A book unlike anything ever written by a composer – part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process – Hallelujah Junction is an absorbing journey across the musical landscape of America and through the life and times of John Adams, one of today's most admired and performed composers.

Chapter 9 "Mongrel Airs" contains 4 pages on Frank Zappa:
"During the early 1980s, while I was doing concerts in San Francisco, a friend who had been copying music for Frank Zappa sent me several large orchestra scores by Zappa with the hint that perhaps I might lobby for performances of them with the San Francisco Symphony." (read more)

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