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Composer of the Week: John Adams

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Alwynne Pritchard talks to
John Adams about his first opera, on the subject of President Nixon's visit to
China, and about the trickster element in his music as revealed in the manic humour of his Fearful Symmetries.
The Chairman Dances San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart News Has a Kind of Mystery (Nixon in China, Act 1) James Maddalena (baritone), Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Edo de Waart
Fearful Symmetries Orchestra of St Luke's, conducted by the Composer

Contributors

Talks:
Alwynne Pritchard
Unknown:
John Adams
Baritone:
James Maddalena
Source: Radio Times

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