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CLEVELAND, Ohio - John Adams, who started pounding on his bass drum in support of the Cleveland Indians/Guardians back at old Municipal Stadium, has died. He was 71.

John Adams did more than just bang on a base drum for the Indians and Guardians.

Cleveland picked a drummer, John Adams. For nearly 50 years Adams showed up at the ballpark, Municipal Stadium or Progressive Field, to bang his bass drum for the Indians and the Guardians.

After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world.

John Adams, an American Master at 75 Adams, arguably our greatest living composer, has done operas inspired by recent history. In “Antony and Cleopatra,” he turns to Shakespeare.

There is currently no memorial to John Adams, John Quincy Adams and their family in Washington. Congress authorized the Adams Memorial Commission to fix this oversight.

Listening Closely to John Adams The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work?

John Adams, a Cleveland baseball superfan that served as a ballpark drummer for nearly 50 years, died at 71, the Cleveland Guardians announced Monday.

John Adams, in the final months of his administration, became the first American president to live in the new executive mansion, later dubbed the White House, on Nov. 1, 1800.