John Adams
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.Among over 60 major compositions are his breakthrough piece for string septet, Shaker Loops (1978); his first significant large-scale orchestral work, Harmonielehre (1985); the popular fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986); and On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a piece for orchestra and chorus commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003. He has written several operas, notably Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China; the controversial The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985 and the hijackers' murder of Leon Klinghoffer; and Doctor Atomic (2005), which covers J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
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Total 23 sheet(s) found, listing between 0 - 20.
Song | Added By | Pages | Instruments | Sheet Type | File |
A Short Ride In A Fast Machine |
chaperoneman (31)
4487d ago
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24 | Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Trombone | Other | |
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto. |
LACIPECEK (66)
4659d ago
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20 | Piano | Original | |
Phrygian Gates |
BaronVB (90)
4673d ago
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61 | Piano | Original | |
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto |
Bugger (147)
4715d ago
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29 | Vocal | Transcription | |
Phrygian Gates part 2 |
EEMMIIRR (7)
4761d ago
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30 | Piano | Transcription | |
China Gates |
yaliramachado (7)
4763d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
sookwan (12)
4769d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Short Ride |
soulless (3)
4790d ago
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27 | Drum, Percussion | Other | |
Nixon in China libretto |
sadiesalome (1)
4820d ago
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29 | Vocal | Other | |
Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
jayduncan90 (10)
4857d ago
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27 | Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bass | Book | |
Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
auresius (97)
4862d ago
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50 | Piano, Cello, Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola | Original | |
The Chairman Dances |
auresius (97)
4862d ago
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55 | Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bassoon | Original | |
The Death of Klinghoffer - libretto |
ancienttowers (3)
4884d ago
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30 | Vocal | Original | |
Phrygian Gates 2 |
Isonogud (2)
4905d ago
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30 | Piano | Original | |
Phrygian Gates part 1 |
Isonogud (2)
4905d ago
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31 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
floraleda (10)
4932d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
ckeledjian (1)
4952d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Shaker Loops |
jamespercival (5)
4978d ago
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61 | Cello, Violin, Viola, Bass | Original | |
China Gates |
jamespercival (5)
4978d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Cavatina |
macmac (5)
4999d ago
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5 | Guitar | Transcription |