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.

Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in ...

That piece is not unlike the work of the Bay Area’s John Adams, one of the most influential ... conductor David Robertson and the San Francisco Symphony give the world premiere of the work ...