Instead, he's premiering a new opera this year, Girls of the Golden West, that touches on race relations, the silencing of dissent, women's rights, and what we now call "fake news."
Atomic), feminism ( The Gospel According to the Other Mary), the Middle East ( The Death of Klinghoffer), and U.S.-foreign relations ( Nixon in China). But then, not many classical composers are John Adams, whose stature as one of the world's most important and respected modern composers often overshadows the fact that he listened to Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan in his Harvard days, resisted Vietnam, and eventually moved to what he semi-jokingly calls the "liberal bubble" of Berkeley.Ĭelebrating his 70th birthday this month, Adams could easily rest on his laurels - his past works have already addressed nuclear war ( Dr. Classical music isn't the first place one expects to find political and social activism.
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