This single-movement work for orchestra won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music, as well as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2015. Its premiere in Seattle in June 2013 was conducted by Ludovic Morlot and received acclaim from both classical music critics and Taylor Swift...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Become Ocean was written by John Luther Adams.
John Luther Adams released Become Ocean on Thu Jun 20 2013.
The composer placed this explanatory note in the score:
Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.
Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra