John Luther Adams Portrait
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams emerged from decades of full-time environmental activism with a rich artistic voice and a belief that music can do more to change the world than politics. Adams' vision of a musical expression searching for its future home through a grounded presence in our natural world has inspired JACK Quartet to create nine quartets with him, including our GRAMMY-nominated album Lines Made By Walking. Letting the natural resonance of the quartet's strings ring out as if swept by the wind atop a mountain or tracing the steps of Adams' daily walks in the Montana foothills, the music is an invitation to inhabit space and sound and to rediscover a fascination with music's very relationship to the natural world.
“John Luther Adams’s music is an invitation to inhabit space and sound, and to rediscover a fascination with music’s very relationship to the natural world.”
| Sample Program: John Luther Adams Portrait | Duration |
|---|---|
| John Luther Adams: untouched (2016) | 26 |
| John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (2011) | 18 |
| -intermission- | |
| John Luther Adams: Lines Made by Walking (2019) | 30 |
| Total Run Time | 74' |
This sample program can be revised in collaboration between JACK and the presenting venue.