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April 2020
New York, NY—Become River
American Composers Orchestra The Natural Order The complicated relationship between humankind and the natural world is depicted in three innovative works. Nina C. Young’s Out of whose womb came the ice depicts Ernest Shackleton’s daring expedition to Antarctica in music and video, while Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Luther Adams’s Become River is one chapter of his ongoing series of pieces that explore desert, mountain, tundra, and other landscapes and waterscapes. Mark Adamo’s cello concerto is an apocalyptic Four Seasons with…
Find out more »San Francisco, CA—Become Ocean
PROGRAM Richard Wagner Siegfried's Funeral Music from Götterdämmerung Witold Lutosławski Partita for Violin and Orchestra Sam Weiser '19, violin John Luther Adams Become Ocean PERFORMERS SFCM Orchestra Christopher Rountree, conductor Sam Weiser '19, violin
Find out more »Fort Wayne, IN—The Wind in High Places (Above Sunset Pass)
Supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, Fifth House Ensemble visits the Canterbury School for a two-day Rivers Empyrean residency. Musicians will work with students in the classroom and at the Eagle Marsh Nature Preserve, leading them in hands-on activities that explore themes of water usage best practices and environmental conservation. At a time when the environment is more threatened than ever with pollution and our life-giving waterways at risk, Fifth House Ensemble traces the life cycle of water from…
Find out more »Fort Wayne, IN—The Wind in High Places (Above Sunset Pass)
Supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, Fifth House Ensemble visits the Canterbury School for a two-day Rivers Empyrean residency. Musicians will work with students in the classroom and at the Eagle Marsh Nature Preserve, leading them in hands-on activities that explore themes of water usage best practices and environmental conservation. At a time when the environment is more threatened than ever with pollution and our life-giving waterways at risk, Fifth House Ensemble traces the life cycle of water from…
Find out more »May 2020
Brooklyn, NY—Strange and Sacred Noise
John Luther Adams’ radical vision is to use music to describe how we live in the world, in particular how nature changes us, and how we change it, combining a rugged sense of the elemental with a real concern for the health of the earth. At LONG PLAY, his monumental cycle is performed by Left Edge Percussion and the Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble. Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival,…
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