Composer John Adams in Conversation with Historian Kevin Starr
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
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Contemporary classical composer John Adams joins California historian Kenneth Starr for a conversation about music at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Adams is best known for groundbreaking works like Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, which blend opera, classical, and experimental and pop music to illuminate recent political events.
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Best known for his groundbreaking musical works Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams has helped shape the landscape of contemporary classical music. Combining the narrative power of opera, the atonal themes of 20th-century classical music, the spooky modulations of jazz and the complex rhythms of the Beatles and the Band, he created a new music that could express the fractiousness of the political scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Get an inside look at the workings of a brilliant musical mind.
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