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Date Added: May 11, 2008 03:00:08 PM

Fairbanks composer John Luther Adams has become the first Alaskan to be the subject of a major profile in The New Yorker, to my recollection, since John McPhee's "Coming Into the Country" series 30-some years ago. (And McPhee's sprawling documentary was not exactly a "profile.")

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