john luther adams
/ works
works
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Year
    
Title
Vocal & choral
A Brief Descent into Deep Time
2022
Orchestra
An Atlas of Deep Time
2022
Electronic
Houses of the Wind
2021
Solo & small ensemble
Waves and Particles
2021
Solo & small ensemble
Noctilucent
2020
Solo & small ensemble
Lines Made by Walking
2019
Vocal & choral
In the Name of the Earth
2017
Electronic
The Wind Garden
2017
Solo & small ensemble
there is no one, not even the wind
2017
Solo & small ensemble
Everything That Rises
2017
Orchestra
Become Desert
2017
Electronic
Soundwalk 9:09
2016
Solo & small ensemble
Across the Distance
2015
Solo & small ensemble
untouched
2015
Solo & small ensemble
Canticles of the Sky
2015
Solo & small ensemble
Canticles of the Sky
2015
Orchestra
Ten Thousand Birds
2014
Orchestra
Become Ocean
2013
Vocal & choral
Canticles of the Holy Wind
2013
Vocal & choral
Canticles of the Sky
2013
Solo & small ensemble
Dream of the Canyon Wren
2013
Solo & small ensemble
Three Canticles of the Birds
2013
Orchestra
Sila: The Breath of the World
2013
Percussion
Ilimaq
2012
Solo & small ensemble
Tukiliit (The Stone People Who Live in the Wind)
2012
Solo & small ensemble
The Wind in High Places
2011
Orchestra
Become River
2010
Orchestra
The Light Within (orchestra version)
2010
Solo & small ensemble
Four Thousand Holes
2010
Percussion
Inuksuit
2009
Electronic
the place we began
2008
Electronic
Veils and Vesper
2008
Solo & small ensemble
Three High Places (in memory of Gordon Wright)
2007/2017
Solo & small ensemble
The Light Within
2007
Vocal & choral
Little Cosmic Dust Poem
2007
Solo & small ensemble
Dark Waves
2007
Solo & small ensemble
Three High Places (in memory of Gordon Wright)
2007
Solo & small ensemble
Nunataks (Solitary Peaks)
2007
Orchestra
Dark Waves
2007
Percussion
Always Very Soft
2007
Solo & small ensemble
for Jim (rising)
2006
Electronic
The Place Where You Go to Listen
2006
Percussion
…and bells remembered…
2005
Vocal & choral
Poem of the Forgotten
2004
Orchestra
For Lou Harrison
2003
Solo & small ensemble
Red Arc / Blue Veil
2002
Percussion
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
2002
Solo & small ensemble
The Light That Fills the World (Chamber Version)
2001, revised
Solo & small ensemble
Dark Wind
2001
Solo & small ensemble
In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
2001
Solo & small ensemble
Among Red Mountains
2001
Solo & small ensemble
The Farthest Place
2001
Orchestra
The Light That Fills the World
2000
Solo & small ensemble
The Immeasurable Space of Tones
1998-2001
Percussion
Qilyaun
1998
Orchestra
In the White Silence
1998
Solo & small ensemble
Make Prayers to the Raven
1996/98
Percussion
Sauyatugvik: The Time of Drumming
1996
Orchestra
Sauyatugvik: The Time of Drumming
1995
Percussion
Three Drum Quartets from Earth and the Great Weather
1993
Theater
Crow and Weasel (story by Barry Lopez)
1993
Solo & small ensemble
Five Athabascan Dances
1992/96
Orchestra
Dream In White On White
1992
Percussion
Strange and Sacred Noise
1991-97
Solo & small ensemble
Five Yup’ik Dances
1991-94
Orchestra
Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing
1991-1995
Theater
Earth and the Great Weather
1990-93
Vocal & choral
magic song for one who wishes to live and the dead who climb up to the sky
1990
Orchestra
The Far Country of Sleep
1988
Theater
Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter, Coyote Builds North America
1986-90
Vocal & choral
Selections from Forest Without Leaves
1984
Solo & small ensemble
Strange Birds Passing
1983
Orchestra
A Northern Suite
1979-80 / 2004
Vocal & choral
up into the silence
1978/84
Vocal & choral
Night Peace
1976
Solo & small ensemble
songbirdsongs
1974-80
Percussion
Green Corn Dance
1974
John Luther Adams inspires us not only to listen more attentively, but to be more aware of the world in which we live. This … book … should not only be on the shelves of everyone interested in the music of our time but also anyone interested in being alive. -
Frank J. Oteri
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