(Mark Swed's article appeared in the L.A.Times, March 7.)
'Nixon in China' is neglected no longer
When I was in college, I hated Richard Nixon. Everyone I knew (except perhaps my father) hated Richard Nixon. My perspective was as a politically engaged undergraduate at UC Berkeley during the war in Vietnam — holding a low draft number.
I gradually stopped hating Nixon. But it wasn't until Oct. 22, 1987, in the company of bejeweled and Stetson-topped Texans, that I began to understand why. Houston Grand Opera had commissioned John Adams' "Nixon in China" to celebrate the opening of a new opera house.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-nixon-china7-2010mar07,0,2232967.story
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