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April 2022
Lisbon, Portugal—Veils and Vesper
An experience of sound, space and time, where circulation is free and each route or listening point is unique. Starting from the compositions for electronic sound Vesper, Falling Veil, Crossing Veil and Rising Veil, by John Luther Adams, ZefPinheiro conceives an installation that transforms Lux into a landscape where sounds, light and image mix, contaminate and evolve like an ecosystem. The time of music is the time of nature, slow, inexorable and of cycles that go beyond our momentary understanding…
Find out more »Lisbon, Portugal—Veils and Vesper
An experience of sound, space and time, where circulation is free and each route or listening point is unique. Starting from the compositions for electronic sound Vesper, Falling Veil, Crossing Veil and Rising Veil, by John Luther Adams, ZefPinheiro conceives an installation that transforms Lux into a landscape where sounds, light and image mix, contaminate and evolve like an ecosystem. The time of music is the time of nature, slow, inexorable and of cycles that go beyond our momentary understanding…
Find out more »Cork, Ireland—A Brief Descent Into Deep Time
Cork International Choral Festival Programme Steve Martland (UK, 1954-2013)—Sea Songs John Frandsen (Denmark, b. 1956)—weather4casts: 4 seasons in 4 movements John Luther Adams (USA, b. 1953)—A Brief Descent into Deep Time Daragh Black Hynes—Behind this Light Winning entry of the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition 2021 Performers Chamber Choir Ireland Paul Hillier—Artistic Director In the second of our two-programme retrospective on the late composer Steve Martland, we see him placed in the context of his contemporaries, John Frandsen and John…
Find out more »Brooklyn, NY—Strange and Sacred Noise
John Luther Adams’ radical vision is to use music to describe how we live in the world, in particular how nature changes us, and how we change it, combining a rugged sense of the elemental with a real concern for the health of the earth. At LONG PLAY, his monumental cycle is performed by Left Edge Percussion and the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble. Part of Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival 2022 “Right now – this minute –…
Find out more »Sioux Falls, SD—An Atlas of Deep Time (World Premiere)
SDSO Centennial Finale EVENT OVERVIEW: Strauss / Also Sprach Zarathustra John Luther Adams / An Atlas of Deep Time (World Premiere) Delta David Gier, conductor The final concert of this Centennial Season opens with Richard Strauss’ epic tone poem “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, the opening bars of which are immortalized in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” An Atlas of Deep Time is a World Premiere written especially for the occasion by Pulitzer and Grammy-award winning composer John Luther Adams. The…
Find out more »Dublin, Ireland—A Brief Descent into Deep Time
A Brief Descent into Deep Time @ New Music Dublin 2022 Chamber Choir Ireland Paul Hillier, conductor Steve Martland Sea Songs John Frandsen weather4casts: 4 seasons in 4 movements John Luther Adams A Brief Descent into Deep Time In the second of their two-part retrospective on Steve Martland, Chamber Choir Ireland places the late composer in the context of his contemporaries, John Frandsen and John Luther Adams—both born within a few years of him. Martland’s Sea Songs is a kind…
Find out more »May 2022
Melbourne, Australia—Qilyaun
New Music Studio presents a 50 min performance of a variety of short pieces, in near total darkness, with performers interspersed throughout the audience. Works performed include John Luther Adams’ Qilyaun and a new work by Carolyn Schofield. This work is presented as part of a double feature with New Music Studio - Electromagnetic Room at 9:00PM in Kenneth Myer Auditorium. We encourage you to attend both concerts. ARTISTS Cameron Deyell - curator Mike Callander - electronics Carolyn Schofield -…
Find out more »Hamburg, Germany—Inuksuit
International Music Festival Hamburg Venue TBA Organizer: HamburgMusik The concert will be performed outdoors. Details will be announced.
Find out more »Mexico City, Mexico—Become River
John Luther Adams Become River Arts and Science Festival * Albert Roussel Symphony no. 1, Le poème de la forêt Sylvain Gasançon, guest director
Find out more »Mexico City, Mexico—Become River
John Luther Adams Become River Arts and Science Festival * Albert Roussel Symphony no. 1, Le poème de la forêt Sylvain Gasançon, guest director
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