Tracing A Composer's Awakening
John Adams's new memoir, Hallelujah Junction, reads like a gentle repudiation of the idea, popular at mid-century, that audience approval is irrelevant to classical music. "He knew at once, he says, that atonality, far from being the promised land that Schoenberg and Babbitt had predicted, was a dead end." The New York Times 10/08/08

Posted October 8, 2008 05:20 AM