Judah adashi biography of williams
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“Adashi is…a particularly twenty-first-century type of American composer.
Judah adashi biography of williams
His personal, emotional and earnest music is meant to connect plainly and directly to his audience. Neither self-consciously hip nor ‘Who Cares If You Listen’ difficult, it speaks with unaffected frankness. It is unabashedly sincere.
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The music of composer and pianist Judah Adashi is guided by a belief that the creation and performance of new music can bear witness to injustice, create space for empathy, and serve as a call to action.
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Adashi’s compositions are grounded in the classical tradition and imbued with soul and pop influences ranging from Nina Simone to Björk. Tim Smith of The Baltimore Sun has written: “it’s not easy to straddle genres; Adashi does so with naturalness and expressive impact.” His piece my heart comes undone (2014) has been widely performed, receiving attention from Alex Ross in The New Yorker – “a rapt meditation…in my experience, music has never seem