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BOX 55-58, 69, 91, 128, 131-135 | Biographical Materials, 1954-2016 | ||||||||||||
This series consists of materials related to Adams's personal life and career, including datebooks and calendars, transcripts of interviews with Adams, awards and materials that pertain to them, schoolwork, and family documents. It also includes writings by Adams and others. | |||||||||||||
Chiefly arranged alphabetically by folder title. Awards are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/1 | Address books, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/2 | Artwork, undated | ||||||||||||
Awards and Honors | |||||||||||||
BOX 132 | Music Award for Chamber Scale Composition, Royal Philharmonic Society, 1993 | ||||||||||||
BOX 132 | New York City Ballet gold lyre pin, Northwestern University, 1988 | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Grammy Award, 1989 | ||||||||||||
BOX 134 | Harvard University Alumni Association Commencement Chief Marshall baton, 1994 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/3 | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier, Ministère de la Culture, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX 135 | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier, Ministère de la Culture, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/4 | Cyril Magnan Award, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX 132 | Cyril Magnan Award, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/5 | Grawemeyer Music Award, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/6 | Stolichnaya Arts Achievement Award, San Francisco Focus Magazine, 1996 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/7 | American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/1 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX 135 | Cal Performances Exceptional Achievement in the Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Best Living Composer, Classical Insites, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Grammy Award, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/8-9 | Pulitzer Prize, 2003 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/10 | University of Oregon Creativity Award, 2003 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 131/1 | American Music Center, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Grammy Awards (2), 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/11, 128/1 | Harvard University Centennial Medalist, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/12 | Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition, Northwestern University, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX 135 | Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition, Northwestern University, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/2 | San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Contemporary Music Award, 2005 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 128/2 | Cultural Leadership Citation, Yale University, 2007 | ||||||||||||
BOX 135 | Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal in Nonfiction, 2008 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/13 | Northwestern University Honorary Doctorate, 2008 | ||||||||||||
BOX 135 | Distinguished Achievement Award, Opera News, 2008 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/3 | Honorary Doctorate, Duquesne University, 2009 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/14, 128/3 | Juilliard School, 2011 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/15 | Harvard University Honorary Doctorate, 2012 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/16 | The Association for Promotion of Study of Latin, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/17-20 | Biographies, 1992-1995 and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 133 | Carnegie Hall: Three Great Stages One Great Hall, 2003 | ||||||||||||
Commemorative plexicube | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/21 | Concert performance lists, 1989-1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 55/22 to 56/8 | Datebooks, 1979-2001 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/4 | Diploma: Bachelor of Arts in Music, Magna cum Laude, Harvard University, 1969 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/5 | Diploma: Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1972 | ||||||||||||
Family | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/9 | Emily Adams birth announcement, 1984 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/10 | Rosa cremation certificate, 1990 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/11 | Jim Irwin, Sr., "Young Man with a Horn," undated | ||||||||||||
Interviews | |||||||||||||
American Music Series | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/12 | Marshall, Ingram, 1999 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/13-14 | Perlis, Vivian, 1983, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/15 | Plush, Vincent, 1983 | ||||||||||||
BBC | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/16-17 | Radio 3 - Porter, Andrew, 1988 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/18 | Radio 4, Kaleidoscope - Steyn, Mark, 1988 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/19 | World Service, Music Now - Palmer, Bernard, 1988 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/20 | Kühnen, Wolfgang, 1997 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/21 | Spindler, Wolfgang, 1993 | ||||||||||||
Strickland, Edward | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/22 | American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music, 1990 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/23 | "From Richard Nixon to Walt Whitman": An Interview with John Adams (Fanfare Magazine), 1990 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 56/24 | Ueno, Ken, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/1 | Journals, 1976-1977 and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/2 | Language study notebooks: French, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/3 | Language study notebooks: German, 1979, 1992 and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/4 | Passports, 1987-2007 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 69/10 | Peace Corps application instruction, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/5 | Report cards: Concord Union School District, 1954-1956 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/6 | Report card: Concord High School, 1962-1963 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 128/4 | "Ripple the Sky," by Jacob Cooper, 2016 | ||||||||||||
