John Luther Adams Become Ocean Vinyl

John luther adams seattle symphony ludovic morlot.

John luther adams become ocean vinyl. We re made up mostly of water and life on earth first emerged from the seas. John luther adams. My hope is that the music creates a strange beautiful overwhelming sometimes even frightening landscape and invites you to get lost in it john lu. With their first collaboration ludovic morlot the seattle symphony orchestra and composer john luther adams have struck gold.

Become ocean is an american orchestral composition by john luther adams the seattle symphony orchestra commissioned the work and premiered it at benaroya hall seattle on 20 and 22 june 2013 the work won the 2014 pulitzer prize for music and the 2015 grammy award for best classical contemporary composition. John luther adams on the making of become ocean. In 2019 writers of the guardian ranked it the 10th greatest work of art music since 2000. Become ocean a été créé par l orchestre symphonique de seattle en 2013 sous la direction de.

So when steve asked me if i might be interested in composing a new piece for the saint. I was just beginning work on a large scale piece for the seattle symphony. Become ocean morlot s first large scale commission as music director of the sso is a symphonic work that feels even vaster than its forty two minute span. We came from the ocean and we re going back to the ocean right.

Cantaloupe music ca21101 format. The title comes from a poem that john cage wrote in honor of lou harrison cage observe. Become ocean premiered in seattle in june 2013 and made its carnegie hall debut on may 6 2014. Cd album dvd dvd video country.

John luther adams seattle symphony ludovic morlot become ocean cd album dvd v cantaloupe music. John luther adams born january 23 1953 is an american composer whose music is inspired by nature especially the landscapes of alaska where he lived from 1978 to 2014 garland 2007 his orchestral work become ocean was awarded the 2014 pulitzer prize for music huizenga 2014. In recent years adams has moved to fold natural processes into his approach to composing the earth element came through in particular with cantaloupe music s release in 2013 of his open air percussion piece inuksuit. Steven schick and i were having dinner together.