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 ' 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' 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

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.

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

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.

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' 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 ' 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' 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' 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 ' 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' 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' Dark Wind for instrumental quartet (Bass Clarinet Piano Marimba and Vibraphone). John Luther Adams ' Dark Wind for instrumental quartet (Bass Clarinet Piano Marimba and Vibraphone). Score and parts. Dedicated to Marty Walker.

Score And Parts/Download-John Luther Adams: Dark Waves for two Pianos and Electronics (included as a download). John Luther Adams : Dark Waves for two Pianos and Electronics (included as a download). Duration: 12 minutes. ' As I composed this music I pondered the ominousevents of our times: terrorism and war intensifying storms and wildfires the melting of the polar ice and the rising of the seas. Yet even in the presence of our deepening fears we find ourselves immersed in the mysteriousbeauty of this world. Amid the turbulent waves we may still find the light the wisdom and the courage we need to pass through this darkness of our own making. ' - John LutherAdams

John Luther Adams ' Qilyaun for four Bass Drums. Composed in 1998. Score and parts. Qilyaun is the Iñupiaq word for the shaman's drum. Translated literally it means device of power. The drum is the shaman's vehicle for spirit journeys. The shaman rides the sound of the drum to and from the spirit world. Qilyaun (1998) may be performed by four drummers each playing a bass drum or by a single drummer with electronic delay. Commissioned by the Fairbanks Symphony Association the piece is dedicated to Scott Deal who gave its first performances. Qilyaun traverses a continuum of rhythm. From the rapid-fire streams of the opening the drummers graduallydecelerate to sustained rolls in the middle and then gradually accelerate again to the unison ending . - John Luther Adams John Luther Adams ' Qilyaun for four Bass Drums. Composed in 1998. Score and parts. 'Qilyaun' is the Iñupiaq word for the shaman's drum. Translated literally it means 'device ofpower'. The drum is the shaman's vehicle for spirit journeys. The shaman rides the sound of the drum to and from the spirit world. Qilyaun (1998) may be performed by four drummers each playing a bass drum or by a single drummer with electronic delay. Commissioned by the Fairbanks Symphony Association the piece is dedicated to Scott Deal who gave its first performances. Qilyaun traverses a continuum of rhythm.From the rapid-fire streams of the opening the drummers gradually decelerate to sustained rolls in the middle and then gradually accelerate again to the unison ending . - John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams' Night Peace for antiphonal chorus (SATB) solo Soprano Harp and Percussion. John Luther Adams' Night Peace for antiphonal chorus (SATB) solo Soprano Harp and Percussion. ' Night Peace is based entirely on a single melodic line which is heard only once sung by thesolo Soprano at the end of the piece. This melody was conceived in the luminous stillness of a moonless winter night. ' - John Luther Adams

John Luther Adams' For Jim (Rising) for Brass Sextet (3 Trumpets 3 Trombones). Score and parts. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds. John Luther Adams' For Jim (Rising) for Brass Sextet (3 Trumpets 3 Trombones). Score and parts. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds.

Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Luther Adams for Voice and Piano. This work features a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Fred and Alexandra Peters on the 30th anniversary of their wedding. Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Luther Adams for Voice and Piano. This work features a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Fred and Alexandra Peters on the 30th anniversary of theirwedding. Out of the debris of dying stars this rain of particles that waters the waste with brightness... The sea-wave of atoms hurrying home collapse of thegiant unstable guest who cannot stay... The sun's heart reddens and expands his mighty aspiration is lasting as the shell of his substance one day will bewhite with frost. In the radiant field of Orion great hordes of stars are forming just as we see every night fiery and faithful to the end. Out of thecold and fleeing dust that is never and always the silence and waste to come... This arm this hand my voice your face this love - John Haines

John Luther Adams ' Strange Birds Passing for Dorli McWayne and The Fairbanks Flutists. Composed in 1983. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds. Instrumentation: Piccolo (2) Flute (3) Alto Flute (2) Bass Flute (1) John Luther Adams ' Strange Birds Passing for Dorli McWayne and The Fairbanks Flutists. Composed in 1983. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds. Instrumentation: Piccolo (2) Flute (3) Alto Flute (2) Bass Flute (1)