John Adams
Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
2008, 1st edition
ISBN 978-0-374-28115-1
340 pp, hardcover, 25 x 16 cm
English
A book unlike anything ever written by a composer โ part memoir, part description and explication of the creative process โ 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
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