Composer John Adams

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Composer

John Adams

Living place: Braintree

Birthday: 15-2-1947 (77 years old)

Population of US 1947: 144,126,071

Global rank: #35630

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Composer John Adams profile

Who is Composer John Adams?
Perhaps most famous for his September 11-themed, Pulitzer Prize-winning choral piece On Transmigration of Souls (2002), Adams is also known for a number of other minimalist musical works, including Short Orchestra Pieces Ride in a Machine Fast and String Septet Work Shaker Loops.
His controversial opera The Death of Klinghoffer was based on the 1985 murder of Leon Klinghoffer during a hijacking plane operation Palestine Liberation Front-organized.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He composed his first musical compositions at the age of ten and later graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in musical composition from Harvard University. During his time at Harvard University, he pursued secondary work as a conductor of the Bach Hoi Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra clarinet.

Family life info

A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended high school in Concord, New Hampshire. During his early years, he studied the clarinet with his musician father.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer John Adams?
He composed a 1987 opera based on President Richard Nixon's early 1970s visit to China.

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When was Composer John Adams born?
John Adams birthday 15-2-1947 (at the age of 77).
Where is Composer John Adams's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts- United States. is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. John Adams's global rank is 35630 and whose rank is 169 in list of famous Composer. Population of US in 1947 is about 144,126,071 persons.
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Events in 1947 and 15-2

Events in US in the birth year of John Adams

  • Hollywood "Black List" created by HUAC.
  • Truman Doctrine proposes "containment" of communist expansion (March 12).
  • Taft-Hartley Act passed. Background: Labor Unions.
  • Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Birthday John Adams (15-2) in history

  • Day 15-2 year 1764: The St. Louis was established. But at that time, it was just a French fur trading station.
  • Day 15-2 year 1879: President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
  • Day 15-2 year 1898: USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
  • Day 15-2 year 1913: The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.
  • Day 15-2 year 1933: Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
  • Day 15-2 year 1965: The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
  • Day 15-2 year 1989: More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
  • Day 15-2 year 2002: Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
  • Day 15-2 year 2003: Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
  • Day 15-2 year 2012: A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.
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