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October 8, 2025 • 8:58 am Comments Off on New from John Adams
I’d meant to post a link to my program note for John Adams’s brand-new orchestral piece, The Rock You Stand On, written for Marin Alsop, who recently led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the world premiere:
Listening to John Adams often feels like stepping into a drama already in motion …
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April 5, 2023 • 7:53 am Comments Off on Rites of Earth: Music of John Luther Adams and Stravinsky at Carnegie Hall
A most interesting concert at Carnegie Hall, pairing a new major work by John Luther Adams with the never-old Rite of Spring: my review for Classical Voice North America is now online.
NEW YORK — In late March, the front page of The New York Times announced the latest warning from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the headline “Earth Is Nearing The Tipping Point For A Hot Future.” It served as a grim contextual prelude to Vespers of the Blessed Earth, the latest work by John Luther Adams, which the Philadelphia Orchestra performed on its Carnegie Hall program March 31, a night after presenting the world premiere at its home base.
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