Multibuy Opens for Current 12+ Bookers: 10am Monday 24 March 2025 (12+ Multibuy bookers for the 2024/25 Season will receive a telephone call from the SCO to arrange their booking for the new Season). Multibuy Opens for Current 4-11 Bookers: 10am Monday 14 Apr 2025 Multibuy Opens for New Bookers: 10am Monday 12 May 2025 Single Concert Tickets On Sale: 10am Monday 19 May 2025 Gnarly Buttons Part of New Dimensions Series ADAMS Shaker Loops ADAMS Gnarly Buttons ADAMS Fearful Symmetries Andrew Manze conductor Maximiliano Martín clarinet Once a self-identifying minimalist, radical US composer John Adams quickly jumped from cool, hypnotic pulsations to red-hot emotion and vast cinematic soundscapes in his colourful, witty music. Experience that thrilling journey in three iconic pieces by this pioneering musician. Minimalist classic Shaker Loops is a rippling soundscape of quivering energy – sometimes frenetic, sometimes meditative, but never less than mesmerisingly beautiful. Mooing cows and ancient Amercian hymns are among the inspirations behind Adams’s zany clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons – played by charismatic SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín – which blends humour and heart in music that spans jazz, pop, folk and the surging repetitions of minimalism. Fearful Symmetries is one of Adams’ boldest and brightest pieces, a high-energy workout of driving rhythms and larger-than-life orchestral sound.