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	John Luther Adams: Bio
		In his 16' x 24' cabin-studio outside Fairbanks, where Adams has worked for over two decades, the vastness of Alaska has swept through the distant reaches of his imagination and every corner of his compositions.
		Adams' methods have included percussion ensembles, Alaska Native voices, orchestral residencies, sound and light installations, and elegant prose writing collected in his book Winter Music.
		In describing it as "an imaginary world that is connected directly to the real world, the larger world," Adams could be describing all of his work.
	www.johnlutheradams.com /biography/index.html (281 words)

	John Coolidge Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, with strong roots in minimalism.
		John Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1947 and graduated from Harvard University in 1971.
		John Adams became the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Association in June 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Coolidge_Adams (928 words)

	John Luther Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Luther Adams (born 1953) is a composer whose music embodies the landscapes of Alaska, his home since 1978.
		But it was not until Adams discovered Morton Feldman that he found his calling.
		Adams attended Cal Arts as an undergraduate in the early 1970s, where he studied with James Tenney and Leonard Stein.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Luther_Adams (671 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: adams, john luther
		Let's disambiguate the "John Adams." Bear with me. John Adams was the second President of the United States, defeating Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1796.
		John (and Abigail) Adams' son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President of the United States, defeating Andrew Jackson in the election of 1824, when, lacking a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives voted him to ofice.
		John Luther Adams, slightly younger than John Coolidge Adams, is the Alaska-residing, post-minimalist composer who writes music greatly influenced by his Northern environment.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/adams_john_luther (803 words)

	John Luther Adams: New
		For the occasion, JLA composed new choruses for the "Arctic Litanies" sections of the work, which were sung by the British vocal group Synergy.
		JLA and His Music are the subject of another extensive article by Sabine Feisst, which will appear in Musik Texte in fall 2001.
		Currently, JLA is at work on a permanent sound and light installation for the University of Alaska Museum, a major collaboration with percussionist Steven Schick, and Winter Music - a collection of his essays, journals and other writings, from 1974-2001.
	www.alaska.net /~jla/new (588 words)

	James Luther Adams: Theologian of Power
		James Luther Adams -- "JLA," as he came to be affectionately known -- was born in Ritzville, Wash., in 1901, the son of James Carey Adams, an itinerant Baptist preacher and farmer, and Leila Mae Bartlett.
		Adams was a major transmitter and translator of the work of the German theologians and historians Ernst Troeltsch, Karl Holl, and Paul Tillich.
		Adams founded groups for study and devotional discipline (The Greenfield Group, Brothers of the Way), participated in a therapeutic community (Gould Farm), and was active in church life and reform (as a founder of the Unitarian Commission of Appraisal in the 1930s).
	harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/adams.html (2002 words)

	village voice > music > by Kyle Gann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Adams has always been one to remind you in his music of where he lives, the big, white, frozen, arctic expanses reflected in big, shimmering, seamless tonal canvases with few distinct landmarks.
		Adams explicitly ties this development in his music to the history of abstract expressionist painting.
		Adams was only recently a "young" composer—he just turned 50—and he's one of the most cheerful artists I've ever met.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0325/gann.php (695 words)

	John Luther Adams
		John Luther Adams, newly-appointed associate professor of composition at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, will offer a world premiere of In the White Silence, an elegy and a landscape, on Wednesday, November 11, 8 p.m., in Finney Chapel.
		For more than twenty years, Adams, an ardent environmentalist, has lived on a homestead in a boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has served as a composer-in-residence with the Anchorage Symphony, the Anchorage Opera, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and as the principal percussionist for the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra.
		Adams' compositions span a wide spectrum of media, including orchestral works, chamber ensembles, radio, film, television, opera, and musical theater.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/stories/jladams.html (516 words)

	UPNE \| Winter Music
		Composer John Luther Adams makes his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has created a unique musical world grounded in the elemental landscapes and indigenous cultures of the North.
		“John Adam's reflections on his music—where it comes from conceptually and geographically, and on the history and nature of his commitment to musical composition—show an unusual awareness of the contemporary world.
		"John Luther Adams is one of the most important American composers who defines his work in the context of the natural world.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-6742-6.html (448 words)

