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Violinist Ray Chen is often up for new challenges. He has has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and is a pioneer in how musicians are interacting these days. On today's show, hear selections from Ray Chen's new album Solace, recorded at his home in Taiwan.
Composer Anna Clyne was asked to write something "exuberant" for a festival in London. She created an energetic fanfare...with an old English drinking song thrown in for good measure. On today's show, hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra play Anna Clyne's exuberant Masquerade.
Mahani Teave grew up on the remote island of Rapa Nui... or Easter Island. As a concert pianist, her career took her all around the world, but she always felt Rapa Nui calling her name. On today's show, learn about Mahani Teave and her mission to share music with the children of her home island.
Nelson Mandela used to talk about Ubuntu, a concept that embraces the idea of a universal bond among all of us; a sense of mutual respect and community. On today's show, hear a Minnesota Orchestra performance of a piece called "Harmonia Ubuntu", from a concert in Soweto, South Africa.
Mahani Teave grew up on the remote island of Rapa Nui... or Easter Island. As a concert pianist, her career took her all around the world, but she always felt Rapa Nui calling her name. On today's show, learn about Mahani Teave and her mission to share music with the children of her home island.
Classical pianist Mahani Teave saw a need and found a way. She grew up on Rapa Nui (sometimes called Easter Island) in the Pacific Ocean with plenty of music, but little of it classical. She talks with Performance Today host Fred Child about her recent solo album to help support the school she co-founded.
Mike Begay is an Indigenous American composer from the Dine nation. He has a new podcast profiling teenage Indigenous composers as they develop their works from page to stage. On today's show, hear music and stories from the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project.
For pianist Cecile Licad, music has always been a source of freedom. She says that the piano "is the only thing I can control in my life... It's where I feel like I'm having fun and nobody is bugging me." On today's show, Cecile Licad has some fun with music by Bach at a concert presented by the Seattle Chamber Music Society.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone in so many ways. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein could hear the change that took place in New York City last March. She said, "The sound had been turned down...and that quiet was not necessarily a peaceful quiet." On today's show, we'll share Dinnerstein's musical response to that unsettling quiet.
