Adams, John Luther

[bluestateprommer]

Has any of JLA's music been played on Radio 3, at the Proms or on the South Bank? If it had, I thought I'd at least have heard of it.

JLA's music has featured at The Proms on a very few occasions:

(a) 2017: Proms at Wilton's Music Hall, selections from songbirdsongs
(b) 2019: Prom 66, In the Name of the Earth

From a quick websearch, R3 has featured excerprts of JLA's music a few times on The Listening Service, in addition to a 2015 interview between JLA and Tom McKinney.

I recall hearing during the pandemic a socially distanced performance of songbirdsonds, which might be my one live experience of JLA's music. While I've not heard Become Ocean live, from hearing the Seattle Symphony recording not that long ago, I can understand Mandryka's point that it would work better live in a concert hall than on a recording, as in a concert hall setting, there is the communal "zone-out" factor as the sounds literally wash all around you in three dimensions (OK, four, including time), compared to sitting at home alone.

[smittims]

Thanks, bluestateprommer,that's interesting.