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Author:

Adams, John Luther, 1953- author.

Title:

Silences so deep : music, solitude, Alaska / John Luther Adams.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Adams, John Luther,--1953-
Composers--Alaska--Biography.
Alaska--Description and travel.
Wright, Gordon,--1934-2007.
Haines, John,--1924-2011.
Autobiographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Prologue : music in the Anthropocene -- Between solitude and politics -- My own private Walden -- The end of winter -- Out of the woods -- They were my people : Gordon Brooks Wright ; John Meade Haines ; "I do not expect to see their kind again" -- Leaving Alaska -- Walking home again -- Afterword : benediction.

Summary:

"A memoir by composer John Luther Adams with an emphasis on the decades he spent living in Alaska"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374264627
9780374264628

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136965639

LCCN:

2020012294

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)