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John Adams is a composer from Canada whose career began in 1973. He has produced 23 works, including *Sonata for cello and piano*, *Doctor Atomic*, *The Dharma at Big Sur*, *Nixon in China*, and *A volume of friendship, reprinted from the calendar of friendship*. His music is categorized under contemporary classical, minimalism, Classical, and Avant-Garde genres.
Adams has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection. His official website is earbox.com. On Last.fm, he has 351,853 listeners and 2,576,221 plays. He is also referenced by 898 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1947-02-15
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Sonata for cello and piano
- Doctor Atomic ...
- The Dharma at Big Sur
- Nixon in China
- A volume of friendship, reprinted from the calendar of friendship
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 351,853
- Total plays
- 2,576,221
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There are multiple artists with this name. Following are listed in order of prominence. (1) 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 Eng
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,297x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,530x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,118x
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Quotes
- “Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
- “No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.”
- “Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. ... What a Eutopia — What a Paradise would this region be!”
- “Tis impossible to judge with much Precision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”
- “A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”
- “The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1947-02-15 ) February 15, 1947 (age 79) , Worcester, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University
- Occupations
- Composer conductor
- Notable work
- List of compositions
- Spouse
- Deborah O'Grady
- Awards
- Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1995) Pulitzer Prize for Music (2003) Erasmus Prize (2019)
- Website
- earbox .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Worcester
- Occupation
- librettist
- Educated at
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music
- Employer
- Carnegie Hall
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Harmonielehre
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Nonesuch Records
- Official website
- www.earbox.com
- Image
- JA-portrait-1-LW.jpg
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- Commons gallery
- John Coolidge Adams
- Commons category
- John Coolidge Adams
- date of birth
- 1947-01-01
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- social media followers
- 16055
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- related category
- Category:Compositions by John Adams (composer)
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Music
- P12674
- Julian Musiol
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, many of which center around historical events. Apart from opera, his oeuvre includes orchestral, concertante, vocal, choral, chamber, electroacoustic, and piano music.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Adams grew up in a musical family and was exposed to classical music, jazz, musical theatre, and rock music. He attended Harvard University, studying with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, and David Del Tredici, among others. His earliest work was aligned with modernist music, but he began to disagree with its tenets upon reading John Cage's Silence: Lectures and Writings. Teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Adams developed a minimalist aesthetic first fully realized in Phrygian Gates (1977) and later in the string septet Shaker Loops. Adams became increasingly active in San Francisco's contemporary music scene, and his orchestral works Harmonium (1980–1981) and Harmonielehre (1985) first gained him national attention. Other popular works from this time include the fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) and the orchestral work El Dorado (1991).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.