This extraordinarily lucid portrait of John Adams focuses on the composer and on a performance of Harmonium, the massive setting for chorus and orchestra of three poems on aspects of love: John Donne's "Negative Love" and Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Wild Nights." The program juxtaposes Adams's very articulate analysis of his own work with conductor Simon Rattle's rehearsal of Harmonium (with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra). Rattle glows with enthusiasm about the sweep and meaning and the importance of the piece. We see Amherst and the sites connected with Emily Dickinson, as "Because I could not stop for Death" is read while the music is played. An intensity of experience is produced that is rare f...
The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a resurgence of American opera, led in large ...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...
Discusses the minimalist composer, John Adams, and his music. The program juxtaposes Adams's very ar...
A performance of John Adams work, Harmonium, set to words by Emily Dickinson and John Donne.Music pe...
John Adams, perhaps the most prominent American composer of the last twenty-five years (and reported...
John Adams, perhaps the most prominent American composer of the last twenty-five years (and reported...
The works of John Adams (1947--) depart from the Minimalist tradition despite the congruity. The mus...
The aim of this thesis is characterize minimalist music and emphasize differences betwen composition...
When the dust settles, John Adams’s Nixon in China and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach may stan...
This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Tuesday, Octo...
In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich a...
American composer John Luther Adams has been recognized as one of the most important and innovative ...
This article explores the relationship between the music of John Adams’s Nixon in China and the acti...
The composer John Luther Adams envisions his role as one who re-imagines and re-creates relationship...
The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a resurgence of American opera, led in large ...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...
Discusses the minimalist composer, John Adams, and his music. The program juxtaposes Adams's very ar...
A performance of John Adams work, Harmonium, set to words by Emily Dickinson and John Donne.Music pe...
John Adams, perhaps the most prominent American composer of the last twenty-five years (and reported...
John Adams, perhaps the most prominent American composer of the last twenty-five years (and reported...
The works of John Adams (1947--) depart from the Minimalist tradition despite the congruity. The mus...
The aim of this thesis is characterize minimalist music and emphasize differences betwen composition...
When the dust settles, John Adams’s Nixon in China and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach may stan...
This is the concert program of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra performance on Tuesday, Octo...
In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich a...
American composer John Luther Adams has been recognized as one of the most important and innovative ...
This article explores the relationship between the music of John Adams’s Nixon in China and the acti...
The composer John Luther Adams envisions his role as one who re-imagines and re-creates relationship...
The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a resurgence of American opera, led in large ...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...
John Adams\u27s opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemp...