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Hallelujah junction

composing an American life

By Adams, John D.

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"Hallelujah Junction is a journey across the musical landscape of America and through the life and times of John Adams, one of today's most admired and performed composers." "Adams traces his musical lineage back to the era of swing bands and to his grandfather's New Hampshire dance hall, where his clarinetist father met his jazz singer mother. He evokes in detail his own musical childhood in New England, with its marching bands and small-town orchestras, and describes his start as a serious composer in college, his cross-country journey to California, and his gradual rise as one of the most important figures in American music."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN
978-0-37428-115-1
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on September 15, 2008

Celebrated American composer and conductor Adams's memoir chronicles his life from his upbringing as a talented clarinetist in rural New England to his countercultural coming-of-age as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1960s to his embrace of the musical life and vibrant scene of the Bay Area. Adams writes candidly of his compositions and those of his contemporaries in language accessible to the lay reader. Adams-t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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