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Radio 3,26 Apr 2013,20 mins

John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony

Discovering Music

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John Adams' opera Doctor Atomic has come to be regarded as one of the most original and engaging works of musical theatre of the last decade - its subject the lives of J. Robert Oppenheimer and others involved in the Manhattan Project of the 1950s. Stephen Johnson explores the symphony Adams created from his opera.

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