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A recent issue of The New Yorker features a profile of JLA by the celebrated critic, author and blogger Alex Ross.
A performance by the Radio Nederlands Filharmonish of Dark Waves drew this response:
"...the Concertgebouw was shaking on its foundation... Not many words can do justice to the massiveness and the dark threat of this work... the harmonic waves... relentless and awe-inspiring... a model of movement, space and sublimity."
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| - Jochem Valkenburg, NRC Handelsblad |
You can hear that performance of Dark Waves here.
United States Artists has produced a new video portrait of JLA.
This summer Steven Schick, Rob Esler, Lisa Tolentino, Doug Perkins and Morris Palter performed JLA's epic percussion work Strange and Sacred Noise under the midnight sun in the heart of the Alaska Range. This extraordinary event was documented for a forthcoming film by Leonard Kamerling.
The Seattle Chamber Players and the EAR Unit recently performed the first performances of The Light Within. You can hear and see part of the EAR Unit performance here.
"Inspired by James Turrell's ethereal installation art, Adams' thick and undulating wall-of-sound approach suggests a musical corollary to Turrell's sublime manipulations of time, space and color."
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| - Josef Woodard, The Los Angeles Times |
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"... the standout work of the festival ... a shimmering spectrum of massive, merging harmonies ... the textures of noise as our contemporary counterpart to the sublime."
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| - Thomas May, Seattle Weekly |
The Seattle Chamber Players will play The Light Within at the 2008 Warsaw Autumn festival, and Mobtown Modern will feature it on their new season.
More JLA on YouTube
The Farthest Place
Red Arc / Blue Veil
Drums of Winter
JLA Here on Earth
Sky With Four Suns was recently premiered by the Latvian Chamber Choir Kamer, which commissioned the piece for its World Sun Songs festival. You can hear that performance here.
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