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Harmonium, by the American composer John Coolidge Adams, is a richly-textured, large-scale work for orchestra and chorus based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson.
Using a coloristic method, Adams's orchestration of Harmonium is triumphantly a primordial experience, celebrating the uses of the major and minor chord. Enamored with the simplicity of subtle shifts in chord structure, repetition, and sonority, Adams conveys musical drama with superior flexibility and control.
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