John Clement Adams

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John Clement Adams (born November 28, 1947, in Attleboro, Massachusetts [1] ) is an American composer and educator.

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Biography

Adams studied music at Harvard, receiving a B.A. in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1982. [2] [3] His teachers included Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, Ivan Tcherepnin, and Tison Street. His thesis was the composition Electric Wake. He continued studies at Tanglewood with Jacob Druckman, Alan Stout, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1972 he became a faculty member of the Boston Conservatory, and retired in 2001 as chair of the composition department. [4] [5] He was also a visiting lecturer at Harvard. [6]

Among his awards include the B.M.I. Award in 1970, the Margaret Grant Award from Tanglewood in 1974 (when he was a composition fellow [7] ), and the 1979 UMass/Boston award in music composition (which resulted in performance at the 2nd annual Harbor Festival "Winds and Airs - Music to Celebrate Spring" on UMass Boston's campus in April 1979). [4] [8]

Some of his compositions have been published by Schirmer. [9] Among his students are Steven David Stalzer, [10] Bonnie Cochran, [11] William Eldridge, [12] Robin Baker, Gary Lloyd Noland, [13] Yuriko Kojima, [14] Pasquale Tassone, [15] Hau-yee Ng, [16] Alejandro Madrid, [17] and Hayato Hirose. [18] [19]

Other composers named John Adams

There are at least two other composers named John Adams, which has led to several points of confusion, including mistaken festival programming and incorrect authority control attributions: John Coolidge Adams (who goes professionally by John Adams), and John Luther Adams. Further complicating the matter is that both John C. Adams studied at Harvard at the same time, including having had their theses overseen by Leon Kirchner. [7] [20] [21] [22] [23]

Selected works

References

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  2. 1 2 Adams, John Clement (1982). Concerto for violin and orchestra. OCLC   659852513.
  3. 1 2 "Cheap thrills". The Boston Globe. 1998-12-03. p. 113. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Linda Solow; Mary Wallace Davidson; Brenda Chasen Goldman; Geraldine Ostrove, eds. (1983). The Boston composers project: a bibliography of contemporary music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN   0-262-02198-6. OCLC   9576366.
  5. "Boston Conservatory Honors". The Boston Globe. 2001-04-08. p. 246. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  6. 1 2 "Commissions". The James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  7. 1 2 "Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music - The New York Times". The New York Times . 2022-06-16. Archived from the original on 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  8. "Second Annual Harbor Festival". The Spectator, University of Massachusetts at Boston. 2 (10): 2. April 18, 1979.
  9. 1 2 Hinson, Maurice; Wesley Roberts (2021). The piano in chamber ensemble: an annotated guide (Third ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-05674-0. OCLC   1260192498.
  10. Music from the Society of Composers Region 1 (New England) (PDF) (Concert Program Notes). University of Massachusetts Department of Music and Dance. October 7, 1995.
  11. "BIO | Bonnie Cochran, flute". www.bonniecochran.net. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  12. "William Eldridge - Bio". billeldridge.com. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  13. composergarynoland. "gary lloyd noland: composer, pianist, WRITER, theorIST". gary lloyd noland: composer, pianist, WRITER, theorIST. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  14. "Yuriko Kojima". Columbia University Department of Music. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  15. "Pasquale Tassone". www.ecspublishing.com. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  16. "NG Hau-yee Poly 伍巧怡 | Hong Kong Composers' Guild". HKCG 香港作曲家聯會. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  17. 1 2 John Clement Adams, Five Pieces , retrieved 2022-10-19
  18. "Hayato Hirose" . Retrieved Oct 18, 2022.
  19. "John Clement Adams", Wikipedia (in German), 2022-10-15, retrieved 2022-10-19
  20. Johnson, Timothy Alan (1991). Harmony in the music of John Adams: From Phrygian Gates to Nixon in China (Thesis).[ page needed ]
  21. "ISNI 0000000027371283 Adams, John Clement". isni.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
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  24. An evening of premieres: in honor of Daniel Pinkham, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. OCLC   39983515.
  25. Klein[e] Kammermusik Op. 24 Nr. 2 / (in three movements) / John Clement Adams. Come again! sweet love doth now invite ; Flow my tears / John Dowland. Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 / Heitor Villa-Lobos. Three by three / Robert W. Jones. Divertimento no. 2 : (from five Divertimenti for two clarinets and bassoon, E. [i.e. K.] 439b / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. OCLC   33981372.
  26. Overture to 'Oberon' / for baritone, chorus & orchestra / John Clement Adams. Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 / Antonin Dvorak. OCLC   40880623.
  27. "Boston Conservatory Chamber Ensemble". The Boston Globe. 1993-04-18. p. 254. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  28. "Elizabeth Parcells In Memoriam". www.elizabethparcells.com. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  29. 1 2 3 "Works Selections". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  30. Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tanglewood Music Center yearbook, 2002. Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives. Lenox, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  31. "Season Finale". The Berkshire Eagle. 1992-04-16. p. 27. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  32. "World premiere by Berkshire Symphony". The Berkshire Eagle. 1992-04-20. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  33. "Pro Arte Orchestra goes Parisian". The Boston Globe. 1985-02-26. p. 65. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  34. Chase, Scott I. (March 1, 1985). "Pro Arte energetic, satisfying" (PDF). The Tech. Vol. 105, no. 7. p. 9. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  35. 1 2 "Faculty composers concert / John Clement Adams, Chris Rozé, Larry Bell". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  36. Adams, John Clement (1986). Four pastoral pieces. OCLC   20231780.
  37. 1 2 "New life for some neglected works". The Boston Globe. 1991-08-31. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  38. 1 2 "Faculty composers concert: Larry Thomas Bell, John Clement Adams, Chris Rozé". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  39. "Heine songs | J. Adams | LiederNet". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  40. "Attractive new works by three local composers". The Boston Globe. 1988-05-02. p. 26. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  41. "archives.nypl.org -- Leon Kirchner papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  42. Riggs, Robert (2010). Leon Kirchner: Composer, Performer, and Teacher. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. p. 301. ISBN   978-1-58046-343-0.
  43. "The Boston Conservatory presents The New Music Ensemble / Alec Wilder [and others]". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  44. "Faculty composers concert / John Clement Adams, Larry Bell, Chris Rozé". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  45. "Cascades : (1994) / Su Lian Tan. Tango / Astor Piazzola. Trilogy : (1995) / Augusta Read Thomas. Fantasy duo for cello and percussion : (1996) / John Clement Adams. Preludes / Ruth Crawford Seeger. Preludes: (1923) / George Gershwin". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  46. "Chamber Players show their chops". The Boston Globe. 1997-04-08. p. 53. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  47. Adams, John Clement. Affirmations: for baritone, chorus, and orchestra. OCLC   63689283.