The show is promoted with this line: "Sex, drugs, and classical music illustrate what happens behind the curtains at the symphony can be just as captivating as what occurs on stage." No joke, although it's classified as a comedy.
John Adams, this week’s birthday boy, belies the usual stereotypes about composers. Vigorous, worldly, engaged, conversant with a wide swath of culture and cultural activities, he is no ivory-tower intellectual.
