Just a few moments ago, while making lunch, I accidentally got shot in my left eye with Sriracha chili sauce, also affectionately known as “Rooster Sauce” (observe the rooster logo on the bottle). If you’ve never tried it, it’s numbingly spicy, and highly addictive. Once you get hooked, you can’t help but slather it on almost anything you eat (except for New England clam chowder – I prefer Tabasco). Today,
John Adams’ exuberant new album of orchestral works – conducted by him and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra – name-checks the ghosts of two famous Americans, novelist Jack Kerouac and composer Charles Ives, while summoning the spirit of many others, dead and alive. The Dharma at Big Sur, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the opening of the Frank Gehry-designed Disney Hall, was partly inspired by Kerouac’s book Big Sur (1962), which recounts the writer’s journey along the Pacific coast to live in a cabin at Big Sur.
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