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- John Adams
China Gates (1977)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- pf
- 5 min
- 6th June 2026, MERKIN HALL Kaufman Music Center Abraham Goodman House, New York, United States of America
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China Gates is an almost perfect palindrome which was composed for the seventeen-year-old Sarah Cahill. It oscillates between two modal worlds, only it does so with extreme delicacy. It strikes me now as a piece calling for real attention to detail of dark, light, and the shadows that exist between them.
--John Adams
China Gates is an almost perfect palindrome which was composed for the seventeen-year-old Sarah Cahill. It oscillates between two modal worlds, only it does so with extreme delicacy. It strikes me now as a piece calling for real attention to detail of dark, light, and the shadows that exist between them.
--John Adams
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