• Cover of the score edition by Boosey & Hawkes. Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a 1986 orchestral work by John Adams.
  • Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a joyfully exuberant piece, brilliantly scored for a large orchestra. The steady marking of a beat is typical of Adams’s music.
  • ORWO is an scratch ensemble which meets twice a year for a day of rehearsals and an informal concert. This arrangement of Short Ride in a Fast Machine is by...
  • Short Ride in a Fast Machine, orchestral fanfare by American composer John Adams that evokes the excitement-cum-terror of a late-night thrill ride in a sports...
  • John Adams is one of the most famous composers in the world. It's estimated that Short Ride in a Fast Machine is performed somewhere in the world at least...
  • John Adams composed his orchestral work Short Ride in a Fast Machine in 1986.
  • John Adams completed Short Ride in a Fast Machine in 1986. He applies the description "fanfare for orchestra" to this work and to the earlier Tromba...
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