Dear Atmosphere,
Here is a thing, a piece, that I have been looking for since 2008. I lost it, see, on a little slip of paper. Back then I tuned into a terrific classical music show called The Aeolian Impromptu. I adored this program; I miss it still. I used to build my week around its airtime. It was a fascinating and compelling show, with music one could paint to. I would tape it, and play the tapes over and over.
Still, time moves on, doesn't it? I thought, ten years ago, that the DJ had said this John Adams piece was called The Great Divide. Just a few weeks ago, looking again, I finally found it, and my error: the missing word "on."
I wonder if maybe you too have been looking for this music? It's so great to find it again after so much time has passed. It's filled with the kinds of things I love in music: crashing waves of chords, layers of atmospheric and spacious sounds, wordless and babbling angelic choirs, and crescendos of overlapping rhythms that head off into the sunset on a long journey.
