The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2012). John Adams /chromaticism/

Brian Lauritzen:

Most striking, perhaps, was the chromaticism of the score. Adams’ music has always had a clear, crystalline quality of sound, consistently intricate and pristine. We’ve gotten hints of where Adams is headed, tonally, in recent years–dirtying things up a bit with Doctor Atomic and City Noir. But The Other Mary is much more extreme. Adams manages to maintain his hallmark intricacy, but the tonality is fractured and only shards of that recognizable “Adams sound” remain.