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Composer John Luther Adams Grieves and Honors a Changing World Through Music, 2023
John Luther Adams wants people to slow down, to disconnect from the internet and the incessant commentary and the endless analysis and have an “authentic experience” rooted in a specific time and place.
Hence his life’s work as a composer, and his focus, for the last 15 years, on “outdoor music” meant to be performed and experienced in the open air.
“For me, the great power of music is its ability to touch us in ways that that language cannot, and root us in our bodies, in the ground on which we're sitting or standing, and in our awareness of the ground beneath our feet and the world around us,” Adams said in an interview with Aspen Public Radio this week.