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John Adams

American composer thiab neeg xyuas pib; tus thawj coj sawv cev ntawm cov style nyob rau hauv uas lub thiaj li hu. minimalism (cov yam ntxwv tshwj xeeb - laconism ntawm kev ntxhib los mos, kev rov ua dua ntawm cov ntsiab lus), sawv cev hauv Asmeskas suab paj nruag los ntawm Steve Raik thiab Philip Glass, yog ua ke nrog ntau cov qauv qub.

Adams yug hauv Worcester, Massachusetts thaum Lub Ob Hlis 15, 1947. Nws txiv tau qhia nws kom ua si clarinet, thiab nws ua tau zoo heev uas, raws li ib tug tub ntxhais kawm ntawm Harvard University, qee zaum nws tuaj yeem hloov tus neeg ntaus clarinet hauv Boston Symphony Orchestra. Xyoo 1971, tom qab kawm tiav, nws tau tsiv mus rau California, pib qhia hauv San Francisco Conservatory (1972–1982) thiab coj tus tub ntxhais kawm Ensemble rau New Music. Nyob rau hauv 1982-1985 nws tau txais ib tug composer cov nyiaj pab kawm ntawv los ntawm lub San Francisco Symphony.

Adams thawj zaug nyiam nrog lub septet rau cov hlua (Shaker Loops, 1978): txoj haujlwm no tau qhuas los ntawm cov neeg thuam rau nws cov qauv qub, uas sib txuas cov avant-gardism ntawm iav thiab Reik nrog cov ntaub ntawv neo-romantic thiab cov suab paj nruag piav qhia. Nws tau raug lees paub tias lub sijhawm no, Adams tau pab nws cov npoj yaig laus iav thiab Ryke nrhiav cov kev coj ua tshiab, qhov twg qhov kev nruj ntawm cov style yog softened thiab cov suab paj nruag tau nkag mus rau ntau yam ntawm cov neeg mloog.

Nyob rau hauv 1987, Adams 'Nixon nyob rau hauv Tuam Tshoj premiered nyob rau hauv Houston nrog zoo kawg nkaus ua yeeb yam, ib tug opera raws li paj huam los ntawm Alice Goodman txog Richard Nixon lub historic lub rooj sib tham nrog Mao Zedong nyob rau hauv 1972. Lub opera twb tom qab staged nyob rau hauv New York thiab Washington, raws li zoo raws li nyob rau hauv ib co. European lub zos; nws cov ntaub ntawv tau dhau los ua tus muag khoom zoo tshaj plaws. Cov txiv hmab txiv ntoo tom ntej ntawm kev koom tes ntawm Adams thiab Goodman yog zaj yeeb yaj kiab The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) raws li zaj dab neeg ntawm kev ntes cov neeg caij nkoj los ntawm Palestinian cov neeg phem.

Lwm cov haujlwm tseem ceeb los ntawm Adams suav nrog Phrygian Gates (1977), kev nruj thiab kev tsim txiaj rau piano; Harmonium (1980) rau loj orchestra thiab hu nkauj; Available Light (1982) yog ib qho kev nthuav hauv hluav taws xob nrog kev ua yeeb yam los ntawm Lucinda Childs; "Suab paj nruag rau Grand Piano" (Grand Pianola Music, 1982) rau ntau lub pianos (xws li hluav taws xob ntau lub suab ntawm cov twj paj nruag) thiab orchestra; “Kev Qhia Txog Kev Sib Raug Zoo” (Harmonienlehre, 1985, uas yog lub npe ntawm Arnold Schoenberg phau ntawv kawm) rau lub suab seev suab paj nruag thiab “full-length” violin concerto (1994).

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