For picc/bs clnt (one player), four percussion, celesta, harp, and string quintet.
90:00
Commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Children’s Theater company. Script published by Samuel French.
“A Sonic Geography of the Arctic”.
For vln, vla, vlc, cb, digital delay, 4 singers (SSAB), 4 percussion, 4 speaking voices and recorded natural sounds.
90:00
Commissioned by the Alaska Festival of Native Arts.
Recorded on New World Records.
“…John Luther Adams’ powerful Earth and the Great Weather was less a traditional opera, more an environment in which to contemplate the fragile sounds the composer created and the bleak, beautiful landscapes he evoked… Vocal quartet Synergy gave a restrained but potent performance verging on ritual enactment.” - BBC Music Magazine
“…a powerful amalgam of poetry, philosophy and music…” - Opera Magazine
Stories by Barry Lopez.
For clnt (e-flat and bass), vln, cb, 4 percussion and storyteller.
70:00
Commissioned by Perseverance Theater.
“…timeless wisdom and humor… Coyote is a work that is full of wonder… The capacity audience responded at the end of the evening by standing up and howling back.” - Rutland (VT) Daily Herald
“…A howl of a production…Coyote is theatrically, musically, visually, psychologically and spiritually powerful medicine.” – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner