A Song For Friday: John Luther Adams

The master of the modern tone poem sings the earth geologic

It was ten years ago almost to the month that I got to experience a listening event for Become Ocean, the first of John Luther Adams' orchestral works engaging with the past, present, and future of our planet to be recorded. Of the monumental work, which went on to be one of the 100 best albums of the 2010s, I noted:

While it's not quite quiescent enoug…