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Convocation
Event:
Lecture
by composer John Adams: "Composing in Time and Place:
Some
Thoughts on Music in Our Time."
8 p.m. Tuesday, March 13
Finney Chapel, West Lorain & North Professor Streets
Free public event
For more
information
please call 440/775-8102.
Sponsored
by:
the Finney Lecture and Student Assemblies committees with support from
the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Office of the President
of Oberlin College.
MARCH 1, 2001--Renowned composer John Adams ("the most vital and eloquent composer in America," New Yorker) will discuss "Composing in Time and Place: Some Thoughts on Music in Our Time" March 13 as part of Oberlin College’s 2000-01 Convocation series.
John Adams, 53, is one of America's most admired and frequently performed composers. Since establishing his reputation in the early 1980s with works such as Harmonielehre, his music has received numerous awards and performances throughout the world.
His first opera, Nixon in China, written in 1983, had a triumphant revival in London last year. A recent orchestral piece, Naive and Sentimental Music is making the rounds of American cities. The Théâtre du Chatelet, in Paris, gave the first performance of El Niño, a two-hour long oratorio on the nativity, last December, and it was performed again in San Francisco in January.
A forthcoming film version of Adams’ 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer--based on the hijacking of the ocean liner Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer--is being produced by Channel Four in Great Britain.
Adams also continues to conduct regularly, appearing with the world's greatest orchestras; future engagements include concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Nonesuch Records has recently released The John Adams Earbox, a 10-CD compilation comprising almost all of the composer's music over a 20-year period.
Concluding the Convocation series on April 19 will be a lecture titled "The Artful Brain: A Neurologist Looks at Human Nature and the Meaning of Art," by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran.
The speaker is professor of neurosciences and psychology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as well as director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory and director of the newly formed Center for Research on Brain and Cognition.
The Convocation series was established last year to continue Oberlin’s long history of inviting distinguished speakers and performers to explore important and compelling issues.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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