Canticles of the Holy Wind, by John Luther Adams & The Crossing

Canticles of the Holy Wind

by John Luther Adams & The Crossing

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	1.	Sky with Four Suns 04:09
	2.	The White Wind 04:00
	3.	Dream of the Hermit Thrush 05:25
	4.	Sky with Four Moons 03:40
	5.	The Singing Tree 05:46
	6.	The Blue Wind 04:08
	7.	The Hour of the Doves 05:22
	8.	Sky with Nameless Colors 04:20
	9.	Cadenza of the Mockingbird 05:20
	10.	The Yellow Wind 04:01
	11.	Dream of the Canyon Wren 06:28
	12.	Sky with Endless Stars 03:44
	13.	The Hour of the Owls 05:51
	14.	The Dark Wind 04:06

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Lauded by the New York Times as a “...hypnotic and ethereally beautiful invocation of wind, sky and birdsong,” John Luther Adams’ Canticles of the Holy Wind, performed by the renowned chamber choir The Crossing, is his most technically challenging choral work, and yet the music’s mesmerizing aura of stillness encourages listening at its most elemental. The piece is composed for four choirs of eight singers each, and moves through spaces that are as fantastical (“Sky with Four Suns”) as they are serene (“The Hour of the Doves”), always with a connection to our inner world, as well as the world around us.

“John allows us to interrupt our otherwise endlessly forward-tumbling lives,” notes Donald Nally, The Crossing’s conductor, “and experience these sounds as if we were sitting in the woods for an hour. An hour of wind and of sky and of birds. We are drawn to this music, not just for the beauty of its shimmering harmonies and the overwhelming climactic moments, but also for way it inspires a ‘hearing’ of nature, in real time, as we sing it.”

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released May 12, 2017

Donald Nally, conductor
John Grecia, accompanist
Amy Garapic, percussion

The Crossing is:
Katy Avery, Julie Bishop, Steven Bradshaw, Sharon Byrne, Malcolm Cooper, Micah Dingler, Hannah Dixon- McConnell, Robert Eisentrout, Ryan Fleming, Joanna Gates, Dimitri German, Barbara Hill, Steven Hyder, Michael Jones, Nickolas Karageorgiou, Heather Kayan, Heidi Kurtz, Chelsea Lyons, Frank Mitchell, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers, Daniel O’Dea, Becky Oehlers, Christine Papania, Wilbur Pauley, Alexandra Porter, James Reese, Kyle Sackett, Daniel Schwartz, Rebecca Siler, Daniel Spratlan, Elisa Sutherland, Daniel Taylor, Jackson Williams

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In such works as Become Ocean, In the White Silence, and Canticles of the Holy Wind, JLA brings the sense of wonder that we feel outdoors into the concert hall. And in outdoor works like Inuksuit and Sila: The Breath of the World, he employs music as a way to reclaim our connections with place, wherever we may be. ... more

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