Inscribed first page of score | |||||||||||||
Note: Adams was the conductor for the world premiere of this work | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/7 | Robert Frost Club, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/8 | Schoolwork: A Century of Nationalism, 1960 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/9 | Technical manuals and instructions, 1989, 1994, and undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/10 | Tributes, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 91/6-10, 128/5-9 | Wall calendars, 1981-1996 | ||||||||||||
Writings by John Adams | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/11 | "Adams über seine Musik," Oper Frankfurt program, 1993 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/12 | California Governor's Awards in the Arts acceptance speech, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/13 | David Huntley, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/14 | "Elliott Carter, 1908-2012," The Amphion Foundation, 2013 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/15 | "Goldberg Variations," New European Strings Chamber Orchestra, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/16 | Grawemeyer Award lecture, 1995 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/17 | Introductory essay, Midwest Trust Center Orchestra Residence book, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/18 | Ives: The Amount to Carry, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/19 | "John Adams Sends Philip Glass Packing," California Magazine, 1986 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/20 | Journal entries, 1987-1994 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/21 | Leon Kirchner, 1985 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/22-24 | "The Making of American Music," BBC, 1990 and undated | ||||||||||||
Alternate title: "Singing the Body Electric" | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/25 | "New Music: A Legacy Fulfilled," The San Francisco Conservatory of Music Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 1, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/26 | Program and liner notes, undated | ||||||||||||
Writings by Others | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/27 | Antonsen, Rachel and Preben Pickard. Dog Days and Olive Branches, Poems and Prose. Berkeley, California, 1999 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/28 | Antonsen, Rachel and Preben Pickard. Hyggellige 1 Danmark. Berkeley, California, 2000 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 57/29 | Betz, Madelyn L. "The Story of Isaiah in John Adams's 'El Niño,'" Episcopal Divinity School, 2008 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/1 | Cahill, Sara. "Adams, John (Coolidge)." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. New York: Grove, 2001 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/2 | Colvig, William. "An American Gamelan," undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/10 | Commissioning Music. Meet the Composer, Inc., 1984 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/3 | Coppola, Francis Ford. "Megalopolis." Unpublished manuscript, 2001 | ||||||||||||
Typescript | |||||||||||||
Includes: Correspondence from Coppola | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/4 | Cott, Jonathan. "The Desert Music: Steve Reich in Conversation with Jonathan Cott." Writings About Music, 1965-2000. Edited by Paul Hillier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 69/11 | Dresher, Robin Kirck. Diary. Unpublished manuscript, 1993-1999 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/5 | Duplay, Mathieu. "I See Water and Buildings: Motif et Devenir dans On the Transmigration of Souls de John Adams." Motifs, motifs: Linguistique, littérature, philosophie, no. 23, 2005 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/6 | Harrison, Lou. Instruction Manual: The Colvig-Harrison Monochord, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/7 | Johnson, Dennis. Unpublished manuscript, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/8 | Jordan, June. "Lebanon," 1996 | ||||||||||||
Typescript | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/9 | McClure, Michael. "Coyote in Chains (Prometheus Board)." Unpublished manuscript, 2012 | ||||||||||||
Typescript | |||||||||||||
Includes: Correspondence from McClure | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/11 | Rathbone, Christopher. "Nixon in China - An Opera by John Adams." Edinburgh Review, vol. 84, 1984 | ||||||||||||
Note: Inscribed to John Adams | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/12 | Sellars, Peter. The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez. Unpublished manuscript, 1988 | ||||||||||||
Typescript | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 69/12 | Unidentified. "A Confession." Unpublished manuscript, 2001 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 69/13 | Unidentified. "Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party," undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 69/14 | Unidentified. "Parody outline (Time Line - Julius)," undated | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 58/13 | Unidentified. Program notes, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 58-64, 129, 131 MAPCASE FOLDER 1, 4 | Programs and Promotional Material, 1964-2017 | ||||||||||||
This series documents performances of Adams’s compositions and his appearances as conductor and/or performer. Promotional materials include flyers, mailings, and posters. | |||||||||||||
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