Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska

John Luther Adams
Adult Nonfiction - 780.92 Adams Ada

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer writes about creating music in the four decades he lived in Alaska. Recommended soundtrack: the author’s piece The Far Country, available on Freegal.


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