The double bass is an underrated instrument. It plays far back in the orchestra and rarely appears as a solo instrument. Even Patrick Süskind's famous play "The Double Bass" didn't exactly flatter the bass's image. It's high time for more attention! Not just one, but eight basses are now in the spotlight, demonstrating their tremendous expressive potential and opening up never-before-heard soundscapes. It's as if one were witnessing the Big Bang of music. Experience powerful, [...]
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The progressive string quartet PULSE presents branching
In branching, we devote ourselves entirely to our habitat: experiences of nature, mountains, growth, branching patterns: these themes form the basis of the compositions by John Luther Adams, inti figgis-vizueta, Christian Vásquez and Luis Fernando Amaya. We survey the American continent from north to south: from Alaska, via Mexico and the Andes to Tierra del Fuego. [...]
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JACK Quartet introduces us to the work of John Luther Adams, soundscape composer and ardent environmentalist.
A surveyor of wide-open spaces, from northern Alaska where he lived for much of his life to the American and South American deserts today, the man who was initially an environmental activist in the 1970s and 1980s devoted himself to composition late in life. Almost unknown in France, John Luther Adams is one of the most original composers of his generation. His works, [...]
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Become Ocean: Dalia Stasevska conducts John Luther Adams’s 21st century cult classic.
Listening, we become ocean…engulfed in sound, immersed in nature, transformed by the depth and wonder of elements that might (or might not) be beyond our control. Dalia Stasevska conducts one of the defining masterpieces of our century: John Luther Adams’s huge, haunting Become Ocean.
'It may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history' declared Alex Ross, who [...]
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The award-winning Fitzroy String Quartet makes a welcome return to open our season with an afternoon of captivating chamber music, with moments of intimate expression and vibrant melody.
Bringing together the minimalism of Philip Glass and John Adams and Jessie Montgomery’s American dance like folk idioms, with Dvorak’s homage to the Bohemian musical traditions of his homeland, this promises to be a concert full of lyrical energy.
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Directed by Dimitri Chamblas and Nadia Sirota
With Nathalie Joachim, Sidney Hopson, C.J. Camerieri and Trever Hagen
Produced by Liquid Music Presented by Center for the Arts at Kayenta October 25, 2025 Snow Canyon State Park, Southern Utah
Environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’s Crossing Open Ground, an outdoor work for winds, brass and percussion, offers an opportunity to rediscover and reconsecrate place—an invitation to listen to the older, deeper [...]
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The remarkable Ligeti Quartet traces the shifting contours of memory, nature, and change, through music by Kaija Saariaho, Cassandra Miller, John Luther Adams and many more.
Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria reflects on memory and change, evoking landscapes both personal and physical, while Wadada Leo Smith’s String Quartet No. 5 (In the Diaspora: Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions) conjures the forces of upheaval and renewal. In Warblework, Cassandra Miller [...]
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On Thursday December 4, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Other Minds welcomes Singaporean avant-garde pianist and toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan to present And No Birds Sing, her “personal endeavor to call attention to climate change and the dire consequences of remaining passive in the face of an unfolding universal catastrophe.” Named for the [...]
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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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Explore land, water and air before arriving in the city of [...]
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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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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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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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