The Circadian String Quartet’s original reimagination of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring centers Mystic Circles, an evening of wonder and sublime beauty with Russian folk songs and music by Aminikia and Vali.
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With a libretto that draws on Hegel, Nietzsche and Sun Ra, “goth-postpunk-diva” (KQED) M. Lamar’s song cycle Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of the Negro Superman synthesizes the Negro spiritual, black and doom metal, and contemporary classical opera to engage African Americans’ experiences of enslaved and liberated consciousness. Commissioned and performed with The Living Earth Show, this is the song cycle’s World Premiere.
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Jean Ahn’s Archimedes’ Principle plus works by Bartók, Dohnányi, and Suk, and Martinů.
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Sunday, September 17 at 4 pm
Pianist Thomas Schultz performs works by Franz Schubert and Hyo-shin Na.
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Works by Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Mendelssohn, Milhaud, Schoenfield, and Albéniz.
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