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John Adams

Woyimba ndi wokonda waku America; woimira kutsogolera kalembedwe kamene otchedwa. minimalism (makhalidwe - laconism of texture, kubwerezabwereza kwa zinthu), zoyimiridwa mu nyimbo za ku America ndi Steve Raik ndi Philip Glass, zimaphatikizidwa ndi zinthu zambiri zachikhalidwe.

Adams anabadwira ku Worcester, Massachusetts pa February 15, 1947. Bambo ake anamuphunzitsa kuimba clarinet, ndipo anachita bwino kwambiri moti, monga wophunzira pa yunivesite ya Harvard, nthawi zina amatha kulowa m’malo mwa woimba wa clarinet mu Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mu 1971, atamaliza maphunziro ake, adasamukira ku California, adayamba kuphunzitsa ku San Francisco Conservatory (1972-1982) ndipo adatsogolera wophunzira wa Ensemble for New Music. Mu 1982-1985 adalandira maphunziro a wolemba kuchokera ku San Francisco Symphony.

Adams adayamba kukopa chidwi ndi septet ya zingwe (Shaker Loops, 1978): ntchitoyi idayamikiridwa ndi otsutsa chifukwa cha kalembedwe kake koyambirira, komwe kumaphatikiza avant-gardism ya Glass ndi Reik ndi mawonekedwe achikondi a neo-romantic ndi nkhani zoimba. Zanenedwanso kuti panthawiyi, Adams anathandiza anzake akuluakulu Glass ndi Ryke kupeza njira yatsopano yopangira, kumene kukhwima kwa kalembedwe kumachepetsedwa ndipo nyimbo zimapangidwira kwa omvera ambiri.

Mu 1987, Adams 'Nixon ku China adayamba ku Houston ndi kupambana kwakukulu, opera yochokera ku ndakatulo za Alice Goodman ponena za msonkhano wa mbiri yakale wa Richard Nixon ndi Mao Zedong mu 1972. Mizinda ya ku Ulaya; kujambula kwake kunakhala kogulitsa kwambiri. Chipatso chotsatira cha mgwirizano pakati pa Adams ndi Goodman chinali opera The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) kutengera nkhani ya kugwidwa kwa sitima yapamadzi ndi zigawenga zaku Palestine.

Ntchito zina zodziwika bwino za Adams zikuphatikiza Phrygian Gates (1977), nyimbo yanthawi yayitali komanso ya virtuoso ya piyano; Harmonium (1980) ya okhestra yayikulu ndi kwaya; Kuwala Kopezeka (1982) ndi chosangalatsa chamagetsi chopangidwa ndi Lucinda Childs; "Music for Grand Piano" (Grand Pianola Music, 1982) ya piano yochulukitsidwa (mwachitsanzo, kuyimba kwa zida zochulukitsidwa pakompyuta) ndi orchestra; "Kuphunzitsa za Harmony" (Harmonienlehre, 1985, umenewo unali mutu wa buku la Arnold Schoenberg) la orchestra ndi "full-length" concerto ya violin (1994).

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