John Luther Adams Work Named One Of The Best Classical Performances

The New Yorker’s Alex Ross recently posted his choices for best classical performances in 2011 and included John Luther Adams’ work, Inuksuit, as one of them:
“John Luther Adams’s percussion symphony “Inuksuit,” which made a glorious noise at the Park Avenue Armory, is the work of an Alaskan activist composer who has long campaigned against the despoliation of his home state.”

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Ojai Music Festival and the Ojai community will get its chance to see this astonishing work on Thursday, June 7 at 5 pm. Plans are for 48 percussionists and piccolo players to be placed throughout Libbey Park.