CHOOSE YOUR OWN (SONIC) ADVENTURE. AGAIN.
Following the acclaimed ‘performance installation’ at Te Papa in 2023, Stroma return to play multiple, simultaneous performances of ambient, spatial music in the gorgeous gallery spaces of City Gallery Wellington. The centrepiece is a new work by Riki Gooch, Poutama, a work in four parts for improvising taonga puoro ensemble blending with the sounds of Stroma’s musicians.
Described by Alex Ross in The New Yorker as ‘one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century’, John Luther Adams turned 70 last year; his work based on natural phenomena dates from 2015. On a similar theme, the Gubaidulina piece, dating from 2002, is scored for eight cellos.
[...]Whistling Kite New Music return to Audit House for another stunning dry season concert of new chamber music inspired by the natural world.
This performance will feature the premiere of a brand new work by Nick Yates and Netanela Mizrahi, the sparkling harmonics of John Luther Adams' string quartet 'The Wind in High Places', the gritty textures of Colin Bright's 'Many heads - Katatjuta' for solo double bass, and Jabra Latham's 'A Short Walk in the Cold' for solo clarinet.
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JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b. 1953) Prophecies of Fire (31’)
CMNW Co-Commission • World Premiere
Be among the first to experience Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams’s final major work for chamber ensemble! Prophecies of Fire, co-commissioned by CMNW, will be premiered by the mesmerizing Sandbox Percussion, remembered for their stunning CMNW performances of George Crumb’s American Songbook II and Andy [...]
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Called “pure as magic” by The New York Times and “jaw-dropping” by The Washington Post, the young, energetic percussion ensemble brings down the house as OBF participates in the world-premiere weekend of John Luther Adams’ Prophecies of Fire.
Oregon Bach Festival season packages and Friends of the Festival presale begin March 19. Single tickets go on sale May 1. Full list of artists and repertoire will [...]
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It’s the return of movie night! Earth becomes music in the form of two visionary piano works of John Luther Adams book-ending an all-improvised score for the beloved classic Nanook of the North.
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Luther Adams, Among Red Mountains, for solo piano
Improvisation with Nanook of the North
Luther Adams, Nunataks, for solo piano
Kaleidoscopes of refracted colour burst from the page, in this prismatic concert of luminous music. A world premiere by NZ/Canadian composer Nicholas Denton Protsack sits alongside meditative music by his compatriots R Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams, renowned for capturing the shifting colours of their wild northern landscapes. Other works in the light-themed programme are by NZ composer Leila Adu-Gilmore, Daniela Terranova (Italy) and Bree Van Ryk (Australia), rounded out by the [...]
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Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici will be captain of this voyage to some of the wildest natural places. John Luther Adams’ visceral work Become Ocean does more than evoke the pull of the tides. It invites you to become one with the sea itself – to remember life’s humble beginnings on our water-based planet and ponder a future in which we return to its depths. Equally as evocative is Nigel Westlake’s Spirit of the Wild, brought to life by [...]
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Embodying “undivided devotion to the musical material,” the Grammy Award–winning vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices is a go-to collaborator for many of today’s most visionary composers. In Zankel Hall alone, they have premiered new works by such artists as Arvo Pärt, David Lang, and Ingram Marshall. In this performance—in the intimate, in-the-round Zankel Hall Center Stage configuration—they sing a world premiere by the [...]
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