San Francisco Symphony performs “Carmina burana” and John Adams “After the Fall” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 and Jan. 18 and 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco.

Vikingur Olafsson, left, and John Adams at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where “After the Fall” will have its premiere on Thursday.Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times ...

Elder himself commented on how varied and unorthodox the night’s program was, but he did a masterful job of pulling together ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

The John Adams Center, at Masonic and Hayes, is housed in the beautiful, historic, and modernized, Lowell school building, right in the middle of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The John Adams ...

San Francisco Symphony performs "Carmina burana" and John Adams "After the Fall" at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16 and Jan. 18 and 2 p.m. Jan. 19 at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco.

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...