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John Adams
voc, p, *1947 US, Worcester, Massachusetts
Composer / Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. John Coolidge Adams
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.His works include 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 a Pulitzer Prize in 2003), and Shaker Loops (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.
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Adams: Hallelujah Junction: 1st Movement on Road Movies by John Adams China Gates on My American Story: North by Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Prologue: Chorus of Exiled Palestinians on John Adams: The Death Of Klinghoffer by John Adams, Kent Nagano, The Opera De Lyon, London Opera Chorus & Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon China Gates on China Gates by John Adams & Anthony Romaniuk Short Ride in a Fast Machine on Adams: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in A Fast Machine by John Adams & Marin Alsop Hallelujah Junction on Pianoduo by Gerard Bouwhuis & Cees Van Zeeland Shaker Loops: 4. A Final Shaking on Reich: Variations for Winds, Strings & Keyboards / Adams: Shaker Loops by John Adams, Edo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony China Gates on John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? by John Adams, Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel Adams: The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) on The Chairman Dances by John Adams China Gates on Inner Cities by Bruce BrubakerTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violin Concerto | John Adams, Leila Josefowicz, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2018 | Album |
| Naive And Sentimental Music / Absolute Jest | John Adams, Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian | 2018 | Album |
| Doctor Atomic | John Adams | 2018 | Album |
| Adams Piano Music | John Adams, Jeroen van Veen | 2017 | Album |
| Violin Concertos | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, John Adams, Ilya Gringolts, Københavns Filharmoniske Orkester, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Julien Salemkour | 2017 | Album |
| American Berserk | John Adams | 2017 | Album |
| Symphony No.10 / The Dharma At Big Sur | Philip Glass, John Adams, Chloë Hanslip, Aurora Orchestra, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Nicholas Collon, Eric Stern | 2016 | Album |
| Scheherazade.2 | John Adams ; Leila Josefowicz, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2016 | Album |
| Scheherazade.2 | John Adams ; Leila Josefowicz, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2016 | Album |
| El Niño | John Adams - Joélle Harvey, Jennifer Johnson, Aubrey Allicock, Daniel Bubeck, Nathan Medley, Brian Cummings, Markus Stenz | 2016 | Album |
| Violin Concertos | Roy Harris • John Adams – Tamsin Waley-Cohen | 2016 | Album |
| Concerti III | Francis Poulenc, Colin McPhee, John Adams, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Trio Mediæval, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 2016 | Album |
| Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music | The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams | 2015 | Album |
| American Grace | Orli Shaham, Steven Mackey, John Adams | 2014 | Album |
| The Gospel According To The Other Mary | John Adams - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel | 2014 | Album |
| City Noir / Saxophone Concerto | John Adams, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2014 | Album |
| City Noir / Saxophone Concerto | John Adams, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2014 | Album |
| Harmonielehre / Doctor Atomic Symphony / Short Ride In A Fast Machine | John Adams, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian | 2013 | Album |
| Fellow Traveler (The Complete String Quartet Works Of John Adams) | Attacca Quartet, John Adams | 2013 | Album |
| If You Love For Beauty | Sasha Cooke, The Colburn Orchestra, Yehuda Gilad - John Adams / Ernest Chausson / Georg Friedrich Händel / Gustav Mahler | 2012 | Album |
| Nixon In China | John Adams | 2012 | Album |
| Harmonielehre / Short Ride In A Fast Machine | John Adams | 2012 | Album |
| Son Of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet | John Adams – International Contemporary Ensemble / St. Lawrence String Quartet | 2011 | Album |
| John Adams Portrait | Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà, Louise Bessette, John Adams | 2011 | Album |
| The Dharma At Big Sur | John Adams, Leila Josefowicz, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | 2010 | Single |
