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Summer Solstice Events for Savoring These Long Summer Days

Braid yourself a flower crown, dance barefoot, or crack open a cold one we’re approaching the summer solstice on June 21, marking the official first day of summer and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In DC, we’re set to get nearly 15 hours of glorious daylight, during which the sun will ....

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John Luther Adams: a guide to the composer and his music

Rebecca Franks describes how the American composer John Luther Adams found his distinct musical style by abandoning all for the wilderness of Alaska ....

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Percussion

Listen to the varied, explosive, resonant sounds of instruments struck, shaken, pounded, scratched. ....

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Classical Notes: The frozen aesthetic of John Luther Adams

Classical Notes: The frozen aesthetic of John Luther Adams
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The deep of winter felt like an appropriate time for an immersion into the work of John Luther Adams, a 68-year-old composer whose aesthetic is tuned into the natural world, in particular the frozen landscapes of Alaska, where he lived for more than 30 years. Adams won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his orchestral piece “Become Ocean,” which has just been released as part of a 3-CD set on the Cantaloupe label. This coincides with the publication of his memoir, “Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). ....

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