In the name of the Earth : (North) / John Luther Adams.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Adams, John Luther, 1953- composer.

Contributor:

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, commissioning body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.

Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with percussion.

North America--Songs and music.

North America.

Earth (Planet)--Songs and music.

Earth (Planet).

Genre:

Art music.

Scores.

Songs and music.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 score (91 pages) ; 21 x 30 cm

Distribution:

Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk : Exclusive distributors: Music Sales, Ltd.

Place of Publication:

[Fairbanks, AK] : Taiga Press ; London : Chester Music, [2018]

Language Note:

Staff notation.

English words also printed as text.

Notes:

Cover title.

For choirs of 4 to 8 parts, in different combinations of SATB. This score includes only 6 parts of 24 part mixed chorus; scores for East, South, and West are available separately.

In the name of the earth is a celebration of this beautiful planet earth. It is a musical atlas of North America. This work is scored for four choirs that evoke the landscapes and waterscapes of the North, South, East and West. It may be performed outdoors or indoors, but in either setting the choirs should be widely separated from one another (the information taken from program notes by composer).

Duration: approximately 45 min.

The text is composed entirely from place names, plant names and other terms for geographic and geologic feature of North America.

Includes program notes by composer and performance note in English.

Contains a piano part for rehearsal only.

Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

"April 28 2018"--Page 2.

Premiered August 11, 2018, in New York City, conducted by Simon Halsey.

OCLC:

1121195734

Publisher Number:

5020679283257

CH87692-01 Taiga Press/Chester Music Ltd.