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Inuksuit: Blow Up Percussion
Jun 19 2025
21:00
Giardini Della Filarmonica
Rome, Italy

Blow Up Percussion
Students of the

percussion instruments class of the "O.Respighi" Conservatory of Latina of the Maestro Rodolfo Rossi

John Luther Adams
Inuksuit

In the Gardens of the Roman Philharmonic echoes Inuksuit, an open-air “sound monument” by John Luther Adams, an American composer who makes the dialogue between nature and music [...]

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Ten Thousand Birds: Alarm Will Sound
Jun 21 2025
18:00
City Museum
St. Louis, MO, USA

Immerse yourself in Ten Thousand Birds, John Luther Adams’s captivating work inspired by the songs of birds native to the American northeast and midwest. Performed by Alarm Will Sound and directed by Alan Pierson, this 70-minute piece transforms the natural calls of birds into an unforgettable musical journey.

Saturday, June 21 at 6pm in Architecture [...]

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“Five Athabascan Dances” and “Five Yup’ik Dances”: Mark Morris Dance Group
Jul 22 2025
19:30
The Joyce Theater
New York, NY, USA
Cost: $62-82

Through July 26.

This summer, Mark Morris Dance Group launches its milestone 45th anniversary season and presents a stunning program that showcases the breadth and versatility of Mark Morris’s choreography. With live music and Mark Morris’s signature blend of wit, musicality, and emotional depth, this much-anticipated engagement features two programs that celebrate both new works and beloved repertory.

In Program A, [...]

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Become Ocean: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oct 08 2025
19:30
Barbican Hall
London, UK
Cost: from £15

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 [...]

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Canticles of the Sky: Fitzroy String Quartet
Oct 12 2025
15:00
Holy Trinity Church
Ripon, UK
Cost: £20

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.

Philip Glass: [...]

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Crossing Open Ground: Liquid Music
Oct 25 2025
14:00
Snow Canyon State Park
Ivins, UT, USA

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 Wind in High Places: Ligeti Quartet
Nov 27 2025
19:30
Milton Court Concert Hall
London, UK
Cost: from £15

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: [...]

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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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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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Adams's swelling orchestral work may be the loveliest apocalypse in musical history. - Alex Ross, New Yorker
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