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	John Adams (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Adams (1735–1826) was the second President of the United States.
		John Adams (mayor) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
		John Adams (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England
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	John Coolidge Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, with strong roots in minimalism.
		John Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1947 and graduated from Harvard University in 1971.
		John Adams became the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Association in June 2003.
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	John Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second President of the United States, whose term lasted from 1797 to 1801.
		John Adams was born the oldest of three brothers on October 30, 1735 (October 19 by the Old Style, Julian Calendar), in Braintree, Massachusetts, though in an area which became part of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1792.
		On June 7, 1776, Adams seconded the resolution introduced by Richard Henry Lee that "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of these resolutions before the Congress until their adoption on July 2, 1776.
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		John Crouch the printer first appears on the scene in 1647 as the writer of occasional counterfeits of Mercurius Melancholicus and Pragmaticus.
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		Adams, John (1735-1826), second president (1797-1801) and first vice-president (1789-1797) of the United States, and leader in the movement for...
		Adams, John Coolidge (1947- ), American composer and conductor, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University.
		Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848), sixth president of the United States (1825-1829), who combined brilliant statesmanship with skilful diplomacy.
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	Program Notes - Printer-Friendly
		I happened to be browsing in Mann’s letters around the time I went to visit John Adams to speak with him about this piece of his, and it struck—and amused—me for a moment to think that Mann, at least in principle, would have thoroughly approved of Adams’s not at all incestuous and filtered art.
		Music, for John Adams, is a way of responding to the world in which he lives, one that both dismays him and gives him deep pleasure.
		John had his first playing experience sitting beside his father and among local worthies such as the town jeweler, garage mechanic, and English teacher, playing in such organizations as the band of the town’s mental hospital and the Nevers Second Regimental Band.
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	President John Adams: Health & Medical History
		Adams, as a teenager, was described by his father: "He was almost a man grown.
		Adams was told to avoid meats, spices, and spirits in favor of bread, milk, vegetables, and water.
		Fourteen years later, Adams was still on this "milk and toast" diet [1c], leading to one description of him as a "food faddist" [2c].
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - John Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adams, John (U.S. president) (1735-1826), second president of the United States (1797-1801) and one of the great figures in American history.
		Adams, John Coolidge (composer), born in 1947, American composer and conductor, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University....
		Adams, John Couch (astronomer) (1819-1892), English astronomer and mathematician, who predicted the existence of the planet Neptune.
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	aworks :: "new" american classical music: In the White Silence (1998). John Luther Adams
		John (and Abigail) Adams' son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States, defeating Andrew Jackson in the election of 1824, when, lacking a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives voted him to ofice.
		John Coolidge Adams is the Berkeley-residing, post-minimalist, baby boomer composer who wrote the music for the opera Nixon in China.
		John Luther Adams, slightly younger than John Coolidge Adams, is the Alaska-residing, post-minimalist composer who writes music greatly influenced by his Northern environment.
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	John Adams - The History Beat - SearchBeat.com
		John Adams was the second president (1797-1801) of the United States.
		Adams was born on the 30th of October, 1735 in what is now the town of Quincy, Massachusetts.
		On the 8th of June he was appointed on a committee with Jefferson, Franklin, Livingston and Sherman to draft a Declaration of Independence; and although that document was by the request of the committee written by Thomas Jefferson, it was John Adams who occupied the foremost place in the debate on its adoption.
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	John Adams
		The article on Adams is several pages long and discusses both his biography and his works in some detail.
		John Adams is an articulate and engaging conversationalist, which makes interviews with him a joy to read, and which also makes authors and journalists eager to interview him.
		Boosey and Hawkes: Composers and Repertoire: John Adams.
	ils.unc.edu /~cpellegr/pathfinder/adams.html (762 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Adams, American composer (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A clarinetist, he studied composition at Harvard (B.A. Often regarded as the most outstanding, technically adept, and influential composer of his generation, Adams has written in numerous genres, bringing to his compositions a keen sense of the theatrical and the vernacular.
		His distinctive sound is a mixture of post-minimalism with an intensely emotional expansiveness and a range of expressive tonal elements reminiscent of late romanticism and early modernism.
		Adams is best known for operas on topical themes, including Nixon in China (1987), The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995).
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	aworks :: "new" american classical music: adams, john
		Adams' artistic skill and contrapuntal ingenuity weave this sonic collage into a heart-breaking, deeply moving memorial that seems to encompass all of the grief, anger and transcendance of those tragic events of three years ago.
		In his program notes (PDF), Adams describes the women of the scientists suffering while their husbands labored to build the atomic bomb and how the text he used from the poet Muriel Rukeyser goes from despair to hope.
		John Adams comments on his new opera Doctor Atomic based on J.
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	Composer captures essence of today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adams discovered his own style and, in 1987, a measure of celebrity with his opera "Nixon in China" --- a novel approach to a centuries-old art form, and an effort, as Shakespeare did in his history plays, to turn politics into legend.
		At 56, Adams is a soft-voiced speaker, eloquent and observant, quick to find humor, with a graying beard and the bemused air of an academic.
		Adams' story begins in the tiny town of East Concord, N.H., where he was a precocious musician.
