![]() ![]() This onetime enfant terrible has grown into an elder statesman. Adams can fairly stake a claim as America’s most prominent composer. Three decades after the premiere of “Nixon in China,” Mr. Adams said, recalling news footage of Trump supporters chanting for Hillary Clinton’s imprisonment being shown as he wrote choruses for his opera’s angry mob. “I kept hearing ‘Lock her up!’ at those horrible rallies,” Mr. It was particularly jarring, he said, to write the opera’s climax - in which a Mexican woman is lynched - against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential race. “And when it became not so easy to find gold, they all started sounding like Donald Trump.” “They all came here looking for gold,” he said at one point during a drive through the Sierras along State Route 49, which links many of the old mining sites of the 49ers.
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