To Hope

Three High Places

by John Luther Adams

  1. Above Sunset Pass

  2. The Wind at Maclaren Summit

  3. Looking Toward Hope

For John Luther Adams, music is a lifelong search for home—an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and remember our place within the larger community of life on earth.

A deep concern for the state of the earth and the future of humanity drives Adams to continue composing. As he puts it: “If we can imagine a culture and a society in which we each feel more deeply responsible for our own place in the world, then we just may be able to bring that culture and that society into being.”

Dark Clouds

by Wendy Wischer

Light illuminates the performer, bringing attention to their movements and their song. Yet the climate crisis we face darkens everything…

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“Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope. “

John Luther Adams

Performer: Hasse Borup   Visuals: Wendy Wischer