Home / Music / John Adams wrote Shaker Loops for string septet in 1978Music linernotes album music john-adamsJohn Adams wrote Shaker Loops for string septet in 1978Shaker Loops was composed by John Adams in 1978, originally written for string septet. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesJohn Adams' Shaker Loops runs through four movements that tell you exactly what kind of piece this is.Shaker Loops plays on both trembling strings and Shaker dancingShaker Loops began as Wavemaker, inspired by water ripplesShaker Loops' string orchestra version debuted in April 1983 at Alice Tully HallEinstein on the Beach runs roughly five hours — Glass's first, longest, and most famous operaExploreJimmy Smith revolutionized the Hammond B-3 on Midnight SpecialSoup for Tony is the act behind Tony the TigerEric Clapton's Trouble in MindJoe Satriani's Unplugged and SeatedVic Chesnutt's West of RomePrevious John Adams' Shaker Loops runs through four movements that tell you exactly what kind of piece this is.Next Hugh Padgham co-produced Ghost in the Machine with The Police
