Contemporary Classics 02/06/2018

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The San Diego Symphony’s performance of John Luther Adams’s percussion work “Inuksuit” at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday transcended the geography of political separation. Photograph by Guillermo Arias / AFP / Getty [The New Yorker]

Dave Lake

This week on Contemporary Classics, Tuesdays at 7-9pm EST on wruu.org or 107.5 here in Savannah is Protest!! After hearing about the concert on our border with Mexico (read with wonderful article by Alex Ross in the New Yorker) feature musicians on both sides playing John Luther Adams “Inuksuit” in protest of the border wall, I decided upon a whole show on protest. So you will be hearing “Inuksuit”. Along with the whose got the bigger nuclear button, I am afraid we must again protest nuclear arsenals with John Adams “Doctor Atomic Symphony” and Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”. And I will throw in if there is time an attack on fascist dictatorial attack on the rule of law that we are seeing across the world including Venezuela, Russia and the United States with Arnold Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” who also had small hands.

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