John Luther Adams: Red Arc / Blue Veil

As performed by pianist Kirsten Volness and percussionist Nick Gleason of Hotel Elefant. Filmed at Q2 Music’s ’Meet The Composer’ launch party and hosted by Q2 Music’s Nadia Sirota, the party also includes a star-studded array of dynamic, award-winning performers: flutist and International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director Claire Chase performs Balter’s Pessoa; Hotel Elefant performs Adams’s Red Arc/Blue Veil; Attacca String Quartet performs excerpts from Norman’s Peculiar Strokes; Cellist Hannah Collins performs Shaw’s in manus tuas; and Bang on a Can All-Star pianist Vicky Chow, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Todd Reynolds perform Dennehy’s Bulb. A commercial recording with “Red Arc / Blue Veil“ is available on an album of the same name on Cold Blue: Subscribe to the ’Meet the Composer’ podcast via iTunes: ?