John Adams’ ‘Absolute Jest’ in San Francisco
By admin on March 16, 2012 | Category: Press | No CommentsBy Mark Swed | Los Angeles Times
When John Adams was a young composer and conductor in San Francisco in the early ’70s, he would often perform the experimental music of John Cage and other radicals, which was the hip thing to do at the time. But he has said that all that avant-garde business could leave him musically dissatisfied, and he’d go home and put on recordings of late Beethoven string quartets.
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