That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential and widely performed living American composers of contemporary classical music. It’s fitting that in ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

John Adams was born on October 30 ... but he claimed he was too busy with committee work, so the task fell to Virginian Thomas Jefferson. Adams craved recognition above all, and he privately ...