Book description
John Adams is one of the most admired and performed living
composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has
built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of
his music. Hallelujah Junction isn't so much an autobiography as a
fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life and
times, centred around the three highly controversial operas based on
social and political issues he has written in the past twenty-five
years - Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and, most recently,
Dr Atomic.
John Adams was born in Massachusetts in 1947. He is the composer
of such acclaimed works as Harmonielehre, Nixon in China, Naive and
Sentimental Music, El Nino, and On The Transmigration of Souls, which
won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. He lives in Berkeley, California.
