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Min Kwon
America/Beautiful
Min Kwon, piano
To mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, acclaimed pianist Min Kwon presents selections from America/Beautiful — an ambitious and deeply moving project that reimagines one of the nation’s most iconic melodies. Kwon commissioned 76 leading American composers, representing a broad spectrum of backgrounds and styles, to each write a variation on America the Beautiful. The result is a deeply moving musical tapestry — a sonic portrait of the nation in all its complexity. Heard as a whole, the collection resists a single narrative, instead offering diverse perspectives that question and reimagine the American experiment, bound together by the credo of E pluribus unum (out of many, one). As Kwon observes, “In spite of all the difficulties we face, there is still profound beauty, humanity and possibility in this country.”
