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Adams was the only son of merchant Hon. John Adams and Hannah Checkley of Nova Scotia, [1] and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11, 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap's friends formed a new society, and ...
Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra by the American composer John Adams, written in 1980-1981 for the first season of Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson and is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period. [1]
It is set in Harmonium by John Adams (1981). [7]The poem is the origin of the title Wild Nights with Emily, a 2018 biopic of Dickinson starring Molly Shannon. [8]Actress Najarra Townsend recites the poem in its entirety in the 2017 film Mercury in Retrograde.
Naive and Sentimental Music is a symphonic work by American composer John Adams.The title of the work alludes to an essay by Friedrich Schiller, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry, that contrasts a creative personality that creates art for its own sake (the "naïve") versus one conscious of other purposes, such as art’s place in history (the "sentimental"). [1]
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History. The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
The Gospel According to the Other Mary is an opera-oratorio by the American composer John Adams.The world premiere took place on May 31, 2012, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic [1] who also premiered the staged version on March 7, 2013, at the same venue.
Harmonielehre is a 40-minute orchestral composition by the American composer John Adams, composed in 1985.In his memoir, Adams wrote that the piece "was a statement of belief in the power of tonality at a time when I was uncertain about its future" [1] and that it was "a one-of-kind [] once-only essay in the wedding of fin-de-siècle chromatic harmony with the rhythmic and formal procedures of ...
El Niño is an opera-oratorio by the contemporary American composer John Adams.It was premiered on December 15, 2000, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by soloists Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Willard White, the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices (consisting of countertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, and Steven Rickards), the London Voices, La Maîtrise de Paris, and the ...