Word: adamses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Forty years ago, John C. Adams ’69 was the first Harvard undergraduate to submit an original composition as his senior thesis. The music concentrator then went on to become one of the most renowned American composers of the twentieth century.
Adams returned to his alma mater last night for the second time since 2007 to discuss his setting to music of Walt Whitman’s poem “The Wound Dresser,” in the company of two of Harvard’s most distinguished professors: University...
Adams, a minimalist composer, is most famous for his opera “Nixon in China,” and in 2003 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his choral commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks, entitled “On the Transmigration of Souls.”
The Bach Society Orchestra, which Adams conducted as an undergraduate, opened the event with a performance of the work that was the focal point of the event.
This cerebral formula turned out to be a recipe for irresistible eye candy. Draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, and you end up with a dynamic pattern of vector formations. A great LeWitt wall drawing may start like an algebra lesson, but it ends like a Renaissance fresco. Now you...