John Adams

John Adams

John AdamsJohn 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)
4729d ago
24 Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Trombone Other
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto. LACIPECEK (66)
4901d ago
20 Piano Original
Phrygian Gates BaronVB (90)
4916d ago
61 Piano Original
Nixon in China-Complete Libretto Bugger (147)
4958d ago
29 Vocal Transcription
Phrygian Gates part 2 EEMMIIRR (7)
5004d ago
30 Piano Transcription
China Gates yaliramachado (7)
5005d ago
11 Piano Original
China Gates sookwan (12)
5012d ago
11 Piano Original
Short Ride soulless (3)
5032d ago
27 Drum, Percussion Other
Nixon in China libretto sadiesalome (1)
5063d ago
29 Vocal Other
Short Ride in a Fast Machine jayduncan90 (10)
5100d ago
27 Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bass Book
Short Ride in a Fast Machine auresius (97)
5105d ago
50 Piano, Cello, Trumpet, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola Original
The Chairman Dances auresius (97)
5105d ago
55 Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Horn, Bassoon Original
The Death of Klinghoffer - libretto ancienttowers (3)
5126d ago
30 Vocal Original
Phrygian Gates 2 Isonogud (2)
5148d ago
30 Piano Original
Phrygian Gates part 1 Isonogud (2)
5148d ago
31 Piano Original
China Gates floraleda (10)
5175d ago
11 Piano Original
China Gates ckeledjian (1)
5195d ago
11 Piano Original
Shaker Loops jamespercival (5)
5220d ago
61 Cello, Violin, Viola, Bass Original
China Gates jamespercival (5)
5220d ago
11 Piano Original
Cavatina macmac (5)
5242d ago
5 Guitar Transcription