their best moment! The piece itself is a whirlwind of emotions, beginning with a feeling of happiness and admiration and rapidly escalating to flashes of utter chaos and deep terror, exactly as the title implies - being a passenger in a sports car with a daredevil driver. My love for all this is endless. Brilliant performers and stellar conductor.

How the fuck them woodwind players maintain that arpeggio for like 5 minutes, embrochure on fleek

I love this exciting piece and Marin Alsop is a great conductor. Nice one!

John Adams is a genius. So is Marin Alsop. This is a wonderful performance!

It is rare that percussion gets the leading role in any symphonic piece. It looks like jOhn Adams wanted the entire orchestra out of breath by the end of this fascinating and enjoyable piece. How can anybody sit still and experience this performance?!!

Such a thrilling, electric piece, thrillingly performed here by the incomparable Alsop. Many years ago I was blessed to see Marin Alsop conduct a live orchestral accompaniment to a screening of Chaplin's "City Lights" (in Santa Cruz, California), and it turned out to be one of the peak aesthetic experiences of my whole life.

I looooooooooooove this piece. And Marin is a beast.

Playing this atm and the clarinet part takes so much concentration but wow I love this piece :,)

I saw Marin conduct an amazing youth orchestra yesterday, and they were playing this song! Small world!

Wow, this really captures the soul of the human spirit

Heard this for the first time on our classical music station. Even more enjoyable watching the orchestra performing it and Baltimore's own Marin Alsop conducting........... Well how much better can it get for an old Highlandtown boy.

This piece of music makes my palms sweat, always.

I love this. It's like Copland on speed!

I feel like this would be nice to listen to on a DMT trip. Always felt like the title applied pretty well, and the duration works perfectly.

Absolutely awesome - I get more and more excited about modern classical music every time I listen to this piece - so uplifting!

Brilliant piece of music!

This piece always calms me down, cleans my mind of thought and stress, and gives me the energy I need. Any attempt to thank Maestro Adams is futile.

I had the privilege of playing this in secondary school band. I will always smile remembering those times while listening to this piece 🌝

the conductor’s spunk gives me life

Marin Alsopp was vibing hard to this! Love it!

This maestra, puts a Special spark in my heart.

Her conducting is superb! I love this recording

3:49 "Hang on Trumpets!!"

The first guy playing with the orange drum sticks was on a zoom w my class, hes really funny and nice. His favourite instruments got me crying of laughter

Love this piece by John Adams. So Cool Maestra Marin Alsop!

I love this piece SO DAMN MUCH

A briljant performance of this rarely played modern music and briljantly recorded.

she looks so cool conducting this quintessential american piece

So we marched this piece this last season at my highschool, and I’ll just say that was the hardest 2 mins of a show I’ve ever seen

How exciting! What a tour de force! i love it! Oh how I wish I could play those Timpani!

Great piece of music. I really enjoyed hearing this live at the symphony in the US.

Phenomenal orchestral work! So grateful I got to perform this with The Cadets. 🙏🏼🔥

Wunnerful, wunnerful. I like John Adams music very much, and this orchestra is magnifico, and I take back the things I said about women conductors. She is wunnerful. Thank you all very much. I live in the beautiful city, Oklahoma City. :-)

*NOT ENOUGHT WOODBLOCK... IT NEEDS MORE!*

SUPER .

The music that describes a bright future

wow amazing

I was hooked on this composition from the time unheard it.

Marin the best. Short ride ...Excel work. Thanks JA

Me when I saw this posted in google classroom: JhOn AdAmS?! I know him, that can’t be

mind blown after this performance, so moving

Ms. Alsop you're so incredibly talented. I'm so glad you're sharing this with me!!!!

Thank you. Really a Master ... "Shaker Loops" is another of his great pieces.

Only 800k views and 5k likes in 6 years. This deserves more.

Love this crazy piece

This song is the third movement of my high school’s marching show, and it’s pretty difficult to keep in time, it it seems like it will be interesting when we get better. For reference, the third movement is two and a half of four and a half pages of our music; the entire third page is just A for 1st clarinets.

Lovely Music!

0:57 literally one of the coolest parts

The most exciting peice of music I've heard in a long time.....used to great effect in the TV series "we are who we are"

Fantastic rhythms

Wow! Great filming!!!!!!!

What I suddenly understood is that this is the perfect auditory analogue of a quickie. With a short, dark, younger, spirited one. Such as I've been blessed with. OMFG!

brillant

Tolles Werk! Und von dem Orchester und der großartigen Dirigentin perfekt umgesetzt!!!

The piece is a workout for the conductor and the players. Forgive the brass, it added a touch of rustic charm to the driven piece. Saw this done live by the Pacific Symphony, exciting concert filler.

This work has much energy!

One of the best version

Fabulous composer, i had the great chance to premiere his piano concerto Century Rolls in France in 2014 with the National Orchestra de Lorraine, amazing pieces!

BRAVO!!!!

Já vi a Alsop conduzindo ESTA música! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The Cadets of Bergen County drum corps did a spectacular version of this piece as their opener in 1991.

woah!!! that is INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

W o w!!! That's all I have to say.

I LOVE it!

Awesome performance!

1:54 is the best hemeola in music that I've ever played.

It's astonishing to me that some people are actually blaming the trumpet fluff on Marin's conducting. I've seen various great orchestras play difficult music, and on those similarly rare occasions someone messed up (generally the brass) it wasn't the conductor. It was the player. I've had my _own_ music conducted and recorded and heard the process, and again - mistakes whilst the players refine their understanding of the piece. Musicians don't emerge into the world fully-formed able to play everything on demand, they might have rehearsed this for an hour or so that afternoon or the previous day, and so mistakes happen.

Great performance. She got the right tempo. One minor problem was a trumpet entrance near the end but this is one of the better performances I've heard of this incredibly demanding piece of music.

I will think of this the next time I ride my 1972 Norton Commando 850 motoryccle

Amazing!!

wonderful

A couple of years ago I watched a youtube clip of this piece where someone had made this amazing video like you were on a rollercoaster through the score. It would zoom along the stave and then focus in on important passages. I can't find it anywhere now? Has anyone else seen it?

This is intense

extraordinary!

Beautiful and exciting! :)

So good 👍

Grande esecuzione!

Stunning

I miss watching live concerts!

we're playing this in marching band and it's so hard

Marin is an absolutely superb conductor : she's conducted this particular piece with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and I think it's the best recording to date. She deserves to be Dame Marin, although being an American, this might not be possible - alas. And she doesn't look like Mrs Merkel.

This is by far the sexiest classical piece I know. The woodblock is just ... insistent, shall we say? ;)

Bravooooo!!!

Why is this entire comment section full of "omg she's a women conductor." I have been conducted by women and men, and I'm only on my forth year, so why is it so spectacular for there to be a women conductor?