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January 20 – Adams nominates John Marshall to the Supreme Court to replace Oliver Ellsworth. [1] January 23 – A vote to ratify the Convention of 1800 fails in the Senate with 16 votes in favor and 14 against, falling below the required 20-vote supermajority. [46] January 27 – The Senate confirms Marshall's nomination to the Supreme Court. [1]
Antony and Cleopatra is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022. [1] An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, the libretto was written by John Adams with consultation by Elkhanah Pulitzer and Lucia Scheckner with text from Shakespeare's play, as well as supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other ...
A Flowering Tree is an opera in two acts composed by John Adams with a libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, and commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln Center in New York City, and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.
QUINCY − President John Adams' 288th birthday will be celebrated at noon Monday, Oct. 30, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center.. Cmdr. Mathew Miller ...
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone.The show is based on the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, telling a story of the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to vote for American independence and to sign the document.
The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman.First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the hijackers' murder of a 69-year-old Jewish-American wheelchair-using passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.