Multiple Choice
John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls was written as:
A) an opera about the first explosion of an atomic bomb.
B) a memorial for the events of September 11, 2001.
C) a song cycle about J. Robert Oppenheimer.
D) an opera about Richard Nixon.
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