John Luther Adams returns with a Pulitzer Prize for his most recent composition: Become Ocean. The music gives the impression of immersion, an oceanic dimension, where we, humans, come from the ocean and return to the ocean. Human bodies are made mostly of water. Life on earth first emerged from the seas. With the melting of polar ice caps and rising sea levels, we may very well become ocean in no time... Become Ocean is a piece about something larger than us.

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