John Luther Adams - List of Works

List of Works

• Green Corn Dance (1974) for percussion ensemble
• Night Peace (1976) for antiphonal choirs, solo soprano, harp, and percussion
• songbirdsongs (1974–80) for 2 piccolos and 3 percussion
• Strange Birds Passing (1983) for flute choir
• up into the silence (1978/84) (poem by e. e. cummings) for voice and piano
• How the Sun Came to the Forest (1984) (poem by John Haines) for chorus and alto flute, English horn, percussion, harp, and strings
• The Far Country of Sleep (1988) for orchestra
• Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter, Coyote Builds North America (1986–90) for theater
• magic song for one who wishes to live and the dead who climb up to the sky (1990) for voice and piano
• Dream in White On White (1992) for orchestra
• Earth and the Great Weather (1990–93) for theater, libretto published in the book "Inukshuk" edited by ARBOS - Company for Music & Theater, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85266-126-9
• Five Yup'ik Dances (1991–94) for solo harp
• Crow and Weasel (1993–94) (story by Barry Lopez) for theater
• Sauyatugvik: The Time of Drumming (1995) for orchestra
• Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991–95) for orchestra
• Five Athabascan Dances (1992/96) for harp and percussion
• Strange and Sacred Noise (1991–97) for percussion quartet
• Make Prayers to the Raven (1996/98) flute, violin, harp, cello, and percussion
• In the White Silence (1998) for orchestra
• Qilyaun (1998) for four bass drums
• Time Undisturbed (1999) for 3 shakuhachis, 3 kotos, and shō
• In a Treeless Place, Only Snow (1999) for celesta, harp, 2 vibraphones, and string quartet
• The Light That Fills the World (1999–2000) for orchestra
• Among Red Mountains (2001) for solo piano
• The Immeasurable Space of Tones (1998–2001) for violin, vibraphone, piano, sustaining keyboard, contrabass instrument
• The Farthest Place (2001) for violin, vibraphone, marimba, piano, double bass
• After the Light (2001) for alto flute, vibraphone, harp
• Dark Wind (2001) for bass clarinet, vibraphone, marimba, piano
• Red Arc / Blue Veil (2002) for piano, mallet percussion and processed sounds
• The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies (2002) for solo percussion and processed sounds
• Poem of the Forgotten (2004) (poem by John Haines) for voice and piano
• for Lou Harrison (2004, premiere 2005) for string quartet, string orchestra, and 2 pianos
• ...and bells remembered... (2005) for bowed crotales, orchestra bells, chimes, vibraphone and bowed vibraphone
• for Jim (rising) (2006) for three trumpets and three trombones
• Always Very Soft (2007) for percussion trio
• Dark Waves (2007) for orchestra and electronic sounds
• Little Cosmic Dust Poem (2007) for voice (medium) and piano
• Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) (2007) for solo piano
• Three High Places (2007) for solo violin
• Sky with Four Suns and Sky with Four Moons (2008) for four choirs
• the place we began (2008)- four electro-acoustic soundscapes
• Inuksuit (2009) for nine to ninety-nine percussion
• Four Thousand Holes (2011)