![]() “Future music historians, I think, will perceive even more clearly that we can today the extent to which Goodman’s retirement from creative activity was a central, defining catastrophe in Adams’ operatic career.” It is admirable for an artist constantly to be striving to expand her/his expressive reach, but Adams seems to me a frustrating case of a truly great talent repeatedly getting in way over his head and out of his depth the pattern in too many of his “big” pieces has been: 3-4 superb numbers surrounded by stretches of decent writing, plus a fair amount of really hollow music. ![]() “None of it, though, could rescue a work whose central misjudgments were baked in from the start.” and: 2. While I haven’t seen/ heard this new opera, Joshua Kosman’s Chronicle review certainly resonated with my personal experience of much of John Adams’s stage work, post-Nixon in China: 1.
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