Shaker Loops.MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Can you name one work by John Adams aside from the Declaration of Independence? Oh wait, that was Jefferson. What else did he score? He was, after all, a violinist.
That's an amazing piece of music. Very powerful.
And yes, I have a story about it. When my first child was born, my son, my wife labored for 14 hours. The doctor was going to do something about it, and we didn't want him intervening. It was an all-natural birth; my wife didn't even have so much as an aspirin, because she wanted no drugs or chemicals in the baby. She has a level of determination that is off the charts (hey, she's still married to ME), so she endured it for 14 hours, at which point the doc said "I'm going to my office for some pitocin. We're going to get him out of there." We didn't want him doing that, but I had an idea. I had read that labor is induced by the baby itself, and that his movements would release hormones that accelerate the process. So, I put headphones around her belly and played John Adams' Shaker Loops, with Edo DeWaart and the San Francisco Symphony. I let the entire piece play so as to utilize its gradual build. Then came the tumultuous final section. Almost immediately he started kicking and moving, and in minutes she was in full labor. He was delivered within the next 10 minutes.
Shaker Loops delivered my son.
Shooshie