PROGRAMME
Šenk, Nina Flux
Xenakis, Iannis (1922-2001) Terretektorh
Adams, John Luther (b. 1953) Become Ocean
PERFORMERS
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop Conductor
April 6 spotlights pieces from recent releases on the Venice-based postminimalist Cold Blue Music record label, including John Luther Adams’ “Darkness and Scattered Light” for five basses.
Soundwaves was created by librarian/musician Jeff Schwartz and composer Daniel Rothman in 2016 to present cutting-edge music at the Santa Monica Public Library. It has received grants from the Friends of the Santa Monica Public Library and the Amphion Foundation, and programs have included collaborations with the Angel City Jazz Festival, Piano Spheres, Jacaranda Music, Microfest, Cold Blue Music, and the Dog Star Orchestra. A complete list of shows, with many videos, is at soundwavesnewmusic.com.
Over the course of almost 100 events, Soundwaves has demonstrated three ideas: that Los Angeles has been crucial to multiple experimental musical communities, from refugee Modernist composers to free jazz to punk rock and beyond, that very challenging work can be successfully presented to a general audience, and that libraries and other public spaces can partially substitute for grassroots venues and other arts resources lost to gentrification.
All Library programs are free and open to the public. Parking is available underneath the Main Library, several bus lines and the Metro E line stop nearby, and there are bike racks. The MLK Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. Please call (310) 458-8600 to request additional accommodations.
Programm:
Orlando Jacinto García (*1954) - September 2007 (Remembering Morty) (2007) - für Klavier und Schlagzeug (ca. 15 Minuten)
Luigi Nono (1924-1990) - ...sofferte onde serene... (1976) - für Klavier und Tonband (ca. 14 Minuten)
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John Luther Adams (*1953) - Four Thousand Holes (2011) - für Klavier, Schlagzeug und elektronische Aura (ca. 33 Minuten)
Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion
UC San Diego Bass Ensemble Concert
Directed by Mark Dresser
The influential and beloved new music bassist Robert Black (1956-2023)
A Founding Member of Bang On A Can All-Stars
Champion of new solo works composed for the double bass
Works by
John Luther Adams
Robert Carl
J.S. Bach
Giacinto Scelsi
Aphex Twin
UC San Diego Bass Ensemble
Mark Dresser, Matthew Henson, Andrew Crapitto, Angelica Pruitt, Luke Holley
https://music-cms.ucsd.edu/concerts/live.html - livestream
Moore Days and Nature
John Luther Adams There is no one not even the wind
Moore new work
SoundAttribution Ilya Shay
The New European Ensemble will return again, this time with Prof. Dr. Detlef van Vuuren to take a closer look at our ecological footprint. Humanity literally 'consumes' the earth and our impact can be seen in what is left behind. The work of John Luther Adams explores the loneliness in the Mexican desert and Kate Moore investigates and expresses sea level rise.
Two works by Kate Moore will be performed: the penetrating ' Days and Nature' from 2019 and a brand new work. In ' There is no one, not even the wind' by John Adams, music itself has become a world. During all this, Climate Professor Detlef van Vuuren will outline the scientific context in a lecture. The New European Ensemble is sounding the alarm in a beautiful way.
As part of the Conservatory Festival. What do birds convey through their song? The musicians and visual artists from the Haute école des arts du Rhin and the actors from the Conservatoire offer their vision of this theme through the play by John Luther Adams.
Songbirdsongs, composed in 1974 for piccolos and percussion. Project led by Sandrine Poncet, piccolo professor at the Conservatory and at HEAR-Musique as well as Denis Riedinger, Stephan Fougeroux, Olivier Achard, Marie Jo Daloz and Marie Mirgaine.
Strange Birds Passing (1983) – John Luther Adams (b. 1953)
Flute Suite (1987) – Salvador Brotons (1959)
Acclaimed author and music writer Alex Ross joins the virtuosos of 45th Parallel for an evening of words and music, a unique concert experience that will entertain, edify, enlighten, and exhilarate! Alex will read from his books and essays, providing compelling context to the music that 45th Parallel then performs. This is a co-production with the Patricia Reser Center, and will be recorded for broadcast on All Classical Portland.
Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Listen to This, and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. In 2008, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Gyorgy Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, mvmts. 1-3
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
Richard Wagner: Wo in Bergen du dich birgst (from Die Walküre)
Florence Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
Radiohead: Creep / Pyramid (arranged by Sergio Carreno)
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Alex Ross, writer/narrator
Joe Berger, horn
Ron Blessinger, violin
Kayla Cabrera, viola
Sergio Carreno, percussion
Emily Cole, violin
Greg Ewer, violin
Maria Garcia, piano
Stephen Kehner, percussion
Shin-young Kwon, violin
Martha Long, flute
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, cello
Hannah Penn, mezzo soprano
Michael Roberts, percussion
James Shields, clarinet
Steve Vacchi, bassoon
Karen Wagner, oboe
Bora Yoon, vocals
John Luther Adams—Canticles of the Sky
Bright Sheng—Angel Fire Duo
Jennifer Higdon—American Canvas
David Lang—let me come in
The Locrian Chamber Players are a group of performers and composers dedicated to the music of our time. Our concerts are devoted exclusively to works less than a decade old, and programs include both established and emerging composers. We perform contemporary music without pre-concert discussions and voluminous program notes, believing that the best music, when presented directly, speaks for itself. Since the first concert in 1995, the Locrian Chamber Players have presented over thirty world premieres and have given the first New York performances of works by George Crumb, Philip Glass, Morton Subotnick, Joan LaBarbara, James Tenney, Alvin Curran, George Tsontakis, Roger Reynolds, Jo Kondo, along with many others.
Dr. Brad Meyer, associate professor of percussion at Stephen F. Austin State University, will present a faculty recital performing works by Caleb Pickering, Arnor Chu, JacobTV and John Luther Adams at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus. This event features adult language and subject matter that may not be appropriate for some audience members.
Meyer will perform Pickering’s “Tinfoil” and “An Assembly of Outrage.” “Tinfoil” gains its title from the comical depiction of “tinfoil hats” worn by extreme conspiracy theorists. The audio track is inspired by heavy metal music, and the performer uses a modified drum set for the solo part. The audio track contains numerous recordings of conspiratorial beliefs and viewpoints. “An Assembly of Outrage” portrays public outrage with modern-day media and includes audio excerpts of news reports on gun violence and tragedy juxtaposed against clips of over-sensationalized news sources. This work contains audio excerpts of news reports and mass shootings and contains some profanity.
Each piece in Adams’ “The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies” cycle is composed of two elements: a solo part and an "aura" of pre-recorded computer-processed sounds. In performance, these elements are integrated into a unified sounding image.
Composer Jacob ter Veldhuis (JacobTV) explores the “no-man’s-land” between language and music in his piece “Grab It!” for tenor saxophone and boombox. The work is based on voice samples from life-sentenced prisoners.
Chu’s “Until Dawn” is his first composition for five-octave marimba and was the winner of the 2019 Percussive Arts Society International Composition Contest.
Celebrate the natural wonders around us with an exquisite evening of chamber music at the Figge. The concert opens with the airy melodies of Haydn’s “Lark” Quartet, leading into the evocative soundscape of John Luther Adams’ Dream of the Canyon Wren, which pays homage to the beauty of nature. Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse transports the audience to an enchanted island, followed by the innovative and unexpected textures of John Cage’s prepared piano piece And the Earth Shall Bear Again and Angel Lam’s Secrets and Ice Garden. The night culminates with Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet, weaving a narrative that resonates with the serene and joyful spirit of the natural world.
Repertoire
Take a moment for some peaceful reflection on the world around us with the LPO.
For John Luther Adams, music is a lifelong search for home – an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and remember our place within the larger community of life on earth.
Living for almost 40 years in northern Alaska, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams discovered a unique musical world grounded in space, stillness, and elemental forces. In this unique work, Adams captures the tranquillity and turbulence of the natural world and draws on birdsong to bring the sense of wonder that we feel outdoors into the concert hall.
