Adam Tendler: Inheritances
Adam Tendler and Inheritances: exploring loss and love through music
When classical pianist Adam Tendler received a surprise inheritance from his father he used it to commission 16 original works of music to explore the complexity of grief, loss, and inheritance. After each performance of the resulting program, Inheritances, he was struck by the way that the audience stayed in their seats, talking to each other. "This is something I've never seen before after a recital or any kind of classical music concert where people are just talking to each other about what just happened. Usually they just make a beeline for the door. And that's exactly what I wanted because I didn't want a program that was going to be so specific about my life and my experience and my father. I really wanted something as abstract and universal that people could just come to it and just enter it at wherever they needed to."
Join us for a conversation about Adam's program, Inheritances, and his reflections about why he commissioned the work, how envisioning it and performing it helped him to understand his loss, and how the composers and audiences have responded with such intense connection to its universal themes.
To find out more about Adam's work, go to http://adamtendler.com/
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