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Apart from playing trombone in the school band and the usual radio pap, I discovered music in a serious way at a relatively late age – when I was around 12. That was around the time I went crazy over an abandoned piano and thought I could learn to play all the Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas in a year or so “if I applied myself.” At least I didn’t lack for foolhardy ideas about how music actually works. A year or so later I began my first attempt to compose a symphony — to “prepare the way” for the opera on "King Lear" for which posterity had destined me — when I discovered with horror that my main theme in E major had been stolen by Anton Bruckner. But I’ve been trying to make up for lost time ever since, and music is a passion inseparably ...more

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New from John Adams

I’d meant to post a link to my program note for John Adams’s brand-new orchestral piece, The Rock You Stand On, written for Marin Alsop, who recently led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the world premiere:

Listening to John Adams often feels like stepping into a drama already in motion …

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Average rating: 3.78 · 64 ratings · 9 reviews · 127 distinct works

	Decoding Wagner: A Basic Guide into His World of Music Drama 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The tragedy of Antigone, the Theban princesse. Written by T.M. (1631) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das große GodmodeTrader-Handbuch: Die besten Strategien der Toptrader by Thomas May (editor), Jochen Stanzl (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two tragedies viz. Cleopatra, Queene of AEgypt, and Agrippina, Empress of Rome / written by Thomas May. (1654) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy Books 1982-86 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friends Under Construction: Leader's Guide 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Asa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Organisationskultur: Zur Rekonstruktion und Evaluation heterogener Ansätze in der Organisationstheorie (Studien zur Sozialwissenschaft 189) (German Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The History Book ...: MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC - 1001 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE	344	528	Jan 25, 2019 06:30PM
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