John Adams and Minimalism

14. Nearly sixty years after the birth of Minimalism, does John Adams still consider himself a Minimalist?

Although Minimalism played a crucial role in shaping his early musical language, John Adams has long resisted being labeled a Minimalist composer. Over the decades, his music has embraced an increasingly broad range of styles, combining the rhythmic vitality of Minimalism with the emotional depth, harmonic richness, and dramatic power of the great orchestral tradition.

Perhaps the best way to think of Adams is not as a Minimalist, but as a composer who began with Minimalism and then made it entirely his own.

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