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John Adams
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Composer John Adams conducting, Credit: Lambert Orkis
We’ll hear an incredible set from the Berlin Philharmonic playing John Adams on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Composer John Adams: Creating American Classical music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: John Adams, Credit: Deborah O'Grady
Composer John Adams reflects on his creating American music that’s intense, sensual and meaningful.

Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Feelings)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...

Bought by WETS and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
John Luther Adams: Bad Decisions and Finding Home
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
Caption: John Luther Adams, Credit: Evan Hurd / Cantaloupe Music
John Luther Adams made all of the wrong career decisions. He got kicked out of multiple high schools, went to the "wrong" college, never finished h...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why to Build an Aeolian Harp with John Luther Adams
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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In a quest to understand the Aeolian Harp, an interview with composer John Luther Adams.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 40:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Luther Adams: Music at the End of the World
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re getting a broad course in listening here, a sense of how a minimalist composer maxes out on sound, and how we, too, might make the most of th...

Bought by KALW, WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
John Luther Adams: Tuning in the sound of a frozen world
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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It was John Cage who suggested that music was always in the air, and John Luther Adams has been tapping that sound for over 30 years. His evocative...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Bonus Track - The Wind in High Places by John Luther Adams
From: WQXR
Series: Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1
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Gordon Wright, the Alaskan composer, conductor, professor, and environmentalist, was John Luther Adams's best friend. When he died suddenly in 200...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 24:07
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Kiss of Death)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When composer John Adams attends a concert that features his music, he looks forward to hearing what the audience has to say -- as long as they don...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :17
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Hallelujah Junction)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What came first, the chicken or the egg -- the music's title or the music itself? Composer John Adams talks about the origin of his extroverted wo...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :27
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Grumpy Players)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Leila Josefowicz (Playing John Adams)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Two modern day rebels meet up in this clip that introduces Leila Josefowicz's performance of (either) Adams' Road Movies or his Violin Concerto. Th...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 2
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Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota 
5 Pieces

From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, Meet the Composer is a five-part radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Featuring host Nadia Sirota with composers John Luther Adams (2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Donnacha Dennehy, Marcos Balter, and Andrew Norman.

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Dec 03, 2014
Thoughts In Sound Episode #5 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Composing for the Post-Apocalypse
From: John Diliberto
Series: Thoughts in Sound
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A titan of modern music contemplates the spiritual and theoretical dimensions of sound

  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
22-27 Music by Bach, Albeniz, Ponce, John Brunning, and Adam Levin interview
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Great Necks Guitar Trio, Credit: Great Necks Guitar Trio
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Bach, British composer and broadcaster John Brunning, Albeniz, Ponce, and a 2022 i...

Bought by Ohm Radio , WEKU, KXIQ , Public Radio East, WHQR and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 60
Virtuoso Voices - Robert Spano (Adams' Accomplishment)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Robert Spano
The New York Philharmonic commissioned composer John Adams to write a new work for the first anniversary of 9/11. Instead of writing music for tho...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 31, 2009
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 1 
10 Pieces

From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, Meet the Composer is a Peabody-Award winning five-part radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Featuring host Nadia Sirota with composers John Luther Adams (2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music), Donnacha Dennehy, Marcos Balter, and Andrew Norman.

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Jun 07, 2016
23-6 Adam Levin Interview, Music by Bach, Albeniz, Ponce
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Adam Levin
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music by Bach, British composer and broadcaster John Brunning, Albeniz, Ponce, and an inter...

Bought by Ohm Radio , New Hampshire Public Radio, WPVM 103.7, KMUN, Classic107.3 and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 60
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Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota - Season 2 
10 Pieces

From New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music, Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning five-part radio series that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most engaging, innovative, and beautiful music today. Season 2 features host Nadia Sirota with Meredith Monk, Kaija Saariaho, Ingram Marshall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Nico Muhly

  • From: WQXR
  • Updated: Jun 07, 2016
A Farewell to John Ashbery
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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John Ashbery seemed to lower, not raise, his voice when he spoke his poems.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , and KALW


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight - Big Richard - 825
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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What began as an all-female festival collaboration quickly morphed into a serious passion project driven by sisterhood, harmony and humor - along w...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Nervous Composers)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you're a conductor, it's helpful to have a living composer at your side to answer questions about their music that may come up during rehearsals...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
America's Melting Pot
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cover of Theater Programme for Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot", Credit: Wikipedia
We’ll speak to some talented conductors in America’s melting pot from Finland and Poland, plus the young composer Adam Schoenberg

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Emerging Artists
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Elizabeth Joy Roe, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
We’ll hear some amazing musicians you might not know, including Pultizer Prize winner John Luther Adams and pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe on today’s Wh...

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green 
104 Pieces

"Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green" is a radio series devoted to living American composers and their works. Update: all of Season Ten is now available for auditioning/download!


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