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14 Dec 2022 Conversations with Tyler John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom
“I have my own impression of him, and I don’t know if I’m going to go to a Hollywood movie and see somebody else’s imitation of Oppenheimer.”
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- 14 Dec 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Now, as composer of Doctor Atomic, are you looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer? Or you don’t care? I might watch it, but Oppenheimer has become an obsession with me. I’ve read the two wonderful biographies of him that have come out in the last 10 or 15 years. I’ve read them both numerous times. Oppenheimer actually lived and taught in this city where I live — Berkeley, California. In many ways, he was a very special and mysterious human being. A great, great, brilliant scientist, but also somebody who appreciated poetry and art and music. I have my own impression of him, and I don’t know if I’m going to go to a Hollywood movie and see somebody else’s imitation of Oppenheimer. I might, but I doubt it. Are you much influenced by cinema when you think operatically? Or not really?…
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