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As Grammy-winning composer John Luther Adams puts it, his latest work An Atlas of Deep Time “...is grounded in my desire, amid the turbulence of human affairs, to hear the older, deeper resonances of the earth.” Commissioned and recorded with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the baton of music director Delta David Gier, the piece taps into an ancient resonance that seems to hover imposingly, but benevolently, over our own existence — itself a blip in geological time.

“You can sit for a long time with the history of man like a stone in your hand,” said the late author Barry Lopez, a lifelong friend to Adams. These words serve as the written invocation to a work that beautifully captures the sense of majesty, mystery and vulnerability that we, and the natural world, hold within us.

Writing for the New Yorker, journalist Alex Ross described the 2022 world premiere of An Atlas of Deep Time as “a craggier, denser, more unsettling score” than Become Ocean, the Pulitzer-winning work for which Adams is most renowned. Even so, in the audacious hands of Gier and the SDSO, the “sounding immensity” of the performance itself “afforded the uncanny pleasure of being dissolved into something complete and great.”

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released October 18, 2024

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Commissioned by and dedicated to
the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra for its Centennial Anniversary
World Premiere: Sioux Falls, SD (April 30, 2022)

Produced by Nathaniel Reichman and John Luther Adams
Recorded by Mark Donahue at Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Washington Pavilion Mixing and immersive mastering: Nathaniel Reichman

Percussion and piano recorded by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
Doug Perkins and Ian Antonio, Co-Directors
Recorded by Bill Maylone at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI on August 3, 2022
Produced and edited by Doug Perkins

Cover photography: Tapestry Wall, Colorado River, Lake Powell, Utah by Peter Goin (digital files, 2013, printed 2022)

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra thanks First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard for their support in making this recording possible.

An Atlas of Deep Time is published by Taiga Press (BMI) and distributed by The Wise Music Group.

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In works such 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 such as 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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