John Adams is an incredibly awesome San Francisco Bay Area-based composer. You also may have noticed that many of my posts on Twitter are labeled with the #JohnAdamsFanClub hash tag.  I may be biased, but either way, his music is fantastic. b. Feb. 15, 1947 in Worcester, MA John Adams graduated from Concord High School [...]

Yeah, so guess what. John Adams blogs, too! This so just made my day.

Anyone who knows Salon97 knows that we’re huge fans of Bay Area composer, John Adams. He’s just plain fabulous. Not only does he write fantastically invigorating music, but he apparently can write quite a memoir, too. I was extremely excited to hear this week that he will be awarded the 2009 NEA Opera Honors Award. [...]