The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer (Amadeus)

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• The John Adams Reader (Essential Writings on an American Composer) Amadeus Series Hardcover by Thomas May

• The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer gathers a colorful and wide-ranging selection of pieces from leading musical commentators and critics

• Included are revealing interviews with the composer as well as eloquent essays by Ingram Marshall, Michael Steinberg, Alex Ross, Sarah Cahill, Alan Rich, and many others

• Editor Thomas May has grouped this collection into four sections: profiles of the artist (including a fascinating memory piece from Ingram Marshall on Adams's early San Francisco years), detailed essays on the major works, interviews with some leading collaborators and interpreters, and critical reception

• This reader should be of use both as an introduction for the general reader to a preeminently significant American artist and as a reference for the more serious student or scholar

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