The other thing that became part of my narrativestructure, was finding something that had built into it a kind of ambiguity that allowed people to project their interpretation on it.
"The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, recently given its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, approximates thestructure of Bach's Passions but has neither the devotional fervor nor thenarrative energy that make those works unforgettable.