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August 13, 2005
Doctor Atomic (2005). John Adams /getting ready/
- "Director Peter Sellars has an unusual new creation -- turning the world's first atomic bomb project into music." Associated Press
- "The opera, which is set in 1945 in the final hours leading up to the first atomic explosion, is indeed a community effort for the Bay Area, connecting the Berkeley-based composer not only with Oppenheimer, a former professor of the University of California (Berkeley), but also with local events observing the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, a conference of the American Physical Society celebrating 2005 as the World Year of Physics, a seminar on Oppenheimer at the Stanford University Institute for International Studies, and a Bay Area film festival of 'post-atomic' films and 'mad scientist' movies dating back to the 1920s." Gramaphone
- "There's more than a little irony in the...
Originally posted by Robert Gable from aworks :: "new" american classical music, ReBlogged by jeff on Aug 13, 2005 at 01:25 PM
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