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October 2019
New York, NY—Lines Made by Walking (New York Premiere)
There will be a wine and cheese pre-concert reception at 7:00 (included in ticket price) before descending into the crypt. *PLEASE NOTE THE CRYPT IS NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE* Program John Luther Adams: Lines Made by Walking (New York Premiere) Up the Mountain Along the Ridges Down the Mountain *2019 Tippet Rise Commission for String Quartet* Christopher Otto, violin Austin Wulliman, violin John Pickford Richards, viola Jay Campbell, cello The Long Version If The New York Times calls you “the nation’s…
Find out more »London, UK—The Far Country of Sleep
FLUX - #CONCERTLAB GÉRARD GRISEY Stele PIERRE JALBERT Les espaces infinis JEAN SIBELIUS Valse Triste PĒTERIS VASKS Musica Dolorosa JOHN LUTHER ADAMS The Far Country of Sleep Imogen Knight Movement Director Maxime Tortelier Conductor
Find out more »November 2019
Dortmund, Germany—Purgatorio
Ballet by Xin Peng Wang after Dante Alighieri Music by John Luther Adams and Kate Moore A man, confused by the circumstances of his time and embittered by his life, gets lost in a seemingly hopeless forest. He believes he has come to an end when a mysterious stranger invites him on a fantastic journey. It leads into the fiery chasms of hell and over the steep heights of the Purification Mountain finally into paradise. Xin Peng Wang's dance-like Sphere…
Find out more »London, UK—Canticles of the Sky
DEEP MINIMALISM 2.0 Sunday: The second day of a weekend dedicated to meditative listening and deep concentration.
Find out more »Vancouver, Canada—Ilimaq
featuring: Ben Reimer, drums Doors opens at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 7:30PM General Admission seating. All ages welcome. Wrap up your 2019 Modulus Festival experience with “liquid cascades of percussion”, care of John Luther Adams’ epic Ilimaq. Featuring percussionist Ben Reimer, Ilimaq – which means “spirit journey” in the Inupiaq language – explores spirituality through a diverse range of sounds, rhythm, and melodies. This solo percussion piece is as volatile as it is meditative, compelling listeners to get swept…
Find out more »Dortmund, Germany—Purgatorio
Ballet by Xin Peng Wang after Dante Alighieri Music by John Luther Adams and Kate Moore A man, confused by the circumstances of his time and embittered by his life, gets lost in a seemingly hopeless forest. He believes he has come to an end when a mysterious stranger invites him on a fantastic journey. It leads into the fiery chasms of hell and over the steep heights of the Purification Mountain finally into paradise. Xin Peng Wang's dance-like Sphere…
Find out more »Dortmund, Germany—Purgatorio
Ballet by Xin Peng Wang after Dante Alighieri Music by John Luther Adams and Kate Moore A man, confused by the circumstances of his time and embittered by his life, gets lost in a seemingly hopeless forest. He believes he has come to an end when a mysterious stranger invites him on a fantastic journey. It leads into the fiery chasms of hell and over the steep heights of the Purification Mountain finally into paradise. Xin Peng Wang's dance-like Sphere…
Find out more »Wellington, New Zealand—Become River (New Zealand premiere)
The finale of the 2019 Shed Series presents a programme of light, relaxing music to entertain as we head towards the end of the year.
Find out more »December 2019
Bergen, Norway—Become Ocean
Ludovic Morlot comes to Bergen to give the Nordic premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work his orchestra in Seattle commissioned: John Luther Adams’s orchestral monolith Become Ocean. This huge orchestral depiction of the deep, dark oceans around the Pacific Northwest mines into a single musical texture for almost 45 minutes, evolving slowly through a series of huge musical waves. But this unforgettable seascape, that seems to emerge from the centre of the earth, is also a call-to-action, as humanity faces…
Find out more »Dortmund, Germany—Purgatorio
Ballet by Xin Peng Wang after Dante Alighieri Music by John Luther Adams and Kate Moore A man, confused by the circumstances of his time and embittered by his life, gets lost in a seemingly hopeless forest. He believes he has come to an end when a mysterious stranger invites him on a fantastic journey. It leads into the fiery chasms of hell and over the steep heights of the Purification Mountain finally into paradise. Xin Peng Wang's dance-like Sphere…
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