{"id":2138,"date":"2014-11-05T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:34:07","slug":"composers-you-should-know-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2014\/11\/composers-you-should-know-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"John Luther Adams: Composers to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I figured I would start a series on important living composers that most people are probably unaware of. I think a lot of symphony orchestras do a disservice by sticking to the classics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even people that regularly attend orchestra performances have a hard time naming more than a handful of living composers outside of those that have made a bit of fame through movie scores (John Corigliano or Philip Glass come to mind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a strange state of affairs if you consider any other artistic medium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An art connoisseur would have no problem listing living artists ad nauseum or an avid reader would have no problem listing living authors (and not just popular bestsellers). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The blame can be spread over many sources, but it doesn’t help that the major orchestras shy away from new music. Public education doesn’t include it, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The person I’ve picked for today has been in the news a lot recently. Can you guess from that alone? John Luther Adams won the Pulitzer Prize for music this year (did you know there was a Pulitzer for music?) for his work Become Ocean<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As such, a lot of people have written about it, but I’ll give my own take in a bit. You may be thinking, “Ah, but I have heard of this person!” Make sure you are not confusing John Luther Adams with the minimalist composer John Adams (also recently in the news for his controversial opera The Death of Klinghoffer<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\nJohn Luther Adams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n