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Red Arc/Blue Veil: Wicked GOAT | Technicolor Goat
Dec 14 2025
16:00
Barrett Hall, Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena, CA, USA
Cost: Free

Wicked GOAT Season 4 is all about color, creativity, and musical exploration.

Join our first concert as we dive into how composers translate color into sound. There will be vibrant works by Jennifer Higdon, Andy Akiho, and a world premiere by the brilliant Brendan Faegre, among other highlights. If you’ve ever wondered what the color yellow might sound like, or how color can shape music, this is your show.

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Sky with the Four Suns: Manchester Collective
Feb 08 2026
19:00
The Hall, Aviva Studios
Manchester, UK
Cost: £25

Enter a realm flooded with light and sound with music by Arvo Pärt, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell, Mica Levi, Jasmine Morris and John Luther Adams

The Alaskan wilderness and the Arctic sky is where night and day steadily unfold with a special kind of magic. These horizons stretch far and wide across the nature-infused music of John Luther Adams. His ‘Canticles of the Sky’ for string quartet is stark, bright and expansive. It takes inspiration [...]

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Become Ocean: Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra
Feb 18 2026
20:00
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow, Russia

Yaroslav Timofeev, leading, author of the series

Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra

Fyodor Lednev, conductor

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Become River: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mar 21 2026
18:30
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
London, UK
Cost: £7.5-45

The music

John Luther Adams Become River (16’)
Clarice Assad Terra: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (European premiere) (22’) Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Desyatnikov) (with live dance) (26’)

The performers

  • Pablo Rus Broseta conductor
  • Jonathan Davies bassoon*
  • Alice Ivy-Pemberton violin

Explore land, water and air before arriving in the city of [...]

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JLA: JACK Quartet @ Big Ears
Mar 29 2026
00:00
TBD
Knoxville, TN, USA

Across the last 20 years, the JACK Quartet has emerged as one of the country’s most enterprising string quartets, heirs apparent to the spirit and success of peers like the Kronos. After meeting at the Eastman School of Music, the group immediately cultivated accessibility and flexibility, as comfortable with grand concert halls as intimate bars. In the decades since, they have recorded the new works of John Zorn, Cenk Ergün, and Brian Baumbusch, plus pieces by the likes of Steve [...]

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Crossing Open Ground: LA Phil, Liquid Music, USC Thornton School of Music
Apr 18 2026
18:00
Elysian Park
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cost: $20

In partnership with the USC Thornton School of Music and co-producer Liquid Music, the LA Phil presents environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground, an outdoor work for winds, brass, and percussion as part of their Insight initiative. Led by conductor Christopher Rountree and director Dimitri Chamblas and featuring musicians from the acclaimed USC Thornton School of Music, the piece offers an opportunity to rediscover and reconsecrate our sense of [...]

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Works for Piano: Ralph van Raat and Emanuele Arciuli
Apr 19 2026
14:15
Muziekgebouw
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cost: € 35,00

Program

John Luther Adams Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) (piano solo)
John Luther Adams Among Red Mountains (piano solo)
John Luther Adams Cold Mountain (for Ralph van Raat) (piano solo)
John Luther Adams Tukiliit (The Stone People Who Live in the Wind) (for Emanuele Arciuli) (piano solo)
John Luther Adams Four Thousand Holes (new version for [...]

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Crossing Open Ground: LA Phil, Liquid Music, USC Thornton School of Music
Apr 19 2026
18:00
Elysian Park
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cost: $20

In partnership with the USC Thornton School of Music and co-producer Liquid Music, the LA Phil presents environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground, an outdoor work for winds, brass, and percussion as part of their Insight initiative. Led by conductor Christopher Rountree and director Dimitri Chamblas and featuring musicians from the acclaimed USC Thornton School of Music, the piece offers an opportunity to rediscover and reconsecrate our sense of [...]

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An Atlas of Deep Time: Louisville Orchestra
Apr 24 2026
11:00
Whitney Hall at The Kentucky Center
Louisville, KY, USA

Teddy Abrams, conductor

Anthony Green, World Premiere (Louisville Orchestra Creators Corp)
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
John Luther Adams, An Atlas of Deep Time

A century after its debut, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue still crackles with energy—its opening clarinet glissando an unmistakable call to the thrill of jazz-age America. Teddy Abrams leads the Louisville Orchestra in this timeless fusion of classical and [...]

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An Atlas of Deep Time: Louisville Orchestra
Apr 25 2026
19:30
Whitney Hall at The Kentucky Center
Louisville, KY, USA

Teddy Abrams, conductor

Anthony Green, World Premiere (Louisville Orchestra Creators Corp)
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
John Luther Adams, An Atlas of Deep Time

A century after its debut, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue still crackles with energy—its opening clarinet glissando an unmistakable call to the thrill of jazz-age America. Teddy Abrams leads the Louisville Orchestra in this timeless fusion of classical and [...]

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Become Ocean: Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
May 02 2026
19:30
Jack Singer Concert Hall
Calgary, Canada
Cost: $32-94

Take the plunge into huge orchestral sound as the Calgary Phil and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra come together to perform John Luther Adams' Become Ocean, a haunting work that evokes an unstoppable tidal surge. They also join forces to play Holst's enthralling orchestral mood pictures inspired by the astrological significance of the planets and how they may [...]

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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
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