The Passion of the Weiss, 2025
In a five-decade-long career, John Luther Adams has always chosen to forge his own way, carving out a singular lane for himself as one of America’s best-known composers.
READ HERESpeaking about the sense of mourning in his music, the composer Morton Feldman once famously observed: “…I do in a sense mourn something that has to do with, say, Schubert leaving me.”
December 06, 2025
For over fifteen years now, in addition to music for the concert hall, I’ve composed a continuing series works intended to be performed out of doors. The most recent of these is Crossing Open Ground — titled after the book by my beloved friend, the late Barry Lopez, and dedicated to his memory. Since its premiere at the Aspen Music Festival, Crossing Open Ground has been performed in the plaza at Lincoln Center, and most recently in Snow Canyon, Utah. In April, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present it in Elysian Park.
February 09, 2026
This week the Australian Chamber Orchestra gives the first performances of Horizon, a diptych of two 20-minute pieces — “Visible Horizon” and “True Horizon”— which the ACO is performing on alternate concerts while on tour around Australia.