Schwartzo, on Ades:

>Summary for the Busy Executive: Boredom on a stupefying scale.

That really does sum up my feelings.  I find his music glib and
meretricious.  It is simply beyond me why he is being lionized (and
commissioned, apparently) as he is.  His 'Powder Her Face' was possibly
my most dreadful experience in the theater.

Scott Morrison