The John Adams reader : essential writings on an American composer /
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| Imprint: | Pompton Plains, N.J. : Amadeus, 2006. |
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| Description: | xviii, 455 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6094513 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Portraits of the Artist
- John Adams Reflects on His Career
- The Harmonist
- On Top, but Ever the Risk-Taker
- Composer Captures Essence of Today
- Voice of America: Composer John Adams Speaks for the Nation
- Life as Music: John Adams Goes Public
- Ingram Marshall on the Early Years in San Francisco
- Part 2. The Musical Works
- Shaker Loops (1978; revised 1983)
- Harmonium for Large Orchestra and Chorus (1980-81)
- Grand Pianola Music (1982)
- Light Over Water: The Genesis of a Music (1983)
- Harmonielehre (1984-85)
- The Chairman Dances (1985)
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)
- Nixon in China (1985-87)
- Fearful Symmetries and The Wound-Dresser (1988)
- The Death of Klinghoffer (1990-91)
- El Dorado (1991)
- Chamber Symphony (1992)
- Violin Concerto (1993)
- Gnarly Buttons (1996)
- Century Rolls (1996)
- Naive and Sentimental Music: A Sentimental Journey (1997-98)
- El Nino: A Nativity Oratorio (1999-2000)
- John Adams on El Nino and Vernacular Elements
- Memory Spaces (On the Transmigration of Souls) (2002)
- John Adams Discusses On the Transmigration of Souls
- My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003)
- The Dharma at Big Sur (2003)
- John Adams on Doctor Atomic (2004-05)
- Part 3. Collaborators and Interpreters
- Creating Contexts: Peter Sellars on Working with Adams
- Breaking Taboos (Portrait of Alice Goodman)
- Robert Spano on Conducting the Music of Adams
- John Adams on Conducting Ives
- Emanuel Ax on Performing Adams's Piano Concerto
- Dawn Upshaw on Singing in El Nino
- Part 4. Critical Reception
- Early Works
- Mischief (Grand Pianola Music)
- Nixon in China
- Nixon in China
- The Klinghoffer Controversy
- The Klinghoffer Debate
- From an Episode of Terrorism, Adams's Death of Klinghoffer
- Seeking Symmetry Between Palestinians and Jews
- Seeking Answers in an Opera
- Dept. of Raw Nerves: Hijack Opera Scuttled
- Music's Dangers and the Case for Control
- Born Again (Film of The Death of Klinghoffer)
- Something To Say (Violin Concerto)
- I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
- Adams, Sellars Think Smaller in New Opera (I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky)
- Adams's Twentieth Century Rolls-and Rocks (Century Rolls)
- Bigger Proves Better in Adams's Grandiose World (Naive and Sentimental Music)
- Rebirth of a Savior in El Nino
- Washed in the Sound of Souls in Transit (On the Transmigration of Souls)
- The Art of 9/11
- Symphony Premieres Adams's Splendid Ives
- History's Unholy Trinity (Doctor Atomic)
- Learning To Love the Bomb (Doctor Atomic)
- Aspects of John Adams's Music: Floating Elegies and Music Boxes
- Appendix A. "Rumor Scene" from The Death of Klinghoffer
- Appendix B. Synopsis: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
- Appendix C. Synopsis: Doctor Atomic
- Appendix D. The Complete Works of John Adams
- Contributors
- Index of John Adams Compositions
- Index of Names
- Sources and Permissions
