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The first recording of John Adams’ 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, is his eighth music theater work to be released by Nonesuch. It tells the story of the California Gold Rush not through familiar time-worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars drew from original sources from the era—letters, journals, newspaper articles, and familiar song lyrics—to create the libretto. The composer leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in this recording made in Disney Hall, with the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Grant Gershon and a cast featuring Davóne Tines, Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, and Ryan McKinny.
Watch This VideoThe forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set featuring recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, is out now on Nonesuch Records.The release includes two extensive booklets containing new essays and notes by Timo Andres (which you can read here), Nico Muhly (read here), Jake Wilder-Smith (read here), Julia Bullock (read here), and Robert Hurwitz (read here). Unboxing video by Robert Edridge-Waks. Music: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 1: Landing of the Sprit of '76.
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Watch This VideoComopser John Adams discusses his 1995 pieces for violin and orchestra, Road Movies.
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