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Джон Лютер Адамс: біографія

американський композитор
Біографія
В юності захоплювався рок-музикою, через Френка Заппи відкрив Едгара Вареза, потім - Джона Кейджа, а ще пізніше - Мортона Фелдман. Закінчив Каліфорнійську художню школу. У 1975, працюючи в суспільствах з охорони навколишнього середовища, приїхав на Аляску, що стала для нього потім постійним джерелом творчості.
Характеристика творчості
Переживши і засвоївши досвід мінімалізму, зосередившись на проблемі статичного в музиці, Д. Л. А. розвиває медитативний музичну мову, пов'язаний з музичним втіленням місця, «звуковий географією» необжитих просторів, близьких до територій уяви і тому наповнених високим смислом, близьким до сакрального.
Твори
- In a Treeless Place, Only Snow (1999) for celesta, harp, 2 vibraphones, and string quartet
- Among Red Mountains (2001) for solo piano < li>For Lou Harrison (2004, premiere 2005) for string quartet, string orchestra, and 2 pianos
- Dark Wind (2001) for bass clarinet, vibraphone, marimba, piano
- Red Arc / Blue Veil (2002) for piano, mallet percussion and processed sounds
- Time Undisturbed (1999) for japaneses instruments
- Strange Birds Passing (1983) for flute choir up into the silence (1978/84) (poem by EECummings) for voice and piano
- Night Peace (1976) for antiphonal choirs, solo soprano, harp, and percussion songbirdsongs (1974-80) for 2 piccolos and 3 percussion
- How the Sun Came to the Forest (1984) (poem by John Haines) for chorus and alto flute, English horn, percussion, harp, and strings
- Make Prayers to the Raven (1996/98) flute, violin, harp, cello, and percussion
- Five Yup'ik Dances (1991-94) for solo harp
- The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1998 - 2001) for violin, vibraphone, piano, sustaining keyboard, contrabass instrument
- The Far Country of Sleep (1988) for orchestra, in the memory of the late Morton Feldman
- After the Light (2001) for alto flute, vibraphone, harp
- Green Corn Dance (1974) for percussion ensemble
- Strange and Sacred Noise (1991-97) for percussion quartet
- Sauyatugvik: The Time of Drumming (1995) for orchestra
- The Light That Fills the World (1999-2000) for orchestra
- Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95) for orchestra
- Poem of the Forgotten (2004) (poem by John Haines) for voice and piano
- The Farthest Place (2001) for violin, vibraphone, marimba, piano, double bass
- Crow and Weasel ( 1993-94) (story by Barry Lopez) for theater
- Five Athabascan Dances (1992/96) for harp and percussion
- Qilyaun (1998) for four bass drums
- The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies (2002) for solo percussion and processed sounds
- Dark Waves для оркестру і електроніки (2007)
- Dream in White On White (1992) for orchestra
- Earth and the Great Weather (1990-93) for theater, libretto published in the book "Inukshuk" edited by ARBOS - Company for Music & Theater, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85266-126-9
- In the White Silence (1998) for orchestra
- Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter, Coyote Builds North America (1986-90) for theater magic song for one who wishes to live and the dead who climb up to the sky (1990) for voice and piano
Тексти
- Winter music: Composing the North. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2004.