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Classical Classroom, Episode 206: John Luther Adams Walks Through "Become Desert"
Classical Classroom
English - December 04, 2019 05:59 - 38 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsMusic Arts classicalmusic daciaclay learnaboutclassicalmusic music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With Become Desert, composer John Luther Adams is done "Become"-ing (learn why in this episode). First, there was the Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning Become Ocean. Then, there was Become River. Finally, in 2019, Adams put his feet on solid ground, in a terrain he's much more comfortable with. And now there's Become Desert. Here, Adams talks about what the deceptively simple pieces of the Become trilogy are, both musically and conceptually, about Desert in particular, and about why music > politics will ever be at saving the world.