Events

America/Beautiful Marathon with students and faculty of Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

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In honor of the United States 250th Anniversary, this special program brings together piano music, spoken word, and visual art in a reflection on America’s past, present, and promise.

Min Kwon, piano
with pianists from Rutgers University

Text readings curated by Christie Whitman
featuring members of the church community

Photography exhibition by Park Joon

Free and open to the public.

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).

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Composer Robert Sirota hosts the sixth annual season of his series Muzzy Ridge Concerts, in his studio in Searsmont, Maine. Clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson and pianist Min Kwon perform works of Gershwin/Mangani, Debussy, Viet Cuong, Brahms, and selections from America/Beautiful commissioning project.

Mozart's Magic Flute (arrangement by Zemlinsky)
Complete, piano four-hand with Robert Lehrbaumer

in collaboration with Altenburg Music Akademie.