| Le Divin Poème / Tetra / Harmonielehre / Century Rolls | Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Juozas Domarkas, Petras Geniušas - Alexander Scriabine / Osvaldas Balakauskas / John Adams | 2010 | Album |
| China Gates, Phrygian Gates; Orphée Suite for Piano | John Adams, Philip Glass / David Jalbert | 2010 | Album |
| The Dharma At Big Sur | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, John Adams, Leila Josefowicz, William Kraft, Joseph Pereira, Leonard Rosenman | 2010 | Album |
| I Am Love Soundtrack | John Adams | 2010 | Album |
| American Counterpoint | John Adams, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow | 2009 | Album |
| Shaker Loops / The Chairman Dances | John Adams | 2009 | Compil. |
| Nixon In China | The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, John Adams, Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova, Thomas Hammons, Marc Heller, Tracy Dahl, Ye Yuan Cheng, Opera Colorado Chorus | 2009 | Album |
| Doctor Atomic Symphony | John Adams / Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Conducted By David Robertson | 2009 | Album |
| Transmigration | Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus / John Adams, Samuel Barber, John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon / Nmon Ford | 2009 | Album |
| Artist Profile Series | Ralph van Raat, John Adams / John Tavener / Magnus Lindberg / Frederic Rzewski | 2009 | Album |
| String Poetic | Jennifer Koh, Reiko Uchida, Jennifer Higdon, John Adams, Carl Ruggles, Lou Harrison | 2008 | Album |
| A Flowering Tree | John Adams | 2008 | Album |
| Grand Pianola Music • Shaker Loops • Short Ride In A Fast Machine | John Adams - The London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green, Sir Simon Rattle | 2008 | Compil. |
| Hallelujah Junction | John Adams | 2008 | Compil. |
| A Flowering Tree | John Adams | 2008 | Album |
| Harmonielehre | John Adams - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson | 2008 | Album |
| Doctor Atomic | John Adams | 2008 | Album |
| Complete Piano Music | John Adams, Ralph van Raat | 2007 | Album |
| Violin Concerto - Red Violin 'Chaconne' | John Adams, John Corigliano, Chloë Hanslip, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 2006 | Album |
| Piano Works: Four Pieces & Phrygian Gates | Frederic Rzewski & John Adams - Emanuele Arciuli | 2006 | Album |
| The Dharma At Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives | John Adams | 2006 | Album |
| Road Movies | John Adams - Andrew Russo, James Ehnes | 2005 | Album |
| Untitled | Živilė Karkauskaitė - John Adams, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen | 2005 | Album |
| Dialogue Baroque - Minimal | Johann Sebastian Bach / John Adams / Steve Reich - Festival Strings Lucerne, Achim Fiedler | 2005 | Album |
| I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky | John Adams | 2005 | Album |
| Shaker Loops • Short Ride In A Fast Machine • The Wound Dresser • Berceuse Élégiaque | John Adams, Nathan Gunn, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop | 2004 | Album |
| Road Movies | John Adams | 2004 | Album |
| On The Transmigration Of Souls | John Adams | 2004 | Album |
| Johan de Meij Symphony No. 2 The Big Apple (A New York Symphony) John Adams Slonimsky's Earbox | Johan de Meij, John Adams, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Jurjen Hempel | 2003 | Album |
| Naive And Sentimental Music | John Adams - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen | 2002 | Album |
| Short Ride In A Fast Machine • The Chairman Dances • Harmonium / De Snelheid | John Adams / Louis Andriessen | 2002 | Album |
| Tromba Lontana, Violin Concerto, The Wound Dresser | John Adams With BBC Symphony Orchestra | 2002 | Album |
| El Niño | John Adams - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White, Kent Nagano | 2001 | Album |
| Shifting Landscapes | John Adams / Lepo Sumera | 2001 | Album |
| shifting landscapes | Kristjan Järvi, Symphony Orchestra Of Norrlands Opera, John Adams, Lepo Sumera | 2001 | Album |
| Harmonium / The Klinghoffer Choruses | John Adams | 2000 | Album |
| Century Rolls / Lollapalooza / Slonimsky's Earbox | John Adams | 2000 | Album |
| Americans! - XXth Century Piano Music Of American Composers | Emanuele Arciuli, John Adams - Samuel Barber - George Crumb - Joel Hoffman - John Cage - Frederic Rzewski | 2000 | Album |
| China Gates / Phrygian Gates | John Adams - Jay Gottlieb | 1999 | Album |
| Fearful Symmetries / Chamber Symphony / Four Songs / Christian Zeal And Activity | John Adams - Orchestre Philharmonique De Montpellier | 1999 | Album |
| Violin Concertos | John Adams & Philip Glass - Robert McDuffie, Christoph Eschenbach, Houston Symphony Orchestra | 1999 | Album |
