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First Listen: John Luther Adams, 'Become Desert'

The composer's musical evocation of the desert is an expansive journey in symphonic stillness, and a sequel to his Pulitzer-winning Become Ocean.
One of the many landscapes that inspired John Luther Adams' <em>Become Desert</em>.

In 2014, composer John Luther Adams won the music Pulitzer for Become Ocean, a breathtaking orchestral portrait of undulating seas and cresting waves. He has followed with its antipode, , a symphony that shimmers in majestic stillness.

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