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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. Check our available John Adams concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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Well, this is different. Some have called it "a Passion Play in all but name", other critics "almost an opera", while I'm sure others will see it is an oratorio. It's certainly a fascinating concept, even if a noted critic pointed out that "the other Mary" was in fact the mother of James. Adams and Peter Sellars can be forgiven though, because if you ask people who the "other Mary" is, quite a few would say Mary Magdalene...
- www.classical.net
City Noir was written for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Most of all, it's a homage to how LA was depicted in the cinema of the 1940s and 50s, and to the film scores underpinning them. Behind the music's lazy, loping melodic lines, pulsing accompaniments and moments of fierce drama, there are echoes of the screen composers of that era, and of its jazz - especially in the saxophone and trombone solos of the central slow movement - while some moments hark back a generation...
- www.theguardian.com
Summary for the Busy Executive: Neuron dances. In the Fifties and Sixties, Schoenberg and Webern came into their own, especially in the academies. Webern's music never quite made it out, but Schoenberg's certainly did. You occasionally find his music - and other than his hit Verklaerte Nacht - on concert programs, from all periods of his output...
- www.classical.net
John Adams - "Son of Chamber Symphony: III" Two new works, two distinct genres, two different approaches to musical space and time, two diverse approaches to titling.It is highly unusual in classical music to claim one piece has direct genetic lineage from another. The cannon is riddled with works that derive on, quote from, comment upon, steal from, evoke, and recontextualize other works, but you almost never hear of a piece having a familiar relationship to another...
- dustedmagazine.com
Few contemporary works deal with so crucial a crisis of conscience as John Adams' Doctor Atomic, his opera about the creator of the atom bomb, Robert J Oppenheimer. First seen in 2005 (and staged in the UK for this first time earlier this year by English National Opera), it hinges on Oppenheimer's conflicted relationship with the project - enthralled by the pure science of splitting an atom but appalled by its lethal application...
- www.bbc.co.uk
It's here, at last. As long as five years ago the internet was sprouting rumours that Marin Alsop would be recording Nixon in China. Now those of us who consider it among the most important operas of the 20th century finally have two recordings to argue between. Nixon in China didn't just see John Adams perfecting his distinctive 'Mahler-meets-minimalism' idiom; it also yanked the art form into the mainstream by depicting familiar, living characters on the opera stage for the first time...
- www.bbc.co.uk
This soundtrack album from director Luca Guadagnino's well-received film I Am Love - a family drama set in Milan at the turn of the millennium - could just as easily have been issued as a Greatest Orchestral Hits collection of John Adams...
- www.bbc.co.uk
El Niño has existed for less than a year, yet it feels like longer already. And while I know it's pretty pointless trying to predict which new works will still be getting public performances in twenty years time, I feel like sticking my neck out on this one. John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...
- www.bbc.co.uk
Commissioned to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and first heard in Vienna in late 2006, A Flowering Tree has already been seen and heard in Berlin, San Francisco and, last August, in London's Barbican Hall, from where this live recording hails. Based on a southern Indian folk tale, it tells the story of Kumudha, a young girl who can magically transform herself at will into a tree so that she can sell its blossoms to support her old and infirm mother...
- www.bbc.co.uk
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