Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a 1986 orchestral work by John Adams. Adams applies the description " fanfare for orchestra" to this work and to the earlier Tromba Lontana (1986). [1]

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Short Ride in a Fast Machine, orchestral fanfare by American composer John Adams that evokes the excitement-cum-terror of a late-night thrill ride in a sports car.

style of music that is now called minimalism. In it, composers strip their compositions down to the very barest essentials, often focusing on a single rhythm, melody or harmony that only gradual. y changes …

Short Ride in a Fast Machine features the usual minimalist earmarks: repetition, steady beat, and, perhaps most crucially, a harmonic language with an emphasis on consonance unlike anything in …

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Jan 1, 2025 · Composed in 1986, John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a fanfare for an age of streamlined sports cars and space travel. It is an ecstatic musical joyride which, in the words of the …

One of the main elements in this piece is rhythm, in particular the repeated beat played by the woodblock. Note in that section that Adams plays other rhythmic patterns against that beat that shift …

Short Ride in a Fast Machine was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was given its première in 1986, and subsequently has become one the most performed of recent orchestral …

May 1, 2010 · Short Ride in a Fast Machine was composed for the Pittsburgh Symphony as the curtain raiser for a summer festival, “Great Woods.” One of the most powerful early influences on the …