In April and May of 2003, Lincoln Center presented a festival titled John Adams: An American Master, the most extensive festival that the venue has ever devoted to a living composer.

After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world. Vikingur Olafsson, left, and John ...

Olafsson, whose “Johann Sebastian Bach” won BBC Music Magazine’s 2019 Album ... Adams’ “Nixon in China” premiered in 1987. “Once you know as many works by a composer as I do with ...