When American composer John Adams was getting ready to write his opera Nixon in China, he warmed up his imagination with the image of Chairman Mao... John Adams: Nixon, Minimalism And Mao John Adams: ...

Am I dreaming? Did I really see a living composer of contemporary music given a prolonged standing ovation for conducting his own works in the Bridgewater Hall, twice over?

Last March, nearly a year ago to the day, guest violinist Augustin Hadelich joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to give an impassioned, spellbinding performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. With ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Two forest-themed works and a picture of a noir-suffused city that never sleeps formed a riveting Cleveland Orchestra program on Thursday, April 4, in Mandel Concert Hall at ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...

Around the same time, similar experiments in avant-garde music were being performed in lofts in New York City, and a new genre was emerging. By the end of the 1960s, minimalism had not only solidified ...

CLEVELAND — The first time John Adams tried to squeeze his 26-inch bass drum through the Cleveland Stadium turnstiles, a police officer stopped him. “What are you going to do with that?” the officer ...