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John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at the age of ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New England, especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard University, helped shape him as an artist and thinker. After earning two degrees from Harvard University, he moved to Northern California in 1971 and has ever since lived in the San Francisco Bay area.
Adams taught for ten years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before becoming Composer in Residence with the San Franicisco Symphony (1982-85) and the creator of the orchestra’s highly successful and controversial “New and Unusual Music” series. Several of Adams’s landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985) and El Dorado (1992).
His well-known operas include ‘Nixon in China’ (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China 1972, and ‘Doctor Atomic’ (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
Adams taught for ten years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before becoming Composer in Residence with the San Franicisco Symphony (1982-85) and the creator of the orchestra’s highly successful and controversial “New and Unusual Music” series. Several of Adams’s landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985) and El Dorado (1992).
His well-known operas include ‘Nixon in China’ (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China 1972, and ‘Doctor Atomic’ (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
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gEEEERa wrote:
nixon in china FTW
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OSaCanUC wrote:
Hey! Check out the new group: "John Adams"! Join if you like! :o)
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Phrygian Gates.
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Gamester wrote:
Hey! Care to join the new "American Classical Music" group? Check it out and join if you like! :o)
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johntardsbaby66 wrote:
mr. president
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rm508 wrote:
Yeah, brilliant opera. Man's in top form. I kind of agree about Kitty, though, and I wasn't sold on the Tewa indians either.
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jsaffery wrote:
i love John Adams. i saw Doctor Atomic in London and it was amazing, but they could've completely cute out Kitty Oppenheimer, she was boring and odd.
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Note360 wrote:
John Adams is great. I want to see Doctor Atomic, but i will jsut have to settle for watching the dvd I bought
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y2penni wrote:
last night i saw Doctor Atomic... i was literally blown away. An utterly brilliant masterpiece.
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THEMARioSVOLTA wrote:
I'm a composition student and john adams is one of my biggest influences. it would be cool if you checked out my music. www.last.fm/music/mario+godoy
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_Allister_ wrote:
Yes, Kiev loveth John Adams. Thanks for Sid Meyer and Civilization 4 Modern Age Soundtrack
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Futin wrote:
@shing exactly! after entering the modern era for the first time I was instantly hooked on this music!
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heaventree22 wrote:
tonight i discovered his "shaker loops": just wonderful!
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phillip360 wrote:
anyone for Vertical Music?
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shing wrote:
Yes! Thankyou Civ4 for tuning me into eternity; the music of John Adams!
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pumpkinsitter wrote:
Bravo, I can't help but to think of Civilization IV when I hear this, its plastered all over it.
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lastard wrote:
when is a doctor atomic recording coming out? :D
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KraeheK wrote:
Pitchfork is retarded enough commenting on pop music let alone things that require more to get into than a specific style of haircut.
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Chetyre wrote:
I'm playing an arrangement of Lollapalooza at my next band concert--I'm so excited!
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Doctor Atomic Symphony (UK premiere)
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City Noir (European premiere)
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London Symphony Orchestra
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Returning to the city from the north woods, we decide to spend a rainy Friday evening going to an early movie and then on to a favorite bistro on Shattuck Avenue. …
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