HOME(land)

A program that juxtaposes poetry and music by Eastern and Western creators around the interconnected motifs of home/homeland, childhood and dreams. For you, is the notion of “home” an internal state-of-being, a physical place, a geo-political space? 

REPERTOIRE: Berg, Brahms, John Cage, Dvorak, Chen Yi, Charles Ives, Huang Ruo, Fang Man, Mussorgsky, Zubaida Azezi/Edo Frenkel and Alex Ho.

COMMISSIONS: Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo (b.1977), British-Chinese composer Alex Ho (b.1990), Zubaida Azezi (b.1990)/Edo Frenkel (b.1988), Chinese-American composer Chen Yi (b.1953).

Fleur Barron, mezzo soprano

Julius Drake, piano

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