Produced by Gavin Chuck

Chamber Symphony was recorded at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Son of Chamber Symphony was recorded at the Missouri Theatre, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Erin Lesser flute, piccolo

Christa Robinson oboe
Bill Kalinkos clarinet
Elisabeth Stimpert clarinet, bass clarinet
Michael Harley bassoon
Gina Cuffari contrabassoon (on Chamber Symphony)
Matt Marks horn
Jason Price trumpet
Michael Clayville trombone
Christopher Thompson percussion
Matthew Smallcomb percussion (on Son of Chamber Symphony)
John Orfe piano, synthesizer
Courtney Orlando violin (on Chamber Symphony), violin 2 (on Son of Chamber Symphony)
Caleb Burhans viola (on Chamber Symphony), violin 1 (on Son of Chamber Symphony)
Nadia Sirota viola (on Son of Chamber Symphony)
Stefan Freund cello
Miles Brown double bass

Alan Pierson conductor

LINER NOTE
by Gavin Chuck

This is not a liner note.* Its a note about liner notes.

The problem with liner notes: they just sit there, on the page, totally separate from the music theyre talking
about. And if they did talk, theyd be lectures.

Splitting Adams does not separate stories about the music from the music itself. Instead of lecture-like liner
notes on the page, were having an on-the-album conversation with you about the music of John Adams
while we play the music of John Adams. Weve madeactually, weve composed the conversation to immerse
us in Chamber Symphony and Son of Chamber Symphony. Through recorded interviews with the composer,
performers, and a historian, we tell the story of the creation of these two seminal works, and of the struggle
required to perform them. Then we perform them.

The trajectory from Chamber Symphony to Son of Chamber Symphony is perfect for this kind of total-immersion
illumination. We hear John Adams rethinking his approach to composition, and we hear him reflecting on the
journey he has made. Along the way, he pulls unexpected inspirations together and pulls Alarm Will Sound
into his story. Its a story just right for the podcast-plus-performance album weve created here.

Splitting Adams is conceived and realized by Nadia Sirota, Alex Overington and Alan Pierson, the creative forces
behind Alarm Will Sound and New York Public Radios Peabody Award-winning podcast Meet the Composer.
* A conventional liner note might start like this:
John Adams composed Chamber Symphony in 1992 as a commission from the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. The piece requires one
of each orchestral instrument, recalling Schoenbergs op. 9 work of the same name and similar instrumentation. Indeed, Adams was inspired by
Schoenberg to write a work that was both symphonic in color while being as flexible as chamber music. Fifteen years after writing the original
Chamber Symphony, Adams composed a sequel, called Son of Chamber Symphony, for Alarm Will Sound, etc.
Podcasts written by Nadia Sirota, Alan Pierson and Alexander Overington.

Nadia Sirota host, producer, Meet the Composer

Alexander Overington mixing, sound design, producer, Meet the Composer
Alex Ambrose executive producer, Meet the Composer

Meet the Composer would like to thankMeade Bernard, Hannis Brown, Curtis Robert Macdonald,
Carol Ann Cheung and Jon Hanrahan.
Alarm Will Sound would like to thank the Mizzou International Composers Festival.

Jonathan Duckworth recording engineer and editor on Chamber Symphony

Rob Boullion recording engineer on Son of Chamber Symphony
Jeanne Velonis editor on Son of Chamber Symphony
Daniel Neumann mixing engineer
Valgeir Sigursson mastering engineer

Executive producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
Label manager: Bill Murphy
Cantaloupe sales manager: Adam Cuthbert
Art direction: John Brown @ cloud chamber
 1 On Chamber Symphony 17:17
2 Chamber Symphony mvt. 1 (Mongrel Airs) 7:11
3 Chamber Symphony mvt. 2 (Aria with Walking Bass) 8:23
4 Chamber Symphony mvt. 3 (Roadrunner) 6:04
5 On Son of Chamber Symphony 15:46
6 Son of Chamber Symphony mvt. 1 8:00
7 Son of Chamber Symphony mvt. 2 7:12
8 Son of Chamber Symphony mvt. 3 6:31

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and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling and breathtakingly beautiful music today. At the
convergence of interview, music and sound design, Meet the Composer aims to show the listener who the composer is as a person, as a thinker
and as an artist. You can subscribe to Meet the Composer on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
 Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson, conductor
1 On Chamber Symphony

2-4 Chamber Symphony

Mongrel Airs
Aria with Walking Bass
Roadrunner

5 On Son of Chamber Symphony

6-8 Son of Chamber Symphony

Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3

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