SFist points out iTunes is now selling the LA Philharmonic recording of Adams' City Noir, gives the work mixed reviews, and suggests that Adams may be guilty of Norcal treason by writing the LA-inspired piece ("What's next for John Adams, the creative chair for the LA Phil, an anthem for the Dodgers?")
Joshua Kosman on the piece, just played in San Francisco:
And Adams' fierce, densely wrought evocation of Los Angeles' true-crime history, as experienced through the film noir tradition, got a boisterous, rhythmically precise reading.
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