John Luther Adams - for Lou Harrison (2007)

Since 1978, Alaska has been John Luther Adams's (b. 1953) home and a major inspirational source for most of his compositions. Almost all of his compositions evoke natural phenomena, in particular the wintry Northern landscapes, light, and colors as well as elements of indigenous Alaskan cultures. Adams's music thus shares aesthetic features with nature-inspired works of such composers as Debussy, Ives, Sibelius, and Hovhaness. Due to the use of certain "minimalist" strategies Adams's music is often classified as "minimalist" or "post minimalist." He avoids expressive musical rhetoric, prefers reduced and elementally simple musical material, and frequently uses sustained tones and static textures. Adams's compositions embrace just intonation, consonance, and modal harmony, and they often feature a meditative quality and extended length reminiscent of Feldmanesque dimensions.

Composed in 2003–2004, for Lou Harrison completes a trilogy of large-scale memorial works that also includes Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991–95) and In the White Silence (1998). for Lou Harrison encompasses the most lush and active textures in my music to date, moving in four tempo layers (in the proportions 4/5/6/7) throughout. The work’s two textures—rising arpeggios over sustained harmonic clouds, and long solo lines over “procession-like” material—alternate in nine continuous sections, each of which is grounded in a different five-, six- or seven-tone harmony. The formal structures of the composition recur throughout the score, but the sound of the music is always changing. for Lou Harrison was not commissioned. I composed this work because I was compelled to do so in response to the death of one of the most important figures in my life. Amid the daunting realities of today’s world, Lou Harrison and his joyful ecumenical life and music seem more vital and more pertinent than ever before. - John Luther Adams

About composer see here - http://www.johnlutheradams.com/




Track Listing:

1. Beginning 5:34
2. Measure 93 8:40
3. Letter H 5:34
4. Measure 315 8:40
5. Letter P 5:34
6. Measure 537 8:40
7. Letter X 5:37
8. Measure 759 8:40
9. Letter Ff 6:00


# Performer: The Callithumpian Consort
# Conductor: Stephen Drury
# Composer: John Luther Adams
# Audio CD (September 1, 2007)
# Number of Discs: 1
# Label: New World Records
# ASIN: B000UEMA3Q

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