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Mark Adamo is an American composer-librettist. He first attracted national attention with his uniquely celebrated début opera, Little Women, after the Alcott novel. Introduced by Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and revived there in 2000, Little Women is one of the most frequently performed American operas of the last fifteen years, with more than 135 national and international engagements in cities ranging from New York to London, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Adelaide, Perth, Mexico City, Brugges, Banff, Calgary, and Tokyo. While Adamo's principal work continues to be for the opera house, over the past five years, he has ventured not only into chamber music but also into symphonic and choral composition.

He began his education in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where, as a freshman in the Dramatic Writing Program, he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music Degree cum laude in composition in 1990 from the Catholic University of America. He and his spouse, the composer John Corigliano, divide their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Born in Sicily, the international singer and composer, Salvatore Adamo, was the son of a well-digger; the family moved to Belgium when he was three years old. As a child, one of seven children, he was stricken with meningitis and confined to bed for several years. From this inauspicious beginning, he became the best-selling Belgian musician of all time, singing mostly in French but also in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese and Turkish. His career was launched when he won the top prize in Paris of a 1960 Radio-Luxembourg competition. He was soon famous, but his father drowned in 1966 and was thus not able to witness the subsequent peak of his son’s celebrity. His albums and singles have sold over 100 million copies. For a while in the 1980s, his emotional vocal style went out of fashion but in the 1990s his career revived due to a wave of nostalgia. In 1993, he was appointed Belgium’s honorary UNICEF ambassador, a post that involved worldwide travel. In 1998, he made an album commenting upon racism and Bosnia’s civil war. In 2001, he was knighted by King Albert II of Belgium, with the noble title of “Ridder.” The following year he was named Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.

Ann Adams appears to have been a Wesleyan Protestant living in Montreal, who at some point was employed sewing and may have lived in Saint Charles. She had at least two children.

Educated as an architect and architectural historian at UC Berkeley, Adams is jointly appointed in McGill University’s School of Architecture and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (U Minn Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (UTP, 2000). Recent awards include the Faculty of Engineering’s Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (2016) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Media (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

In 1975, he became a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil Engineering. He served as Chair of the Environmental Engineering Program in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and then as Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering until 2004. He has consulted in Canada and abroad on water resources and environmental engineering studies with engineering and legal firms, agencies, commissions, municipalities, and the Crown. He was a member of the Province of Ontario’s Environmental Appeal Board and the Environmental Assessment Board and is currently a member of the Advisory Board, Research in Construction at the National Research Council of Canada. Barry has published over 90 papers, books, and book chapters and 45 technical reports in the field of water resources and urban infrastructure. He has conducted innovative research in the development of probabilistic models for urban water resource infrastructure system planning and design and wrote the first major textbook on this subject. Adams is a Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto.

Benjamin Adams was a Connecticut-born naturalist, librarian, and ornithologist who was a longtime member of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). In 1911, he was elected a member of the AOU, dedicating much of his personal time to studying bird populations and regional wildlife. Outside of his natural history pursuits, he worked professionally at the New York Public Library. He is recognized in historical registers like the Harvard Library Bio-Bibliography of New England Naturalists. He also contributed heavily to preserving local heritage, collecting artifacts and materials for the Old Academy Museum in Wethersfield.Benjamin Adams was a Connecticut-born naturalist, ornithologist, and librarian who devoted much of his life to the study of birds and regional wildlife. A longtime member of the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU), he was elected to the organization in 1911 and remained actively engaged in ornithological research and observation. Professionally, Adams worked at the New York Public Library, balancing his career with a strong commitment to natural history. He is documented in reference works such as the Harvard Library Bio-Bibliography of New England Naturalists and is also remembered for his efforts to preserve local history. Through the collection of artifacts and historical materials, he made significant contributions to the Old Academy Museum in Wethersfield, helping to safeguard the community’s cultural heritage.