Tag: john luther adams

  • John Luther Adams, With 800 Singers, Takes on Central Park

    John Luther Adams, With 800 Singers, Takes on Central Park

    John Luther Adams’s In the Name of the Earth, which premieres on August 11 in New York’s Central Park, may rank among the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s most logistically ambitious works to date: It calls for 800 singers, divided into four groups and perched around the Harlem Meer, the lake at the park’s northern tip bordered by bluffs…

  • ‘The Revenant’ Mixes Savage Landscapes with Classical Music

    ‘The Revenant’ Mixes Savage Landscapes with Classical Music

    For the second year in a row, the film with the most Academy Award nominations features a soundtrack peppered with classical compositions. In both instances, the filmmaker responsible for the mix is the Mexican director, producer and former composer Alejandro González Iñárritu.