Documents that were top secret and never meant to be seen are now set to music.
"Peter Sellars" is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
File:PeterSellarsOjai.jpg/thumb/200px/Peter Sellars at the Ojai Festival, California, 2011
More Peter Sellars on Wikipedia.John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records.
And the other great thing that we're allowed to do — and you're not — is use metaphor.
How old were you that night?
I was 22 years old. But I'm still here. And one reason I'm still here is that I've got lots of ionizing radiation. That's what's good for you, for your immune system. There have been a lot of studies that show that a low level of it is good for you. The problem is they don't know what the level should be.
[The chorus contains a statement of the principles behind the bomb, why it's practical and what it can accomplish.] It doesn't exactly say how to build a nuclear weapon, ... but it is a précis of the science involved.
These are not just made-up stories. These were real human beings with real choices ? and some folly, ... And this was the single biggest weapons project in the history of humanity.
The only thing that I will do that will annoy some people is I am taking poetic license a little bit with time and space onstage.
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