Piecing the Broken Golden Bowl: Dislocation and Diplomacy in Nixon in China by John Adams and Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…The purpose of this article is to examine the role of line breaks in the libretto Alice Goodman wrote for Nixon in China (1987), her first collaboration with composer John Adams. In the opera, enjambments function first and foremost as literary devices; as such, they emphasize the text’s autonomy and its independence from its musical setting. …”
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« I Speak According to the Book » : écriture et logos dans Nixon in China de John Adams et Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…In Nixon in China, composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman recount 1970s America’s historic encounter with Maoist China. …”
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« A Single Tone Coming Out Of A Vast, Empty Space » : John Adams, le contemporain au risque de l’anachronisme by Mathieu Duplay

“…While John Adams’s operas often rely on anachronism and temporal distance, his early cantata Harmonium (1980‑81) already raises the question of dissociation and remoteness from the self: first, because it gives pride of place to a famous Emily Dickinson poem about alienation and disaster; secondly, because it also conducts a musical exploration of sound perceived as a paradoxical combination of immediacy and estrangement, presence and emptiness, as if music itself were seen as expressing the quintessence of the contemporary.…”
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Expert consensus guidelines on management and best practices for tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte cell therapy by Sarah Nikiforow, John Haanen, Omid Hamid, Igor Puzanov, Rodabe Amaria, Amod Sarnaik, Marcus O Butler, Michael R Bishop, Allison Betof Warner, Adam J Schoenfeld, Krishna Komanduri

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