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John Adams

Mawaƙin Amurka da madugu; babban wakilin salon da ake kira. minimalism (halayen halaye - laconism na rubutu, maimaita abubuwa), wakilta a cikin kiɗan Amurka ta Steve Raik da Philip Glass, an haɗa su tare da ƙarin fasali na al'ada.

An haifi Adams a Worcester, Massachusetts a ranar 15 ga Fabrairu, 1947. Mahaifinsa ya koya masa yin wasan clarinet, kuma ya yi fice sosai, a matsayinsa na dalibi a Jami'ar Harvard, wani lokaci yana iya maye gurbin dan wasan clarinet a cikin Orchestra na Symphony na Boston. A cikin 1971, bayan ya kammala karatunsa, ya koma California, ya fara koyarwa a San Francisco Conservatory (1972 – 1982) kuma ya jagoranci ƙungiyar ɗalibi don Sabuwar Waƙa. A cikin 1982-1985 ya sami gurbin karatu na mawaki daga San Francisco Symphony.

Adams ya fara jawo hankali tare da septet don kirtani (Shaker Loops, 1978): wannan aikin ya yaba wa masu sukar don salon sa na asali, wanda ya haɗu da avant-gardism na Glass da Reik tare da siffofin neo-romantic da kuma labari na kiɗa. Har ma an yi iƙirarin cewa a cikin wannan lokacin, Adams ya taimaka wa manyan abokan aikinsa Glass da Ryke su sami sabon alkiblar ƙirƙira, inda aka sassauta ƙaƙƙarfan salon kuma ana sanya waƙar ta isa ga yawancin masu sauraro.

A shekarar 1987, Adams' Nixon na kasar Sin ya fara kaddamar da wasan opera a Houston da gagarumin nasara, wasan opera da aka yi kan wakokin Alice Goodman game da ganawar tarihi ta Richard Nixon da Mao Zedong a shekarar 1972. Daga baya an shirya wasan opera a New York da Washington, da ma wasu a wasu wurare. Garuruwan Turai; rikodin ta ya zama mafi kyawun siyarwa. 'Ya'yan itace na gaba na haɗin gwiwa tsakanin Adams da Goodman shine wasan opera The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) dangane da labarin kama jirgin fasinja da 'yan ta'addar Falasdinu suka yi.

Sauran manyan ayyukan da Adams ya yi sun haɗa da Phrygian Gates (1977), ƙayyadaddun ƙayyadaddun ƙayyadaddun ƙayyadaddun kayan aiki na piano; Harmonium (1980) don manyan makada da mawaƙa; Hasken da yake samuwa (1982) wani abu ne mai ban sha'awa na lantarki tare da wasan kwaikwayo na Lucinda Childs; "Kiɗa don Grand Piano" (Grand Pianola Music, 1982) don ɗimbin pianos (watau ƙarar kayan kida ta hanyar lantarki) da ƙungiyar makaɗa; "Koyarwa game da Haɗuwa" (Harmonienlehre, 1985, shine taken littafin Arnold Schoenberg) don ƙungiyar makaɗa da kuma "cikakken tsayi" violin concerto (1994).

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