{"id":127631,"date":"2024-10-22T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=127631"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:33:57","slug":"john-luther-adams-an-atlas-of-deep-time-south-dakota-symphony-orchestra-delta-david-grier-cantaloupe-music","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/john-luther-adams-an-atlas-of-deep-time-south-dakota-symphony-orchestra-delta-david-grier-cantaloupe-music\/","title":{"rendered":"John Luther Adams – An Atlas of Deep Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Luther Adams (not to be confused with John Adams, without Luther, and better known) is an American composer who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2014 for Become Ocean<\/em>, a huge wave of music lasting some 40 minutes. Adams is used to writing very long, immersive works in one go, and An Atlas of Deep Time<\/em> is no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with Become Ocean,<\/em> Adams plunges the listener into an immense, enveloping, shifting canvas of gigantic ebbs and flows stretching over forty minutes. Adams evokes a walk through a desert that was once, hundreds of millions of years ago, an equatorial sea teeming with life. Mentally, he dives in and inhabits this distant temporal space, the walk leaving the desert for deep time<\/em>. It’s this feeling of total immersion that he wants to share with us. And it works. We’re swept along like chaff on the irrevocable swell of the passage of time. Lots of low strings and dark brass, heavy, massive percussion and harmonies that in places recall Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony<\/em>, but in a much freer, more fluid architecture. There is something almost eschatological about the character and scale of this gargantuan score, but it is never shrill, never irritating. Above all, it is never imposed, like Wagner’s totalitarian scores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n