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(1) John Coolidge Adams
(born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at the age of ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New England, especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard University, helped shape him as an artist and thinker. After earning two degrees from Harvard University, he moved to Northern California in 1971 and has ever since lived in the San Francisco Bay area.
Adams taught for ten years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before becoming Composer in Residence with the San Francisco Symphony (1982-85) and the creator of the orchestra's highly successful and controversial “New and Unusual Music" series. Several of Adams’s landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985) and El Dorado (1992).
His well-known operas include 'Nixon in China' (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China 1972, and 'Doctor Atomic' (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
John Adams' music is published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishing, www.boosey.com/adams.
Adams' official site is www.earbox.com.
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(2) John Adams is a Dallas-based jazz bassist and band-leader.
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(3) John Adams, Dutch country singer who gained international popularity from 1988 onwards, after winning the televized talent show 'Henny Huisman's Soundmix Show'.
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(4) John Adams is a Trombonist with old swan band.
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(5) John Adams is a Welsh singer-songwriter. He went on to appear on the 2012 X Factor as a Maths Teacher, where he made it through to the last 12 boys. His audition was featured heavily and his rendition of Cannonball by Damien Rice received a huge response from both judges and audience.Being on the show kicked started his career.
"The Pavement Is My Stage" his first album, has been recently released on Sep 25th, 2013
(1) John Coolidge Adams
(born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at the age of ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New England, especially the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Harvard University, helped shape him as an artist and thinker. After earning two degrees from Harvard University, he moved to Northern California in 1971 and has ever since lived in the San Francisco Bay area.
Adams taught for ten years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before becoming Composer in Residence with the San Francisco Symphony (1982-85) and the creator of the orchestra's highly successful and controversial “New and Unusual Music" series. Several of Adams’s landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985) and El Dorado (1992).
His well-known operas include 'Nixon in China' (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China 1972, and 'Doctor Atomic' (2005), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.
John Adams' music is published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishing, www.boosey.com/adams.
Adams' official site is www.earbox.com.
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(2) John Adams is a Dallas-based jazz bassist and band-leader.
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(3) John Adams, Dutch country singer who gained international popularity from 1988 onwards, after winning the televized talent show 'Henny Huisman's Soundmix Show'.
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(4) John Adams is a Trombonist with old swan band.
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(5) John Adams is a Welsh singer-songwriter. He went on to appear on the 2012 X Factor as a Maths Teacher, where he made it through to the last 12 boys. His audition was featured heavily and his rendition of Cannonball by Damien Rice received a huge response from both judges and audience.Being on the show kicked started his career.
"The Pavement Is My Stage" his first album, has been recently released on Sep 25th, 2013
Klinghoffer: Night
John Adams Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by John Adams:
Chorus of Exiled Jews When I paid off the taxi I had no money left And,…
Chorus of Exiled Palestinians My father's house was razed In nineteen forty-eight When t…
Dandelion Wishes How would it be if I never found you Would your…
For Me For Her For You Take what you want from me Leave me what's left I'll learn…
Harmonielehre: II. The Anfortas Wound How do I know if I love you? When I sure…
I'm Like a Bird You're beautiful and that's for sure You'll never ever fade …
Nixon in China: Act I CHOU: Your flight was smooth, I hope? NIXON: Oh yes, smooth…
One Last Look at the Angel in your Eyes When I look in your eyes I feel I've been…
Song About The Bad Boys And The News "All About You" Baby I′ma take you there We can go anywhere…
Sweet and Lovely Sweet and lovely Sweeter than the roses in May Sweet and l…
Things That Make You Beautiful When I hold back the tears You know the words my…
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@Nullifidian
+Shel TR Missed this until coming back to listen to this piece again.
In defense of your claim that this chorus represents "hatred of an entire religion", you ask me the rhetorical question "What religion does Elijah represent to you...??"
So if the mere mention of Elijah is indicative of anti-semitism, which is the inference you clearly want others to draw, then I must also infer that the biggest anti-semite in Western music is Felix Mendelssohn for writing an entire oratorio about that prophet. Somehow I don't think that makes much sense.
(P. S. The reason why Elijah is mentioned in this chorus is that this chorus is meant to be sung by JEWISH characters. True this documentary clip puts them in keffiyehs, which was a bizarre decision, but it's not faifthful to the opera.)
And if you did "listen to the different pieces", then didn't you pick up on the fact that the opera's choruses represents the views of BOTH Jews and Palestinians at different times? Did you miss the fact that every chorus, with the exception of the "Hagar Chorus", is paired by a complementary chorus? (In this case, the second act's "Day Chorus".) If this is indicative of the amount of attention you paid to the piece, why should anyone take your claims seriously?
And contrary to your snide implication that anyone who defends this work must have a personal interest, I'm just someone who likes the opera well enough to have bought the CD, seen it live (at the Long Beach Opera), and seen the film version. Thus I actually have listened to the work in full without bringing any ridiculous preconceptions about its alleged "anti-semitism" and letting them color my reception of it.
