John Adams's earthquake musical gets a welcome shaking down | Tom Service

A jazzed-up new production of I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky may be about to redeem the original scoreOne of John Adams's most problematic pieces has a chance of redemption at the Theatre Royal Stratford East tonight: his earthquake musical, the pop-pastiche, hybrid-opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. It's a piece that I found pretty ghastly when I first heard the CD. Listening to Adams's recording of the work, the music of Ceiling/Sky seems to fall be...

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