	John Luther Adams: New
		John Luther Adams has been named one of the first United States Artists Fellows, among such distinguished musical company as Meredith Monk, Bill Frisell and Ali Akbar Khan.
		With the USA Fellowship JLA is beginning work on Sila: The Breath of the World – a major new project transforming weather and climate data from all over the Earth into music and light.
		The John Luther Adams Project - featuring Robert Black, Amy Knoles, Todd Reynolds, Vicki Ray and Steven Schick - is now available for performances and residencies.
	www.johnlutheradams.com /new (284 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		John Luther Adams (not to be confused with John Adams) writes what might best be called "eco-music", often inspired by the vistas of his native Alaska.
		That's the danger inherent in any hermetically sealed style such as this, but the fact is that Adams works best on a larger canvas, and In the White Silence, where Morton Feldman rubs shoulders with Alan Hovhaness, should win the composer many friends, for it's a gorgeous 75 minutes of meditative stillness.
		Anyone coming to Adams' music for the first time should start with this disc, for it really does make the best possible case for his personal artistic vision.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6442 (420 words)

	CDeMUSIC: John Luther Adams
		John Luther Adams is a composer, environmentalist, percussionist, writer, and radio producer.
		His music, which includes compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, radio, film, television, and theater, has always been profoundly influenced by the natural world and a strong sense of place.
		Adams currently lives in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska.
	www.cdemusic.org /artists/adamsjl.html (155 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: adams, john
		Adams' artistic skill and contrapuntal ingenuity weave this sonic collage into a heart-breaking, deeply moving memorial that seems to encompass all of the grief, anger and transcendance of those tragic events of three years ago.
		In his program notes (PDF), Adams describes the women of the scientists suffering while their husbands labored to build the atomic bomb and how the text he used from the poet Muriel Rukeyser goes from despair to hope.
		Adams also says that the piece is not improvised, uses just intonation, and was inspired by Jack Kerouac's book Big Sur.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/adams_john (7720 words)

	John Luther Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Adams' works have been performed in concert and broadcast on radio and television throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Great Britain and Australia.
		Born in 1953 and raised on the East Coast, Adams studied composition with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts (BFA '73), where his other teachers included Harold Budd, Leonard Stein, Morton Subotnick and Mel Powell.
		Adams continues his environmental recordings for the Alaska Soundacape Project, and is developing a new organization centered on the interrelationships between ecology and the arts.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/adamsjl (612 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		For the past twenty-five years, composer John Luther Adams has made his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska.
		Adams' music embraces a wide range of media - including works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, radio, film, television, and theater - and is recorded on New World, New Albion, Opus One, Owl and Centaur.
		JLA: I live in the hills northwest of Fairbanks, amid the boreal forest of birch, spruce and aspen, overlooking the Tanana River flats and the peaks of the central Alaska Range.
	www.sequenza21.com /Adams.html (2275 words)

	WNYC - Music - New Sounds Live
		John Luther Adams descends from Alaska with a new piece called "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies," for solo percussion and computer-processed sounds.
		Adams has worked with many prominent performers and venues, including Bang On A Can, Almeida Opera, the California E.A.R. Unit, FLUX Quartet, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Percussion Group Cincinnati, the Sundance Institute and Arena Stage.
		John Luther Adams drops by New Sounds on March 3, 2003 to discuss his career and his music.
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/23178 (527 words)

	Incursion.org 063
		In these moments, three new compositions by John Luther Adams take up a new space in my home, and slowly sink into my mind as a gentle snowfall slowly covers the ground with its whiteness.
		Adams makes his home in Alaska, a long way from the streets of Toronto where I wander from day to day.
		Compared to the act of automatic writing, this is a spontaneous recording, a singular moment in the ether, elucidated here in such a way so as to make like the sun, and at the same time, like a similarly shaped hole that emits such radiation through.
	www.incursion.org /imr/archive/063.html (3150 words)

	Review: In the White Silence by John Luther Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For John Luther Adams, composing is not about finding the notes, it's about losing them.
		Referencing his fascination for the "treeless, windswept expanses of the Arctic", Adams ponders his primary musical influence, "the colors on the snow suggest to me broad diatonic washes suffused with gradually-changing chromatic harmonies." In the White Silence is the sonically transmitable design of Adams' spiritual revelations.
		His position as composer, in the setting of a contemporary orchestral ensemble, leads him to fashion and arrange phrases and figures into that which we as listeners will be able to translate and be moved by, "Identical formal structures recur, from section to section.
	www.nothinbut.net /~starsnd/InTheWhiteSilence.html (374 words)

	May 2003
		John Luther Adams has lived in Alaska for the past quarter of a century, and is at pains to let you know it: "I've come to measure everything I do [..] against the overwhelming presence of this place..
		It is the presence of stillness," writes Adams, but despite the fact that there is plenty of stasis - especially harmonic - in the piece, there is in point of fact no silence at all.
		And that's perhaps what differentiates John Luther Adams' music the most from that of his namesake down the coast - its total absence of irony.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2003/05may_text.html (3650 words)

