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Eléments biographiques. Compositeur et chef d’orchestre américain né le 1er janvier 1947. Issu d’un milieu musical, John Adams étudie la clarinette et joue dans des fanfares avant de poursuivre sa formation en direction d’orchestre et en composition à l’université d’Harvard (1965-1971), notamment avec Léon Kirchner.
8 apr 2024 · American conductor Marin Alsop has long been a champion of the music of compatriot composer John Adams, with previous recordings of his opera, Nixon in China, plus popular works including Shaker Loops and Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Her latest album for Naxos with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra presents a trio of virtuosic orchestral ...
City Noir. City Noir is a symphonic work by the composer John Adams. A primary inspiration for the piece is the work of historian Kevin Starr on urban California in the late 1940s and early 1950s. [1] The composer characterizes the work as " jazz -inflected symphonic music", citing the French composer Darius Milhaud as originator of this trend. [1]
The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer, edited by Thomas May and published by Amadeus Press, is a 400-page summary of writings about Adams and his music, and the first in-depth anthology of texts dealing with more than 30 years of the composer's creative life. Adams has received countless awards and honorary degrees ...
12 feb 2022 · On February 15, Adams turns 75. However difficult this is to believe, given his bright personality and youthful outlook on the world, the young composer who came to notice in the late 1970s in the ...
In collaboration with music director Edo de Waart, Adams became the new music advisor, and subsequently composer-in-residence, at the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He founded the “New and Unusual Music” series, “introducing major American and European avant-garde composers to San Francisco audiences.” John Adams: Shaker Loops
24 set 2020 · John Adams. Arles, France: Actes-Sud, 2004. In French, this first book-length biography of Adams offers insight into the composer’s music and aesthetic leanings, from Adams’s minimalist beginnings to the operas and Pulitzer Prize–winning commemorative work, On the Transmigration of Souls (2002).
