LAST month marked the anniversary of the death of a great composer who lived on College Green. It’s not Sir Edward Elgar, who ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

On July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Adams and Jefferson both died. While today is celebrated as Independence Day in America, key figures Adams and ...

As today marks July 4th, it's a fitting time to reflect on a remarkable event in American history that unfolded on this very ...

Artists including the musician John Grant have collaborated to find feelings beyond the words of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

Hello, my friend. It’s been a while since we laughed. During opening week of the 76th Aspen Music Festival, I thank you for ...

John Adams was a visionary. Who’d have thought — all these years later — that the fledgling nation he helped create would still be going strong and shining bright as the fireworks that will be ...

A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, ...

Karl E. Held, a producer on the 2009 Broadway production of Ragtime and most recently on the Off Broadway hit Kowalski, died ...

The opera, by the American composer John Adams, depicts the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and their murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound ...