Composers Performers

John Coolidge Adams

John Coolidge Adams (b. 1947)

USA · Minimalism (1970 - 2023)

As a performer: conductor

A Flowering Tree, opera (2007)
Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra (2010)
After the Fall, for piano and orchestra (2023-24)
American Berserk (2001)
Century Rolls, Piano Concerto (1996)
Chamber Symphony (1992)
China Gates (1977)
Christian Zeal and Activity (1973)
City Noir (2009)
Common Tones In Simple Time (1979)
Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (2013)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1993)
Doctor Atomic Symphony (2007)
Doctor Atomic, opera (2005)
El Dorado (1991)
El Niño, opera-oratorio (2000)
Eros Piano (1989)
Fearful Symmetries (1988)
Frenzy, a Short Symphony (2023)
Girls of the Golden West (2017)
Gnarly Buttons (1996)
Grand Pianola Music (1982)
Guide to Strange Places (2001)
Hallelujah Junction (1996)
Harmonielehre (The Teaching of Harmony), suite for orchestra (1985)
Harmonium for orchestra and choir (1980)
Hoodoo Zephyr (1993)
I Still Dance (2019)
I Still Play, for piano (2017)
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, songplay (1995)
John`s Book Of Alleged Dances (1994)
Light Over Water, symphony for Brass and recording (1983)
Lollapalooza (1995)
Must The Devil Have All The Good Tunes? (Piano Concerto) (2018)
My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003)
Naive and Sentimental Music, for orchestra (1998)
Nixon in China, opera (1985-87)
On the Transmigration of Souls (2002)
Opera `Antony and Cleopatra` (2022)
Phrygian Gates (1977)
Road Movies (1995)
Roll Over Beethoven, for two pianos (2014)
Scheherazade.2, dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra (2014)
Scratchband, for ensemble (1996)
Shaker Loops (1978)
Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for Great Woods) (1986)
Slonimsky`s Earbox (1996)
Son Of Chamber Symphony (2007)
String Quartet (2008)
String Quartet № 2 (2014)
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) (1985)
The Death of Klinghoffer (1991)
The Dharma at Big Sur (2003)
The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2012)
The Wound-Dresser (1989)
Tromba Lontana, for two trumpets and orchestra (1986)