Min Kwon
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Pianist Min Kwon presents a selection of pieces from her America/Beautiful project that commissioned 70 American composers to create a variation on the patriotic hymn, “America the Beautiful.” Out of this, Kwon paints a sonic and visual picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately looks for the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one).
PROGRAM
VIJAY IYER: Crown Thy Good
SAMUEL ADLER: Celebration of Our Beautiful Nation
HUANG RUO: Meditation on America
NICO MUHLY: Refine
GYAN RILEY: Endure
TERRY RILEY: Crown of Brotherhood
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS: Fusion
LIBBY LARSEN: Amber
JAKE HEGGIE: Undiscovered
JOHN HARBISON: Getting the Upper Hand on America
GEORGE LEWIS: America, the changing same
JED DISTLER: Ameritango
SEBASTIAN CURRIER: 23 Variations on America
AVNER DORMAN: American Toccata
DAVE RAGLAND: A Most Glorious Grace
VICTORIA BOND: Sea to Shining Sea
$10.00 - $75.00
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