THE CHRIST CHILD, WITH LATINO PERSPECTIVES
STANFORD, CA—A touring concert version of John Adams’ Christmas oratorio showed both strengths and weaknesses as presented here by AMOC, alias the Julia-Christian show. The touring version, “El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered” had to be streamlined, deleting the original film supplement to “El Niño,” along with some of its impact portraying the plight of today’s migrating Latinos as seen through the lens of the Bible. It is a close-to-the-vest neoclassical piece crying out loudly for a choral component. Adams’ closest “relative”…