John Luther Adams ' Always Very Soft for Percussion Trio. Player score. ' I began Always Very Soft in the spring of 1973 and completed it more than three decades later. Originally the piece was scored for percussion trio and de-tuned 'cello. I conducted that version in my final semester at the California Institute of the Arts. In time, I came to regard it as my last student work, and withdrew it from my active catalog. Fast forward thirty-some-odd years to the spring of 2007. For quite some time, I'd had in mind to compose a perpetual acceleration canon - music that seems always to be getting faster, but somehow never really does. As I pondered this I remembered that piece from long ago. So I dug out the old score and looked it over. From my new perspective, it seemed to me that my younger self had been attempting to compose a continuum of discontinuities - weaving disparate timbres and velocities into a subtly articulated whole. This new version of Always Very Soft contains not a single note from the original version. But I hope it conveys a more coherent and essential distillation of that early musical thought. ' - John Luther Adams
| Instrument (fx guitar, sang m.m.) | Percussion(Trio) |
| Genrer (Fx Pop, Rock, Børn m.m.) | Post-1900 |
| Type (fx Instrumentskole o.lign.) | Partitur |
| Sideantal | 20 |
| Media (fx Bog, CD, DVD m.m.) | Noder |
| Publisher/Producent | Taiga Press |
| Bidragydere | Adams, John Luther (Composer) |
| Sprog | Engelsk |