John Adams, American composer and conductor whose works were among the most-performed of contemporary classical music. His best-known pieces include the fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), but his most ambitious works were his operas, including
— John Adams Label BBC Music Catalogue Number BBC MM222 Conductor Grant Llewellyn Ensemble Bournemouth Symphony Chorus / BBC National Orchestra / Chorus of Wales Label BMG Catalogue Number ECM 821 456-2 Conductor Edo de Waart Ensemble San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ...
专辑名:American Classics: John Adams 歌手:Classical Artists 发行时间:2008-05-05 简介: <American Classics: John Adams> - 歌曲列表 全部播放播放全选 01Ransom Wilson - First & Second movements from Grand Pianola Music (2005 Digital Remaster) ...
Adams had music on both programmes, as did Gabriella Smith, a composer Adams has known since she was a teenager. His City Noir was the headline work with the orchestra, capping a night with Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Smith’s Lost Coast cello concerto — in its ...
John Adams is a composer of classical music and opera. At a young age, he was drawn to the sound of minimalism by composers such as Philip Glass. His themes are as diverse as the former American president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972; the building of the first atomic bomb; ...
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/JOHN ADAMS ; Classical ++ Barbican Hall LONDONAmerican composers may age but their music remains eternallyyoung. Something in the national...By SeckersonEdward
Citing his creation of a new music idiom, by the fusion of jazz, pop, and classical music, the foundation, in a statement, praises Adams’ achievements in making contemporary classical music “communicate,” in addition to the importance of the social and humanist themes he weaves so often in...
Composer, conductor, and creative thinker – John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works, both operatic and symphonic, stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of the...
John Adams. Soundtrack: Shutter Island. John Adams was born on 15 February 1947 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He is a composer, known for Shutter Island (2010), Lola rennt (1998) and We Are Who We Are (2020).
s in the U.S. and London Sinfonietta and BBC Symphony in the U.K. He even leads the Metropolitan Opera and Berlin Philharmonic, two dream gigs. But those who prefer other maestros will be pleased to find longtime champions of Mr. Adams’s music like Edo de Waart, Kent Nagano, David ...