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)
4509d ago
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24 | Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Trombone | Other | |
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto. |
LACIPECEK (66)
4681d ago
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20 | Piano | Original | |
Phrygian Gates |
BaronVB (90)
4696d ago
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61 | Piano | Original | |
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto |
Bugger (147)
4738d ago
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29 | Vocal | Transcription | |
Phrygian Gates part 2 |
EEMMIIRR (7)
4784d ago
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30 | Piano | Transcription | |
China Gates |
yaliramachado (7)
4785d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
sookwan (12)
4792d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Short Ride |
soulless (3)
4812d ago
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27 | Drum, Percussion | Other | |
Nixon in China libretto |
sadiesalome (1)
4843d ago
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29 | Vocal | Other | |
Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
jayduncan90 (10)
4880d ago
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27 | Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bass | Book | |
Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
auresius (97)
4885d ago
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50 | Piano, Cello, Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola | Original | |
The Chairman Dances |
auresius (97)
4885d ago
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55 | Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bassoon | Original | |
The Death of Klinghoffer - libretto |
ancienttowers (3)
4906d ago
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30 | Vocal | Original | |
Phrygian Gates 2 |
Isonogud (2)
4928d ago
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30 | Piano | Original | |
Phrygian Gates part 1 |
Isonogud (2)
4928d ago
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31 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
floraleda (10)
4954d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
China Gates |
ckeledjian (1)
4974d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Shaker Loops |
jamespercival (5)
5000d ago
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61 | Cello, Violin, Viola, Bass | Original | |
China Gates |
jamespercival (5)
5000d ago
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11 | Piano | Original | |
Cavatina |
macmac (5)
5022d ago
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5 | Guitar | Transcription |