Min Kwon

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