Coyote Builds North America (Five Pieces for Mixed Ensemble)
John Luther Adams
Music from the music-theater collaboration with Barry Lopez, scored for clarinet (e-flat and bass), violin, doublebass and two percussion. Pieces include Coyote's Dance, Water Music, A Little Joke, Coyote's Complaint and Death and the Meadowlark. "Threatening and horrific like a gale wind, and nurturing and comforting like a heartbeat..." Bangor Daily News
Coyote Builds North America (Five Percussion Quartets)
John Luther Adams
Works that combine the spirit of native American drumming with the energy of rock 'n roll: Invocation, Consecration, Playing With Fire, Giving Birth to Thunder and Always Coming Home.
Green Corn Dance (for six percussion)
John Luther Adams
An homage to the classic percussion works of Cowell, Cage and Harrison, and to the rich traditions of native American drumming.
The Far Country of Sleep (in memoriam Morton Feldman)
John Luther Adams
This recent orchestral work pays homage to the imaginary landscapes of Feldman's music and evokes the unbroken distance and silences of the arctic. "...A ravishingly beautiful landscape..." San Francisco Examiner
Forest Without Leaves (excerpts) (for choir and orchestra)
John Luther Adams
A setting of poems by John Haines, recorded on Owl album #32. "...Sensitive, stately, solemn, dramatic..." Option magazine
Dust into dust (for two snare drums and two field drums)
John Luther Adams
A translation of the fractal forms of "Cantor dust" into musical time. This is the first piece in Strange and Sacred Noise, an extended cycle for percussion quartet which explores chaos, fractal geometry and noise.
Five Yup'ik Dances
John Luther Adams
Short pieces for solo harp, based on the indigenous music of the Yup'ik Eskimo people of Western Alaska.
Dream in White on White
John Luther Adams
Scored for string quartet, solo harp and string ensemble. A sweeping musical landscape in the acoustically perfect tones of Pythagorean diatonic tuning, evoking the treeless, windswept expanses of western Alaska. Recorded on a New Albion CD.
Magic song for one who wishes to live/the dead who climb to the sky
John Luther Adams
Two songs for voice and piano, with texts from the Ammassalik and Thule Eskimo.
Beachcombers
Larry Austin
Live-electronic music for four musicians and tape, commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation for performance with the dance work and film, Coast Zone. Choreographed by Merce Cunningham and first performed by John Cage, voice; Martin Kalve, koto; Takehisa Kosugi, violin; and David Tudor, electronics.
Score and 6 performance audio cassettes
