Tag: John Adams

• Adams backstage after conducting Glass’s Ninth Symphony with LA Philharmonic

  Apr 8

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• San Franciscans welcome Gustavo Dudamel

  May 23

  Reporting from San Francisco The houselights stayed dim at the start of Monday night’s concert at Davies Symphony Hall for longer than usual, as if to milk the moment for… more ›

• In performance: NSO with John Adams

  May 14

  American composer John Adams appeared on the podium of the National Symphony Orchestra last night, continuing a series of concerts at the Kennedy Center devoted to his music that began… more ›

• Timothy Andres and his many, varied musical influences

  Apr 30

  Timothy Andres grew up listening to Brahms and Beethoven as he studied piano at the Juilliard School’s precollege program. When he enrolled at Yale in 2003, he discovered a new… more ›

• ‘Pop Music’ vs. ‘Classical Music’, Part One

  Mar 21

  Written by Ronnie Rocket, Classical 2.0 (www.classical20.com) The recent debate on the influence of classical music on indie rock and vice versa, originally initiated with this post in the excellent… more ›

• Indie and modern classical music: the quixotic links

  Mar 21

  Before I’m away for a week, a belated catchup with a good post over at flavorwire.com (thanks to Peter Meanwell, breakfast researcher, Ligeti and ukulele fanatic, and Radio 3 producer,… more ›

• Alex Ross on Meredith Monk; John Adams

  Mar 15

  This week, two proud mavericks of American music—Meredith Monk and John Luther Adams—will edge a little more into the mainstream. Monk, whom I wrote about last fall, is at the St. Louis Symphony,… more ›

• London Symphony Orchestra / John Adams, Barbican Hall, London

  Mar 14

  The intimations of both Ravel and Stravinsky in Colin Matthews’ opulent orchestrations of Debussy’s gusty Preludes “The Wind in the Plain” and “What the West Wind Saw” made for a… more ›

• Classical elitism

  Mar 14

  It’s through the music of Glass, Adams and Reich, that many rock fans have found a way into the labyrinth of classical music more ›

• John Adams' 'Nixon in China' is no longer neglected

  Mar 7

  As a subject for books, plays and films, Nixon, who died in 1994, remains ever fascinating. China, of course, has been ever on our minds. But the [John Adams] opera… more ›