Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, right, and John Adams, the organizations creative chair, left, attend a news conference announcing Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural season as director Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in Los Angeles. AP Photo logo AP Photo 10 months ago

Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, right, and John Adams, the organizations creative chair, left, attend a news conference announcing Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural season as director Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in Los Angeles.

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  1. In this photo provided by the National Endowment for the Arts shows from left: stage director and librettist Frank Corsaro, opera house director Lotfi Mansouri, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman, conductor Julius Rudel and composer John Adams at the NEA Opera Honors Awards in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. The event hosted by actor/singer Brian Stokes Mitchell and mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, honored Adams, Corsaro, Horne, Mansouri and Rudel. Justice Ginsburg called the event to order.

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  1. In this photo provided by the National Endowment for the Arts shows from left: stage director and librettist Frank Corsaro, opera house director Lotfi Mansouri, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman, conductor Julius Rudel and composer John Adams at the NEA Opera Honors Awards in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. The event hosted by actor/singer Brian Stokes Mitchell and mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, honored Adams, Corsaro, Horne, Mansouri and Rudel. Justice Ginsburg called the event to order.
  2. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (C) receives the George Marshall Foundation Award from the foundation's Chairman John Adams (R) as former U.S. Air Force Lt Gen. Brent Scowcroft watches on during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington October 16, 2009. The event was at a luncheon honoring the life of George C. Marshall, on the 50th anniversary of his death.
  3. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, center, flanked by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, left, and John B. Adams Jr., of the George C. Marshall Foundation, receives an award during a luncheon honoring former Secretary of State George C. Marshall, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 at the State Department in Washington.
  4. In this Oct. 6, 2009 photo, John Adams, a Work Source job consultant, left, assists a client filing online employment applications at the Metro North Work Source Center on in Los Angeles. The number of people claiming jobless benefits for the first time dropped less than expected last week, evidence that the labor market remains weak even as the economy is recovering.

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