John Luther Adams

Nov 20 2024
19:30

Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
Philadelphia, USA

Cost: $30

ABOUT THIS EVENT

About This Performance

Following her thrilling 2023 recital debut with pianist Julius Drake, Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron returns to PCMS with the “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) Parker Quartet. Their collaboration includes the premiere of a new song cycle for string quartet and voice by Anthony Cheung (co-commissioned by PCMS), as well as arrangements of Brahms’s and Mahler’s songs, and John Luther Adams’s stunningly serene The Wind in High Places.

Brahms: Im Herbst from Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104 (Arr. Parker Quartet)
J. L. Adams: The Wind in High Places
Cheung: The Field Remembers Philadelphia Premiere/PCMS Co-Commission
Mahler: Der Einsame im Herbst from Das Lied von der Erde (Arr. Cheung)
Brahms: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67

Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes (including intermission)

THE VENUE

Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, 19102
USA

Phone: 215.893.1999
Website: https://www.ensembleartsphilly.org/plan-your-visit/our-venues/kimmel-center

His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann

john luther adams

Home About JLA recordings works writings interviews Notes calendar contact

From time to time JLA will share musings on work in progress, new recordings and publications, and forthcoming performances. If you'd like to know when a new post appears, enter your email address here: