John Adams (composer) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 18/01/2019

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00:01:29 1 Life and career
00:01:38 1.1 Before 1977
00:03:00 1.2 1977 to iNixon in China/i
00:03:48 1.3 After iNixon in China/i
00:09:30 2 Musical style
00:12:57 2.1 Style and analysis
00:13:36 2.1.1 Violin Concerto, Mvt. III "Toccare"
00:14:17 3 Critical reception
00:17:27 3.1 Klinghoffer controversy
00:21:12 4 List of works
00:21:22 4.1 Operas
00:22:07 4.2 Orchestral
00:23:52 4.3 Voice and orchestra
00:24:10 4.4 Chamber music
00:25:01 4.5 Other ensemble works
00:25:30 4.6 Choral works
00:25:54 4.7 Tape and electronic compositions
00:26:22 4.8 Piano
00:26:44 4.9 Film scores
00:27:17 4.10 Orchestrations
00:28:03 4.11 Arrangements
00:28:17 5 Awards and recognition
00:30:28 6 Personal life



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John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, clarinetist, and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.His works include Nixon in China (1987), Harmonielehre (1985), Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986), On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.
His operas include Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the hijackers' murder of 69-year-old Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, who used a wheelchair. The opera has drawn controversy, including allegations by some (including Klinghoffer's two daughters) that the opera is antisemitic and glorifies terrorism. The work's creators and others have disputed these criticisms.