John Luther Adams

An Atlas of Deep Time
2024

Waves and Particles
2024

Darkness and Scattered Light
2023

interviews

A Glutton for Sound
Van Magazine, 2022

An interview with composer John Luther Adams by Conrad Winslow.

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Composer John Luther Adams Grieves and Honors a Changing World Through Music
Aspen Public Radio, 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.

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Brett Campbell | Oregon Arts Watch

John Luther Adams: Become Nature

Chamber Music Northwest and the Oregon Bach Festival present the world premiere of a new work for percussion ensemble by one of the most lauded living American composers.

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His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann

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