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| Biographical Materials, 1954-2016 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||
| Organized as two subseries. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 58-60, 129, 131 | Stage Works, 1983-2017 | ||||||||||||
| This subseries contains programs and promotional material for Adams's large-scale stage works. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by work title. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 58/14 | Available Light, 1983 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 58/15-16, 131/2 | The Death of Klinghoffer, 1990-2005, 2012, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/1-2 | Doctor Atomic, 2005-2008, 2014, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/3 | A Flowering Tree, 2006, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/4 | Girls of the Golden West, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/5 | I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, 1995, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/6 | El Niño, 2000-2003 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 59/7 to 60/2, 129/1 | Nixon in China, 1987-1992, 2011-2012 | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE FOLDER 1 | Nixon in China, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE FOLDER 4 | Nixon in China: Nonesuch recording, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Poster | |||||||||||||
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