John Adams - Composer

John Adams - Composer Radio

Music

FEATURED SONG

Play
Play Next
Add to queue

Violin Concerto: III. Toccare

Album: Adams, John: Violin Concerto; Shaker Loops

Released: Dec 13, 2005

Label: Nonesuch

1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Violin Concerto: III. Toccare
7:40
12,236 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Fearful Symmetries
28:03
47,038 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Hallelujah Junction - 1st movement -
7:10
48,775 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Tundra
10:35
45,814 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
III. Chain to the Rhythm
10:59
3,532 plays

Total Plays: 249,076 / Plays Today: 12See All Featured ►

General Info

Genre: Classical / Experimental
Location BERKELEY, California, Un
Profile Views: 294109
Last Login: 12/3/2010
Member Since 6/8/2006
Website www.earbox.com
Record Label www.nonesuch.com
Type of Label Major
Bio
This official John Adams myspace page is operated by colleagues at John Adams' music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, with input and collaboration from the composer himself. Special thanks to Nonesuch for granting us permission to stream these tracks. Enjoy! "Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy." -John Adams John Adams has harnessed the rhythmic energy of Minimalism to the harmonies and orchestral colours of late-Romanticism * Brought contemporary history to the opera house with his post-modern music-theatre works ..Nixon in China.. (1987) and ..The Death of Klinghoffer.. (1991) * Has addressed urgent social issues with passion and empathy, both in his operas and in such works as ..I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky.., ..El Dorado.. and ..The Wound-Dresser.. * His works are much favoured by choreographers, with multiple ballet versions of ..Fearful Symmetries.. * Winner of the 1995 Grawemeyer Award for his Violin Concerto * Series of recordings on the Nonesuch label * A recent survey shows him to be the most frequently performed living American composer of orchestral music. Works by John Adams include: Short Ride in a Fast Machine.. (1986) for orchestra Violin Concerto (1993) El Niño (1999-2000) for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, three counter-tenors, chorus, optional childrens' chorus and orchestra
Members
Influences
"JS Bach, Duke Ellington, Melville, Mozart (particularly concertos and chamber music), John Philip Sousa, Charles Ives, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Whitman, Kayan Kalhor (Persian kamchei virtuoso), Cervantes (en español), Copland, Ali Akbar Khan, Benny Goodman, Conlon Nancarrow, Mahler, Shakespeare (particularly Lear), Thomas Mann, Beethoven (particularly piano music), Stockhausen tape music, Schoenberg (strange but true), Beatles, Qawwali music (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), Louis Armstrong, Paul Butterfield, Debussy/Ravel, Frank Gehry, Wagner (but not Parsifal), Allen Ginsberg, Glass/Reich/Riley." "Recently, I have been listening to Alarm Will Sound arrangements of Aphex Twin, old LP recordings of the Benny Goodman Orchestra from the late 1930's, and the new edit of "The Dharma at Big Sur", my concerto for electric violin, played by the amazing Tracy Silverman. I recently conducted scenes from Glass's Akhnaten with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and found that I liked it." ..- JA
Sounds Like

More ▼Less ▲

This official John Adams myspace page is operated by colleagues at John Adams' music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, with input and collaboration from the composer himself. Special thanks to Nonesuch for granting us permission to stream these tracks. Enjoy!

"Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy." -John Adams

John Adams has harnessed the rhythmic energy of Minimalism to the harmonies and orchestral colours of late-Romanticism * Brought contemporary history to the opera house with his post-modern music-theatre works Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) * Has addressed urgent social issues with passion and empathy, both in his operas and in such works as I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky, El Dorado and The Wound-Dresser * His works are much favoured by choreographers, with multiple ballet versions of Fearful Symmetries * Winner of the 1995 Grawemeyer Award for his Violin Concerto * Series of recordings on the Nonesuch label * A recent survey shows him to be the most frequently performed living American composer of orchestral music.

Works by John Adams include: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) for orchestra Violin Concerto (1993) El Niño (1999-2000) for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, three counter-tenors, chorus, optional childrens' chorus and orchestra

Music

Nixon In China
41 Songs | Feb 8, 2011
I Am Love Soundtrack by John Adams
9 Songs | Jun 15, 2010
El Nino
24 Songs | Aug 25, 2009
The Chairman Dances
5 Songs | Aug 25, 2009
Naive and Sentimental Music
3 Songs | Aug 25, 2009
Road Movies
11 Songs | Aug 25, 2009

Stream

No recent updates in this category.

Why not...

Comments

Influences:

"JS Bach, Duke Ellington, Melville, Mozart (particularly concertos and chamber music), John Philip Sousa, Charles Ives, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Whitman, Kayan Kalhor (Persian kamchei virtuoso), Cervantes (en español), Copland, Ali Akbar Khan, Benny Goodman, Conlon Nancarrow, Mahler, Shakespeare (particularly Lear), Thomas Mann, Beethoven (particularly piano music), Stockhausen tape music, Schoenberg (strange but true), Beatles, Qawwali music (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), Louis Armstrong, Paul Butterfield, Debussy/Ravel, Frank Gehry, Wagner (but not Parsifal), Allen Ginsberg, Glass/Reich/Riley."

"Recently, I have been listening to Alarm Will Sound arrangements of Aphex Twin, old LP recordings of the Benny Goodman Orchestra from the late 1930's, and the new edit of "The Dharma at Big Sur", my concerto for electric violin, played by the amazing Tracy Silverman. I recently conducted scenes from Glass's Akhnaten with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and found that I liked it."
- JA