@Nullifidian
Shel TR "As far as the usage of Elijah, you've already confirmed the general, and quite automatic, connection to Judaism."
All I've confirmed is that I'm familiar with the fact that howling ignoramuses have condemned this opera as anti-semtiic without bothering to know anything about it, and sometimes spreading the most egregious lies about it. It would have been one hell of a departure from the standard line if you were to start arguing that the opera was anti-Palestinian, although a stronger case could be made for that than the converse.
"As to those complementary choruses, the presentations don't really exert the same effort to present their characters with equal empathy, do they? I honestly don't think so. Actually, it's not really even close."
You've just given the game away. You clearly cannot possibly have searched out this piece and listened to it in full or even in part, otherwise you would not be saying "to present their characters with equal empathy". The choruses do not have any characters. They function like choruses in an oratorio, presenting extremely elliptical and mystic pronouncements that break up the unfolding drama on the ship. You can no more speak of the "characters" of the chorus in this opera than you can the characters of the chorus in Händel's Samson.
Hell, even in the majority of operas, the chorus is made up of indistinguishable characters, so I can also infer your ignorance about the art of opera generally. The thieves' chorus in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera doesn't make distinction between the various thieves as separate characters, for example. There is always a distinction between the delineated primary characters in an opera and the interchangeable members of the chorus of thieves/drinkers/sailors/soldiers/pilgrims/churchgoers/villagers/any other mass group of people that a particular dramatic moment calls for.
So thanks for your tacit admission that you are completely ignorant of this opera and that you are basing your opinion merely on what you've been told about it by other ideologues who are equally ignorant. Not that it needed to be admitted, since it was apparent, but there cannot be the shadow of a doubt about it now.
"BTW: Your supposed argument regarding Mendelssohn is incredibly weak."
My mention of Mendelssohn's Elijah was not an "argument", but a reductio. You know, that "satire" thing you were going on about. If a passing reference to Elijah is sufficient to infer that this chorus is anti-semitic, then clearly a whole oratorio on the subject of Elijah must be that much more anti-semitic. I was applying your own lack-of-logic to reach an absurd conclusion. That was possibly superfluous, since you had me beat to an absurd conclusion, but I wanted you to recognize why it was absurd. Clearly you didn't.
@sheltr9735
+Nullifidian Like you, I haven't thought about, or heard, any of this opera for about a year. So, if I mis-spoke of where exactly the characterizations occurred, then I was wrong. Congrats, you got me.
I'm working from memory here, but it's pretty clear that the Klinghoffers were consistently portrayed as self-concerned. In contrast, the Palestinians (I think it was the supporting characters) were portrayed as having genuine concern for other human beings. I could go back and review the entire opera to confirm the details, but spare me. This argument, over the internet, with somebody I don't know, really isn't sufficiently important to me to re-invest much time into it.
As for the Mendelssohn reduction, you got me again. Correct, I only saw a weak argument. I failed to see your flair for turning satire back on me. However, it just wasn't very satirical. I missed it because it's pretty hard to see.
Okay, I've no interest in snarkiness, either dispensing it or dealing with it. The bottom-line is that I really did listen to it to in order to make to my own decision. And here's some of what I saw: Generalizations of Jews that are none too flattering. True, some of the generalizations of the Palestinian terrorists are also not flattering (although, as I mentioned, the Palestinian non-terrorists ARE presented in a less stock / stereotypical / 2-dimensional way). My question is this: The Klinghoffer family did nothing to warrant the tragedy imposed on them. Why on earth should they now be made to suffer a second indignity forced on them? Why, indeed!
I know, I've not argued entirely fairly. Clearly, you're passionate. Analytical, as well. If you do care to respond, be aware that my interest in this discussion was never too great, and is waning fantastically. I may or may not carry it on. So, if you go in to detail about musical construction, you will just about guarantee my non-response. If you just want to "win", well, there you have it. You're free to choose that, so bully for you if you do.
@joshuazabatta6152
I saw the first US staged production of this at Opera Theatre of St. Louis a few years ago and was blown away by the writing of these choruses. He creates such exquisite vignettes with these pieces. very powerful.
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@Iamyourdoggie
It is incredibly soul-stirring! Goodman did a masterful job. Too bad performances get trampled and censored all the time.
@poetryonplastic
@Jerf Hankell Imagine being so intellectually immature that you think portraying villains as complex characters is somehow venerating them. Do you even watch opera? There are no good tragic operas with one dimensional cartoon antagonists. Grow up.
@hans-detlevv.kirchbach2787
@Jerf Hankell Nonsense.
@Keytaster
I still cannot believe Pierre Boulez called The Death of Klinhoffer "bad film music".... crazy old fool! It's a masterpiece. And John Adams is getting better and better with every opera, just think about "Dr Atomic"