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Braid yourself a flower crown, dance barefoot, or crack open a cold one—we’re approaching the summer solstice on June 21, marking the official first day of summer and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In DC, we’re set to get nearly 15 hours of glorious daylight, during which the sun will
Rebecca Franks describes how the American composer John Luther Adams found his distinct musical style by abandoning all for the wilderness of Alaska
Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched.
Classical Notes: The frozen aesthetic of John Luther Adams FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 3of5 5of5 The deep of winter felt like an appropriate time for an immersion into the work of John Luther Adams, a 68-year-old composer whose aesthetic is tuned into the natural world, in particular the frozen landscapes of Alaska, where he lived for more than 30 years. Adams won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral piece “Become Ocean,” which has just been released as part of a 3-CD set on the Cantaloupe label. This coincides with the publication of his memoir, “Silences So Deep: Music, Solitu...