America’s senior composer is 75 today
OrchestrasThe indefatigable John Adams, born February 15, 1947, is working on a Shakespeare opera, Anthony and Cleopatra, due to open in San Francisco in September.
He has often spoken of the gulf between what he does as a composer and how Americans perceive what a composer does. He once told me than none of his middle-class, academic neighbours in California had ever set foot in an opera house.
He’s still working to get them in there.
Happy birthday, John.
His best aria?
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