John Luther Adams' Make Prayers To The Raven for Flute Percussion Harp Violin and Cello. John Luther Adams ' Make Prayers To The Raven for Flute Percussion Harp Violin and Cello . Approx. duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds. ' This little suite is drawn fromthe score of a music-theater work for children. Movements II and IV are based on my settings of poems in the Gwich'in Athabascan dialect written by Adeline Peter Raboff. The title is borrowed from the book byRichard K. Nelson about the Koyukon Athabascan people and the profound connections between their cultural traditions and the land in which they live '. - John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams ' The Light That Fills The World for Chamber Ensemble (6 players). Score and parts. Duration: 13 minutes. ' The Light That Fills The World' was written in late winter and early spring when - following the long darkness of winter - the world is still white and filled with new light. If the unrelenting texture of this music embodies stasis I hope its prevalent tone evokes the ecstatic. The title of the piece is borrowed from an Inuit song which sings of the close relationship between beauty and terror risk and revelation .' - John Luther Adams Fairbanks Alaska August 1999 John Luther Adams ' The Light That Fills The World for Chamber Ensemble (6 players). Score and parts. Duration: 13 minutes. ' The Light That Fills The World' was written in late winter andearly spring when - following the long darkness of winter - the world is still white and filled with new light. If the unrelenting texture of this music embodies stasis I hope its prevalent tone evokes the ecstatic. The title of the piece is borrowed from an Inuit song which sings of the close relationship between beauty and terror risk and revelation .' - John Luther Adams Fairbanks Alaska August 1999

John Luther Adams' Poem Of The Forgotten for Voice and Piano. Duration: 5 minutes. John Luther Adams' Poem Of The Forgotten for Voice and Piano. Duration: 5 minutes. This work sets a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Haines on the occasion of his 80thbirthday. I came to this place a young man green and lonely. Well quit of the world I framed a house of moss and timber called it a home andsat in the warm evenings singing to myself as a man sings when he knows there is no one to hear. I made my bed under the shadow of leaves and awoke in the first snow of autumn filled with silence. - John Haines

John Luther Adams ' The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies for solo Percussion and processed sounds. The Mathematics Of Resonant Bodies was commissioned by the Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art WNYC (New York) and the Subtropics Festival (Miami) with funding from Meet the Composer. This work is dedicated to Steven Schick. Duration: 70 minutes.

John Luther Adams' Green Corn Dance for six percussionists. Score and parts. Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds. John Luther Adams' Green Corn Dance for six percussionists. Score and parts. Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds.

John Luther Adams' Among Red Mountains for solo Piano. John Luther Adams' Among Red Mountains for solo Piano. ' I've always been intimidated by the Piano. As a performer I never played it very well. And as a composer I've never felt as if Icould make the instrument my won. On a recent trip to New York I heard the premiere performance of a lovely chamber work by Kyle Gann that embraces multiple tempos without sustaining them all at the same time.On the way home to Alaska I passed through Seattle. In the Seattle airport there's a large painting by Frank Stella It's one of his protractor works in which arcs of bright colours weave in and out of one another in a dizzyingcounterpoint of imaginary planes. Studying this painting (after hearing Gann's music) it occurred to me that I might be able to do something similar with the Piano. Virtually all my recent music has been composedof four five or six simultaneous tempo layers. If those ensemble and orchestral pieces are multi-dimensional sculptures then Among Red Mountains is more like a drawing. In this piece the challenge I set for myself was tosuggest five independent tempo planes within the limitations of two hands and what Vicki Ray calls 'the Big Black Box'. For three decades I've admired the Piano music of Peter Garland. At last I have a piece thatI hope is worthy of this dedication. The title Among Red Mountains is the translation of the Gwitch'in Athabascan name for a place in the Brooks Range north of Arctic Village .' - John LutherAdams

John Luther Adams' The Farthest Place for Vibraphone Marimba Piano Violin and Double Bass. Score and parts. Duration: 11 minutes. John Luther Adams ' The Farthest Place for Vibraphone Marimba Piano Violin and Double Bass. Score and parts. Duration: 11 minutes.

This the string quartet version now available with score and parts was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association with Gustavo Dudamel as Music Director. John Luther Adams' Canticles Of The Sky for String Quartet. Composer's Note: In the Arctic sky the low angle of the sun and heavy ice crystals in the air often produce vivid halos arcs andsundogs (parhelia). Sometimes these phenomena create the illusion of multiple suns. 'Sky With Four Suns' is a musical evocation of such an apparition from sunrise to sunset. Similar visions also occur at night which isthe image behind 'Sky With Four Moons.' 'Sky With Nameless Colors' and 'Sky With Endless Stars' evoke the extraordinary depth and clarity of Sonoran Desert skies. This music is drawn from Canticles of the Holy Wind- a concert-length work for four choirs and vocal soloists. In this version sixteen separate choral parts have been condensed into the string quartet. String designations should be carefully observed. Frequent stringcrossings are employed to create as lush and continuous textures as possible. All sounds should be legato. Bowing is free and full throughout. Total performance duration is about 18:00

From Coyote Builds North America-John Luther Adams ' Five Percussion Quartets From Coyote Builds North America . These pieces are drawn from the music-theater work Coyote Builds North America a collaboration with writer Barry Lopez based on traditional Native American stories. They feature poems from Coyote's Bones and Indian Tales by Jaime de Angulo. John Luther Adams ' Five Percussion Quartets From Coyote Builds North America . These pieces are drawn from the music-theater work Coyote Builds North America a collaboration with writerBarry Lopez based on traditional Native American stories. They feature poems from Coyote's Bones and Indian Tales by Jaime de Angulo.