{"product_id":"9780571231164-hallelujah-junction","title":"Hallelujah Junction","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComposing an American Life\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's most admired and frequently performed composers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eSometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the timbres and tempi, are seeds you have planted. Composing, bringing forth the final formal arrangement of these elements, is often a business of watching them grow, knowing when to nourish and water them and when to prune and weed.\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book unlike anything ever written by a composer, part memoir and part description of the creative process, \u003ci\u003eHallelujah Junction \u003c\/i\u003eis an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's most admired and frequently performed composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, Adams has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music, such as his Pulitzer prize-winning memorial for the September 11 attack \u003ci\u003eOn The Transmigration of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHallelujah Junction\u003c\/i\u003e isn't so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life and times, centred around the three highly controversial operas based on social and political issues he has written in the past twenty-five years - \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Klinghoffer\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eDr Atomic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536565281142,"sku":"9780571231164","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36343671.jpg?v=1774289217","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571231164-hallelujah-junction","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}