‘These small songs are echoes of rare moments and places where the voices of birds have been clear and I have been quiet enough to hear. Now and then this magic finds me wandering in search of my own voice.’ John Luther Adams
He wraps nature in notes, composes symphonic landscapes, writes the music of the climate problem. American composer John Luther Adams clearly draws his inspiration from nature. From landscapes, snow plains, tundra, deserts and the ocean. 'Ostensibly silence reigns, but if you listen carefully, you hear sound constantly,' Adams himself says of it. Tonight Ralph van Raat, the specialist in newly written piano works, plays the Dutch premiere of Adam's Piano Concerto Prophecies of Stone.
"Ralph van Raat's playing combines powerful projection with a neo-Romantic sensibility, focusing on important details while rarely losing sight of the music's dynamic swell and sweep." -Gramophone
Lawrence Renes conductor
Ralph van Raat piano
One Minute Symphony
J.L. Adams Piano Concerto 'Prophecies of Stone' (Dutch premiere)
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Prophecies of Stone was commissioned by the Residentie Orkest and Factory International.
“Our leading new-music foursome,” is simply and clearly how The New York Times describes the JACK Quartet. Through close collaboration with today’s most exciting and sought-after composers, JACK inspires and infuses new works with tremendous energy and riveting attention.
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: “Rising” from Untouched;
Lines Made by Walking; and The Wind in High Places
The program will be performed without intermission.
Tippet Rise and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation are delighted to participate in a special collaborative concert at Paula Cooper Gallery (534 West 21st St, New York) on Wednesday, October 18 at 6:00 PM EDT, in celebration of Mark di Suvero's exhibition Painting and Sculpture (through October 21).
Our friends the JACK Quartet will perform John Luther Adams’ Lines Made By Walking (String Quartet No. 5), a Tippet Rise commission which premiered at the art center in 2019. In addition, poet Jenny Xie will read several of her works, interwoven among the three movements of the Adams piece.
John Luther Adams, American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2014, reimagines and recreates relationships with other human and non-human beings through music. With a unique sensitivity for capturing the beauty and majesty of landscapes and natural environments, Adams takes us through different sonic and poetic geographies, from the flow of rivers to the movements of the skies. With compositions that sometimes take your breath away and sometimes lull you into a warm and comforting melody, John Luther Adams was highlighted by The New Yorker as “one of the most original musical thinkers of the century”.
Under the invitation of BoCA, soloists from the Orchestra from Algarve perform three of his works for string quartet, in two concerts designed for Faro’s green spaces. The program includes the pieces “The Wind in High Places” (2011), “Canticles of the Sky” (2015) and “Three High Places (in memory of Gordon Wright)” (2007), Adams’ music, always haunted and fascinated by the dialectic between man and nature, echoes and blends with the city’s natural environment.
John Luther Adams, American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner in 2014, reimagines and recreates relationships with other human and non-human beings through music. With a unique sensitivity for capturing the beauty and majesty of landscapes and natural environments, Adams takes us through different sonic and poetic geographies, from the flow of rivers to the movements of the skies. With compositions that sometimes take your breath away and sometimes lull you into a warm and comforting melody, John Luther Adams was highlighted by The New Yorker as “one of the most original musical thinkers of the century”.
Under the invitation of BoCA, soloists from the Orchestra from Algarve perform three of his works for string quartet, in two concerts designed for Faro’s green spaces. The program includes the pieces “The Wind in High Places” (2011), “Canticles of the Sky” (2015) and “Three High Places (in memory of Gordon Wright)” (2007), Adams’ music, always haunted and fascinated by the dialectic between man and nature, echoes and blends with the city’s natural environment.
Elements - The Treske Quartet
Programme:
Plan and Elevation - Caroline Shaw
Wind in High Places - John Luther Adams
Ornitomaquia - Giuseppe Gallo-Balma
Enigma - Anna Thorvaldsdottir
First performed just a few weeks ago at the Aspen Music Festival and School on August 6. This new work, Crossing Open Ground, by John Luther Adams was co-commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment. It will be played in Oberlin by members of the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) and Oberlin Percussion Group (OPG) in Tappan Square. As they play, the musicians will gradually move across the space. CME is under the direction of conductor, Timothy Weiss. Ross Karre is the director of OPG.
The performance is about 75 minutes in length. In inclement weather, the performance will be postponed to Sunday, September 10 at 2:30pm in Tappan Square.