| American Clarinet | Elliott Carter - Steve Reich - Howard Sandroff - John Adams / Alain Damiens - André Trouttet - Ensemble Intercontemporain - David Robertson | 1999 | Album |
| Harmonium, The Wound-Dresser | John Adams | 1999 | Album |
| The John Adams Earbox | John Adams | 1999 | Compil. |
| John Adams / Shaker Loops | John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass | 1998 | Compil. |
| China Gates / Phrygian Gates | John Adams - Jay Gottlieb | 1998 | Album |
| Piano Music Of John Adams & Terry Riley | John Adams & Terry Riley - Gloria Cheng | 1998 | Album |
| Gnarly Buttons & John's Book Of Alleged Dances | John Adams, London Sinfonietta & Kronos Quartet | 1998 | Album |
| I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky | John Adams | 1998 | Album |
| Gates Beyond | Peter Waters - John Adams, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie | 1997 | Album |
| East Of Eden / Rebel Without A Cause | Leonard Rosenman, John Adams & London Sinfonietta | 1997 | Album |
| Chamber Symphony / Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates For Solo Piano | John Adams, Ensemble Modern | 1997 | Album |
| El Dorado | John Adams | 1996 | Album |
| The Desert Music, Shaker Loops | Steve Reich, John Adams | 1996 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops | John Adams - Gidon Kremer, The London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano - Orchestra Of St. Luke's | 1996 | Album |
| El Dorado | John Adams | 1996 | Album |
| Harmonium / The Bells | John Adams, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Renée Fleming, Karl Dent, Victor Ledbetter - Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Chorus | 1996 | Album |
| Nixon In China (Extraits) | John Adams / Edo de Waart | 1996 | Album |
| Grand Pianola Music / Short Ride In A Fast Machine / Are You Experienced? / Under Orpheus | Stephen Mosko, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - John Adams / David Lang | 1995 | Album |
| The Ultimate Minimal | Steve Reich / Philip Glass / John Adams | 1995 | Compil. |
| Chamber Symphony / Grand Pianola Music | John Adams - London Sinfonietta | 1994 | Album |
| Harmonielehre · The Chairman Dances · Tromba Lontana · Short Ride In A Fast Machine | John Adams - City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle | 1994 | Album |
| Hoodoo Zephyr | John Adams | 1993 | Album |
| American Classics | George Gershwin · Duke Ellington · Leonard Bernstein · John Adams · Hollywood Bowl Orchestra - John Mauceri | 1993 | Album |
| The Death Of Klinghoffer | John Adams, Alice Goodman - Orchestre De L'Opéra De Lyon, Kent Nagano | 1992 | Album |
| American Elegies | John Adams Conducts Orchestra Of St. Luke's With Dawn Upshaw, Paul Crossley | 1991 | Album |
| Transatlantic Piano | John McCabe Plays John Adams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, George Rochberg, André Previn | 1991 | Album |
| Helps/Adams/Brief/Sessions | Christopher O'Riley - Robert Helps, John Adams, Todd Brief, Roger Sessions | 1990 | Album |
| Minimalist | The London Chamber Orchestra - John Adams / Philip Glass / Steve Reich / Dave Heath | 1990 | Album |
| Harmonielehre For Orchestra / Concerto For Violin And Orchestra | John Adams, Ladislav Kubík | 1989 | Album |
| Fearful Symmetries / The Wound-Dresser | John Adams - Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Sanford Sylvan | 1989 | Album |
| Night Fantasies / Phrygian Gates / Six Tangos | Ursula Oppens, Elliott Carter, John Adams | 1989 | Album |
| Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts) | John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart | 1988 | Album |
| Music From Nixon In China | John Adams | 1988 | Album |
| Music From Nixon In China | John Adams | 1988 | Album |
| strip this heart | John Adams | 1987 | Single |
| The Chairman Dances | John Adams | 1987 | Album |
| Strip This Heart | John Adams | 1987 | Single |
| Shaker Loops / Light Over Water | John Adams | 1987 | Compil. |
| Light Over Water | John Adams | 1985 | Album |
| Harmonielehre | John Adams - The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 1985 | Album |
| Grand Pianola / Eight Lines | John Adams / Steve Reich / Solisti New York / Ransom Wilson | 1984 | Album |
| Variations For Winds, Strings And Keyboards / Shaker Loops | Steve Reich / John Adams | 1984 | Album |
| Harmonium | John Adams, The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Chorus | 1984 | Album |
| Available Light / Light Over Water | John Adams | 1983 | Album |
| Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates | John Adams | 1980 | Album |
| Ensemble Pieces | Christopher Hobbs / John Adams / Gavin Bryars | 1975 | Album |
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