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	John Adams
		John Adams was vice president during both of George Washington's terms and served as chief executive himself from 1797 to 1801.
		This likeness was begun in Philadelphia during his presidency, and shows Adams at sixty-five years of age; however, like its companion portrait, Abigail Smith Adams, it was not finished until fifteen years after the couple sat for Stuart.
		The pose of this first study of Adams inspired Stuart's replica in the Gibbs-Coolidge Set of the first five presidents.
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	Arts Music Composition Composers A Adams, John Coolidge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adams, John Coolidge - Educational background, styles and genres, and significant compositions from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
		John Adams - Biographical sketch, commentary on his stage and orchestral works, and Naxos discography.
		John Adams: A Vast Synthesising Approach - He discusses the creative process, his early days, branding, Naive and Sentimental Music, minimalism, Shaker Loops, scales, computer automation of composition, and other topics.
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	Program Notes
		As Adams describes it, “The first movement is an ‘essay on melody’ and is governed by the ‘naive/sentimental’ tune, a melody that.
		It was then that John told me that Salonen had asked him for a piece, a “grand” piece (not some diddly little curtain raiser), and I could see that he was truly excited about the prospect of writing something with Brucknerian sweep.
		John and I had always admired—somewhat secretly—the epic scores of Bruckner, and those of Sibelius as well, not only for their deep brooding qualities, but also for their paradigms of Nature and amazingly resourceful use of the orchestra.
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	Dairianathan, Eugene I. (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The works of John Adams (1947-) depart from the Minimalist tradition despite the congruity.
		A technique Adams admits to is the use of modulation in his compositions.
		John Adams' departure from the Minimalist tradition is a somewhat similar predicament faced earlier by Franz Schubert.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Archive/Disserts/dairia.html (369 words)

	John Adams
		Though a Federalist, Adams did not get along with Hamilton, who sought to prevent his election to the presidency in 1796 and thereafter intrigued against his administration.
		John Adams, American composer - Adams, John (John Coolidge Adams), 1947–, American composer, b.
		John Adams, 2d President of the United States - Adams, John, 1735–1826, 2d President of the United States (1797–1801), b.
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	John Adams
		Born on the Fourth of July - Famous Americans who share their birthdays with the U.S. John Adams - Author: David McCullough Publisher: Simon and Schuster For those readers who prefer to remain...
		John Couch Adams - Adams, John Couch, 1819–92, English astronomer, grad.
		John Adams et Gareth Hardres-Williams observent la vigne à Valvignères en Ardèche John Adams, viticulteur à Tawonga (Austr.
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	JOHN ADAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The children of John and Abigail were Abigail Amelia Adams (1765- 1813), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Susanna Adams (1768- 1770), Charles Adams (1770-1800), and Thomas Boylston Adams (772-1832).
		Political career: An early leader of the Revolution, Adams attended the Continental Congresses and was on the committee to write the Declaration of Independence.
		John Adams has been the least understood and appreciated.
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	John Adams & American Minimalism Pathfinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Adams is one of the most prolific and popular composers active in America today.
		Adams is a "second generation" minimalist; younger than pioneers Steve Reich and Philip Glass, he expanded upon their revolutionary work and brought the music to an even wider audience.
		Adams also conducts, leading major symphony orchestras in performances of his own and other composers' works.
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	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the Transmigration of Souls, a new work by John Adams, will be given its world première by the New York Philharmonic and the New York Choral Artists, conducted by new music director Lorin Maazel, next month.
		The work, for orchestra and chorus, was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the terrorist atrocities of September 11.
		Adams described himself as ‘deeply honoured by this request from the New York Philharmonic.’
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	John Adams, American composer
		Atomic blow- up in London Next week John Adams, the most popular composer of serious music since Britten, conducts an extract of his new opera at the Proms, and it's about weapons of mass destruction
		The Arts: Notes from a west-coast icon John Adams is the composer who made Nixon and Mao Tse-Tung sing arias.
		Arts: A short ride with a fast composer; In the next three days London will hear a 23-year retrospective of the often controversial work of John Adams.
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	John Adams
		Adams' newest opera, Doctor Atomic, premiering October 2005, is also a collaboration with Sellars.
		The action of the opera is centered on the very first test of the atomic bomb, and is mainly about J. Robert Oppenheimer.
		Not to be confused with another postminimalist composer, John Luther Adams.
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		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dix John Adams
		Dix, John Adams (1798-1879), American political leader active in the antislavery movement.
		Search for books about your topic, "Dix John Adams"
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	PostClassic:
		The estimable Frank Oteri asked me for a report on John Luther Adams's sound installation The Place Where You Go to Listen for New Music Box, so instead of rambling about it here, I wrote it up real good for him, and it's now over there.
		The title, "A Long Ride in a Slow Machine," comes from a joke John made about the difference between his career and that of the other John Adams, whom we tend to refer to as John Coolidge Adams.
		Posted by: John Shaw at March 30, 2006 06:20 PM Post a comment
	www.artsjournal.com /postclassic/2006/03/das_lied_von_der_erde_indeed.html (476 words)

	President John Tyler: Health & Medical History
		Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (American Presidency Series)
		The John Tyler web page at the White House.
		Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Tyler.
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