One of America's most admired and respected composers, John Adams is a musician of enormous range and technical command. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical ...

The large three-story 1920s stucco house on a quiet street in Berkeley where composer John Adams, 55, lives, is like its owners - modest, low key and often alive with music. Adams' son, Sam, an ...

Renowned American composer and conductor John Adams will return to the university in his multiple roles as composer, conductor, and thinker during a weeklong residency Oct. 12–19. Events include a ...

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of ...

downward in a freezing earth. For a young Adams, that freezing earth was Alaska. Adams grew up in the suburbs of the Lower 48, and studied music composition and percussion near Los Angeles. When he ...

Recently a number of changes were announced in the way the Pulitzer Prize for Music would be selected. Historically, the prize has been restricted to what might be termed "art" music. Film and theater ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Adams, arguably our greatest living composer, has done operas inspired by recent history. In “Antony and Cleopatra,” he turns to Shakespeare. John Adams’s 75th year is being ...