John Adams conducts the St Lawrence String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra.
Copland's 'Appalachian Spring Suite'; Elliott Carter's Variations for Orchestra; Ives's 'Country Band March'; and John Adams's 'Absolute Jest' for String Quartet and Orchestra.
(The use of quotations from other works is explored in this programme conducted by John Adams: Copland's Appalachian Spring makes use of the Shaker melody Simple Gifts, whilst Ives parodies the performance of a country band using an impressive list of quotations including London Bridge and Yankee Doodle. Adams' own Absolute Jest incorporates more than a half dozen Beethoven fragments, mostly from the late string quartets.)