This past Friday and Saturday, the Georgia State University School of Music and contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency presented three concerts of music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams. Born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1953, Adams spent brief portions of his life in or near Atlanta before moving to the interior of Alaska, where he lived for 36 years — crucial to the evolution of his unique personal musical voice. Adams received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in music for his orchestral work, “Become Ocean,” a composition that subsequently won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. More.