	NewPages Book Reviews - Winter Music by John Luther Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To an untrained ear, John Luther Adams’ music sounds like the soundtrack to a first rate documentary about the Alaskan wilderness, a strikingly faithful-to-the-original aural representation of intense cold, of water freezing and ice cracking apart, of daylight and darkness tearing free from their expected alternations, of a place characterized chiefly by silence.
		Adams seems to possess a remarkable gift for listening, and thereby for hearing (“in the growl of boot steps on fresh snow at 40 below zero, in the haunted cry of a boreal owl, in the luminous dance of the aurora borealis across a moonless sky”) the strange, ethereal music of an overwhelmingly silent place.
		He thinks of silence as “a profound metaphor of the spirit” and believes that “one of the most persuasive arguments for the preservation of the original landscape here may be its spiritual value as a great reservoir” of the same:
	www.newpages.com /bookreviews/archive/reviews/winter_music.htm (218 words)

	John Luther Adams: Bio
		Adams studied composition with James Tenney and Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts, where his other teachers included Harold Budd, Mel Powell, and Morton Subotnik.
		Adams has served as composer in residence with the Anchorage Symphony, Fairbanks Symphony, Arctic Chamber Orchestra, Anchorage Opera, and the Alaska Public Radio Network, and has taught at the University of Alaska, Bennington College, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
		Articles about Adams and his music appear in The New Grove Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and Musicians, American Music in the 20th Century (G. Schirmer), Music in the United States (Prentice Hall), and The Avant Music Guide (Japan).
	www.alaska.net /~jla/biography (377 words)

	Newegg.com - Koch Entertainment Distribution John Luther Adams: Strange and Scared Noise for Percussion Not Rated ...
		Composer John Luther Adams finds inspiration in the harsh Alaskan landscape for this piece, an abrasive and difficult mesh of sounds that offers a challenging listening experience.
		Adams, a resident of Alaska, attempts to emulate the audible fracas emanating from the landscape by using a percussion quartet who produce some jarring and unsettling sounds over the nine movements in STRANGE AND SACRED NOISE.
		Presented in a glorious 5.1 surround sound mix, this DVD-Audio presentation is a great way to experience the unique work that Adams is capable of producing.
	www.newegg.com /Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E168764593015390DV (245 words)

	John Luther Adams: Earth and the Great Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Luther Adams: Earth and the Great Weather
		John Luther Adams is a "new music" composer based in Alaska, whose works rise from a deep immersion in the landscapes of the north.
		While his tonalities and dynamics reflect modern classical approaches, exploring subtle shifting patterns, unusual harmonics, and microtonalities, and so will ask the listener to step outside more familiar musical structures, his groundedness in place sets his work apart from the more abstract or conceptual sonic explorations of his contemporaries.
	www.earthear.com /catalog/earthgreatweather.html (212 words)

	CB0010
		However, John Luther Adams' recent work tends to transcend his compositional devices—it is simply potent, compelling music that is timeless in its sublimity.
		Adams has received awards and fellowships from Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Arts Partners Program, the Rockefeller Foundation, Opera America, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.
		She gave the world premiere of John Adams' Road Movies at the Kennedy Center and the premiere of Virko Baley's Kolimayaka, a Dance for solo violin at Carnegie Hall.
	www.coldbluemusic.com /pages/CB0010.html (2566 words)

	John Luther Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this respect, John Luther Adam's new record, Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing could be called StairMaster modernism.
		The difference between Feldman and Adams is that Feldman climbed a mountain--he had an experience and might have even gotten some exercise at the same time--where as Adams has been spending a lot of time on the StairMaster, working on his quads.
		Their records don't even bother to sound "original" or "transcendent;" they've made peace with the idea that the author died a long time ago and are pleased to be working within the new stylistic freedoms that come with the new turf.
	www.wfmu.org /~kennyg/popular/reviews/adams.html (426 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I was not previously familiar with Adams’ music, though from what I read and heard from others about it, he is known for large-scale works inhabiting large spaces, luminous, consonant, and serene.
		In the program notes, Adams writes that his “growing fascination with the violence of nature led [him] to a rudimentary study of chaos theory, fractal geometry and the science of complexity” and that this piece was his first attempt to work some of these ideas into a musical composition.
		In the first selection from the Adams piece, all four players were pounding away mechanically on their snare drum in different corners of the hall, staring straight ahead and yet were able to stop exactly together for the few strategically placed silences without any body language or outward communication whatever.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/otherminds2_3_1_05.php (1734 words)

	Amazon.com: The Far Country: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Luther Adams - In the White Silence ~ Arturo Araya (Performer), et al
		john luther adams, a resident of alaska, consistently blows me away with his ability to transplant even the most urban of us to another land, another place, another time.
		John Adams- Composer (and Samuel's brother): A list by torkedorke, Music student
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000R3L?v=glance (615 words)

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