Renowned American composer and conductor John Adams will return to the university in his multiple roles as composer, conductor, and thinker during a weeklong residency Oct. 12–19. Events include a ...

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera, ...

The orchestra’s final program of the season featured the New York premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Become Desert.” By Joshua Barone John Luther Adams’s latest premiere, “Vespers of the Blessed Earth,” ...

One of my favorite moments in John Adams’ 2008 autobiography Hallelujah Junction comes when Adams, as a teenager on the East Coast, decides to sit next to Duke Ellington on his piano bench — while ...

Composer John Adams recalls the inauspicious premiere of one of his most popular works, "A Short Ride in a Fast Machine," which the Houston Symphony performs Sunday afternoon. "The first performance ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week. John Adams has written ...