John Adams, An American Composer

In the late 1960s, Adams attended Harvard University and served as a clarinet player at the band 's Boston Symphony Orchestra. John Coolidge Adams is an American music composer popular in his composition music. His words are well expressed and over the past 25 years his music work has changed into a new, expensive and expressive language. He was born and grew up in New England. In the early days of his life, when he accompanied his father, he learned about marching bands and orchestras.

Wound-Dresser is a 19-minute work for indoor orchestra and baritone singer by American composer John Adams. This work is elegy from the American poet Walt Whitman's poem "The Wound-Dresser" (1865) describing his experience as a hospital volunteer during the American civil war. . It was written for baritone singer Sanford Sylvain premiered at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra supervised by the composer of St. Paul Minnesota on February 24, 1989. It was later recorded by the same unit of Nonesuch Records. Interpreters that have played and recorded since then include Thomas Hampson, Nathan Gun and Jeremy Hew Williams

In the 2016/2017 season, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra appointed American John Adams as its resident artist. In order to start their year of intensive cooperation, Adams performed two of his own works as part of the 2016 Berlin Music Festival, and also celebrated his debut as a conductor . Since they are 30 years apart, the two works 2 of Harmonielehre and Scheherazade offer interesting insights about the development of artists. Sarah Willis, John Adams and Philharmonic singer, talked about his attachment to the tone, the relationship with the avant-garde of the European music of the 20th century, the presence of Berlin, and the artistic friendship with Berlin. Night soloist, American violinist Leila Josefowicz