John Adams

“The image, strange and whimsical and inexplicable as dreams often can be, confirmed how the birth of a child can be an event of such intense power that it will cause the most insurmountable walls of psychic resistance to come tumbling down.”
John Adamsoccupies a unique position in the world of classical music as a composer, conductor, and creative thinker. Among his most famous works areOn the Transmigration of Souls; Harmonilehre; andNaive and Sentimental Music. His stage works includeNixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky,El Niño, Doctor Atomic, and The Flowering Tree. Adams’s newest work is City Noir, a co-commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony. The New York Philharmonic performs his The Wound Dresser January 12, 2009. The official John Adams website is www.earbox.com.
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