John Adams - Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life (Hardcover)  

John Adams is one of the most admired & performed living composers. A musician of enormous range & technical command, he has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy & sincerity of his music.

Hallelujah Junction isn’t so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the musical landscape of his life & times, centred around the highly controversial operas based on social & political issues he has written in the past 25 years – Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer.