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…

John Luther Adams' Four Thousand Holes for Piano Percussion (Vibraphone and Orchestra Bells) and Electronic Aura. Composed in 2010 and dedicated to Stephen Drury. Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds.'Four Thousand Holes is my own effort to re-appropriate and reclaim for myself something of my own musical past. For the first time since my days as a rocker I've chosen to restrict myself to major and m…

Player Score-John Luther Adams' Dream Of The Canyon Wren for String Quartet. Player score.

John Luther Adams' Tukiliit for solo Piano. Composed in 2012. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds.

John Luther Adams' Five Athabascan Dances for Harp and Percussion. Duration: 16 minutes. 'These pieces are inspired by the music and spirit of the Athabascan people ofAlaska's boreal forest. The first and third dances are based on songs by Joe Beetus a Koyukon elder from the village of Huslia. The second dance is based on a short traditional song of the Dena'ingpeople of the Kenai Peninsula as r…

Score And Parts/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 my…

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…

John Luther Adams' The Immeasurable Space Of Tones for Violin Vibraphone Piano sustaining Keyboard and Contrabass. Duration: 30 minutes. 'Number 5 1950 was MarkRothko's last painting before the breakthrough into his mature format. In it the luminous color fields of a classic Rothko are inscribed across the middle with three delicate lines. Describing thispainting and its pivotal position in Ro…

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 eveningssinging to myself as a man singswhen he knows there isno one t…

Selected and annotated by Felix Swinstead

Piano - intermediate

SKU: BT.SOLDES721

Composed by J. L. Thomas. Book Only. Editions Soldano #SOLDES721. Published by Editions Soldano (BT.SOLDES721).

Piano

SKU: HL.233294

Piano Solo. Composed by John Luther Adams. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 12 pages. Duration 390 seconds. Taiga Press #CH86141. Published by Taiga Press (HL.233294).

9.0x12.0x0.065 inches. English.

John Luther…

Piano

SKU: HL.233155

Piano Solo. Composed by John Luther Adams. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 14 pages. Taiga Press #CH85855. Published by Taiga Press (HL.233155).

9.0x12.0x0.076 inches. English.

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