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John Luther Adams - Selected Bibliograpgy

Writings by John Luther Adams

"The Immeasurable Space of Tones," Musicworks 91 (Spring, 2005)

"Sonic Geography Alaska," Musicworks 93 (Fall, 2005)

Winter Music: Composing the North (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)

"Global Warming and Art," Orion (September - October, 2003)

"Global Warming and Art," Musicworks 86 (Summer, 2003)

"Winter Music. A Composer's Journal," The Best Spiritual Writing 2002 (Harper Collins, 2002)

"Winter Music. A Composer's Journal," Musicworks 82 (February, 2002)

"The Place Where You Go to Listen," The Book of Music and Nature (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) pp 181-182.

"Winter Music. A Composer's Journal," Reflections on American Music (Pendragon Press, 2000) pp 31-48.

"Strange and Sacred Noise," Yearbook of Soundscape Studies (Vol. 1: "Northern Soundscapes," ed. R. Murray Schafer and Helmi Järviluoma, 1998), pp 143-146.

"The Place Where You Go to Listen," Terra Nova, 2/3, 1997, pp 15-16.

"From the Ground Up," The Utne Reader, March-April, 1995, p 86.

"Resonance of Place, Confessions of an Out-of-Town Composer," The North American Review, January/February, 1994, pp 8-18.

Interviews

Molly Sheridan, “Winter Music: A Conversation with John Luther Adams”, NewMusicBox, November 2004.

Amy Mayer, “Meditative Music from Alaska”, All Things Considered (National Public Radio), September 26, 2004.

Mark Alburger, "A to Z: Interviews with John Luther Adams," 21 st Century Music, 7/1, 2000, pp 1-12.

Gayle Young, "Sonic Geography of the Arctic. An Interview with John Luther Adams," Musicworks, 70, 1998, pp 38-43.

Liane Hansen, "Alaska Inspires New Sounscape from John Luther Adams," Weekend Edition (National Public Radio), February 12, 1995.

Writings About John Luther Adams

Molly Sheridan, "Cold Spell," Time Out New York (Issue 553, May 4-10, 2006)

Amy Mayer, "Northern Exposure," Boston Globe (April 16, 2006)

Kyle Gann, "Long Ride in a Slow Machine," NewMusicBox (March 29, 2006)

Mike Dunham, "The Harmony of the Spheres," Orion (March-April 2006)

Rupert Lloydel, "The Great White Wonder," Tangents (November 2004)

Alan Gimbel, "In the White Silence," American Record Guide (September - October, 2003)

Kyle Gann, "Erasing the Lines: John Luther Adams Explores a New Landscape of Pure Harmony," The Village Voice (June 18-24, 2003)

Kyle Gann, "American Composer: John Luther Adams," Chamber Music (Vol 19 No. 1, February, 2002)

Sabine Feisst, "Klanggeographie - Klanggeometrie. Der US-amerikanische Komponist John Luther Adams," Musiktexte 91 (November 2001) pp 4-14.

Mark Alburger, "The Big Picture," 21 st Century Music, 8/10, 2001, p 19.

Kyle Gann in H. Wiley Hitchcock, Music in the United States (Prentice-Hall, 2000) pp 381-382.

Phil England, "A Music Drama Celebrating Alaska's Arctic Refuge," The Wire , No. 199, 2000, p. 66.

Joshua Kosman, "John Luther Adams," New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, second edition, ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell (London: MacMillan, 2000)

David Bündler, "Recent Works by John Luther Adams," 21 st Century Music, 7/2, 2000, p 14.

Toshie Kakinuma, Avant Music Guide (Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 1999), pp 238-239.

Mitchell Morris, "Ectopian Sound or The Music of John Luther Adams and Strong Environmentalism," Crosscurrents and Counterpoints: Offerings in Honor of Berngt Hambraeus at 70, ed. P. F. Broman, N.A. Engebretnen and B. Alphonce (Göthenburg: University of Sweden Press, 1998), pp 129-141.

Kyle Gann, "A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism. An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music," Program Notes for the Minimalism Festival of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, 1998.

Kyle Gann, American Music in the Twentieth Century (New York: Schirmer, 1997), pp 368-371.

Thomas B. Harrison, "To Hear the Unheard," Alaska Magazine, February 1993, p 96.

Eric Salzman, "Two John Adamses," Stereo Review, 46/10, 1981, p 140.

Compiled by Sabine Feisst

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