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John Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

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John Adams is one of America’s most admired and respected composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has produced works, both operatic and symphonic, that stand out among all contemporary classical music for the depth of their expression, the brilliance of their sound world and the profoundly humanist nature of their themes.

John Coolidge Adams (born in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 15, 1947), was raised in various New England states where he was greatly influenced by New England's musical culture. He graduated from Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire. His father taught him how to play the clarinet, and he was a clarinetist in community ensembles. He later studied the instrument further with Felix Viscuglia, clarinetist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
John Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Harmonielehre (1985), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and Shaker Loops, a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His well-known operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
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minimalistme

I'm wondering if anybody has heard the String Quartet. A friend told me it wasn't anything special. Any second opinions?

December 2009
gsallomi

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Adams before, he is just as fantastic in person as his music suggests.

December 2009
CreditVixen

Adams is fantastic!!!

December 2009
citruscorp

wow this group is actually doing pretty well in terms of people joining if this does excellently i might even create a harrison birtwistle group

October 2009
permanentred

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October 2009
permanentred

Hello John Adams group.

October 2009
minimalistme

the violin concerto will always be special for me

September 2009
citruscorp

also for the record i dont like his new stuff it seems like he's fallen into this routine of trying to reinvent stravinsky

September 2009
citruscorp

i want to have sex with a tree

September 2009