Hallelujah Junction (English)

John Adams is one of America's leading voices in 20th- and 21st-century music. Often identified with minimalism, Adams has evolved a distinctive musical language and crafted resonant, large-scale works such as his operas NIXON IN CHINA and DOCTOR ATOMIC and the Pulitzer Prize-winning choral piece about 9/11, ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. In this memoir, Adams recounts his musical trajectory--starting with his grandparents and going all the way through to the present. Orchestrating a text infused with personal experiences, he offers his thoughts on a wide range of significant individuals, musicians and otherwise, including John Cage, the Beatles, Duke Ellington, and Richard Nixon. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008. minimize