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John Adams is a particular specialty; Dudamel was the first to record his oratorio “The Gospel According to the Other Mary” and has led older pieces including “Grand Pianola Music.”

Adams was most brazenly idiosyncratic, and surprising, in his 1982 work “Grand Pianola Music,” which begins in comfortable, Minimalist territory before giving way to a cascading excess and a sweeping melody both familiar and unplaceable.

Both of these surreal episodes contributed to Adams’s eclectic and playful “Grand Pianola Music.”

Once booed, “Grand Pianola Music” is now wildly cheered.

Phil, I’m doing with an old piece of mine, “Grand Pianola Music.”