Become Ocean, John Luther Adams's latest act of sonic sorcery, had its premiere at the Seattle Symphony on Thursday night. Sadly, the composer was unable to attend, for medical reasons. Gavin Borchert had an advance notice in the Seattle Weekly; there are reviews from Melinda Bargreen and also from The Lutosławskian, a precocious teen-aged Seattle commentator. I'll have a review in The New Yorker a week from Monday, alongside a notice of Mark Adamo's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, at the San Francisco Opera.
