Composer John Luther Adams wrote his memoir, Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska, based on the decades he spent living and working in the Arctic. Pete Woodhead/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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The rapper Goldlink. His new album, Diaspora, is on our shortlist for the best new releases of the week. Joyce Ng/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
One of the many landscapes that inspired John Luther Adams' Become Desert. Courtesy of John Luther Adams hide caption
The new album from the Philadelphia-based chamber choir The Crossing features music by John Luther Adams. Courtesy of Cantaloupe Music hide caption
Voices Rise In John Luther Adams' 'The White Wind'
John Luther Adams' new album, The Wind in High Places, evokes austere landscapes and mysterious light. Kris Serafin hide caption
Sky With Four Suns
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean by John Luther Adams is one of NPR Classical's favorite albums of 2014. Cantaloupe hide caption
John Luther Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning piece is called Become Ocean; the recording of the work comes out Sept. 30. Donald Lee/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Review: John Luther Adams, 'Become Ocean'
Composer John Luther Adams accepts enthusiastic applause from the Carnegie Hall audience after the New York premiere of his 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, Become Ocean, performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Melanie Burford/for NPR Music hide caption
Seattle Symphony, New Pulitzer Winner At Carnegie Hall
Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with an homage to the sea called Become Ocean. Evan Hurd Photography hide caption
John Luther Adams: 'Become Ocean' (excerpt courtesy of the Seattle Symphony)
Classical albums we loved this year. NPR/Denise DeBelius hide caption
An incredible roster of musicians gathered at Carnegie Hall in 2009 to play Terry Riley's epic 'In C' — with the complete, but only single-page, score projected overhead. Julien Jourdes/courtesy of Carnegie Hall Archive hide caption
Hear An Excerpt From Adams' 'Inuksuit'
Brass players perform 'Swelter' during Make Music New York, June 21, 2011. Anastasia Tsioulcas//NPR hide caption