John Adams — Hallelujah Junction
Faber and Faber 2008 Hardback, 352pp. 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 isnt 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. DJ in mylar cover. (ISBN: 9780571231157). Very Good.