Great piece Ted. But missing from the story is that John Luther Adams had to eventually MOVE to New York and get to know all the muckety-mucks before he got that Pulitzer Prize. At some point, he decided his wilderness sojourn was done. And after a few years in the big city, he moved to the desert, to start a new nature chapter in his li…
Great piece Ted. But missing from the story is that John Luther Adams had to eventually MOVE to New York and get to know all the muckety-mucks before he got that Pulitzer Prize. At some point, he decided his wilderness sojourn was done. And after a few years in the big city, he moved to the desert, to start a new nature chapter in his life and work. But being in New York for a time was also essential to his success.
I want to counter this. John Luther Adams lived in Alaska until 2014. His Pulitzer-winning work Become Ocean made its debut in 2013. The first time Adams visited Carnegie Hall in his entire life was for a performance of that work in front of an enthusiastic capacity audience. When critic Alex Ross wrote his influential piece on JLA, several years earlier, Ross had to travel to Alaska to do it. So the facts simply don't support the view that Adams aggressively networked in New York to gain recognition.
Great piece Ted. But missing from the story is that John Luther Adams had to eventually MOVE to New York and get to know all the muckety-mucks before he got that Pulitzer Prize. At some point, he decided his wilderness sojourn was done. And after a few years in the big city, he moved to the desert, to start a new nature chapter in his life and work. But being in New York for a time was also essential to his success.
I want to counter this. John Luther Adams lived in Alaska until 2014. His Pulitzer-winning work Become Ocean made its debut in 2013. The first time Adams visited Carnegie Hall in his entire life was for a performance of that work in front of an enthusiastic capacity audience. When critic Alex Ross wrote his influential piece on JLA, several years earlier, Ross had to travel to Alaska to do it. So the facts simply don't support the view that Adams aggressively networked in New York to gain recognition.