Score-John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshootof the composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'. It has become one of the composer's most popular works. In this piece from the third act of the Opera proto…

Score-John Adams's creative output spans a wide range of media: works for orchestra opera video film and dance as well as electronic and instrumental music. Such pieces as Harmonium Harmonielehre Shaker Loops and The ChairmanDances are among the best known and most frequently performed of contemporary American music. In these works he has taken minimalism into a new and fresh terrain chara…

Full Score. By John Adams. Orchestra. Size 9x12 inches. 64 pages. Published by Associated.