Performed and recorded on December 6, 2020.

Tickets are $5 and up. Broadcasting begins December 20, 2020 at 3:00PM EST.

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Deborah Lifton, soprano; James Nyoraku Schefer, shakuhachi; Sami Merdinian, violin; Laura Metcalf, cello; and Kathleen Supové, piano performing Japan Songs, an eclectic song collection for soprano, shakuhachi and piano trio. This KSA commission costars six composers: Victoria Bond, Douglas J. Cuomo, James Matheson, Paul Moravec, Jay Reise and Aleksandra Vrebalov.

Join us online to celebrate the 2020 Solstice with this virtual premiere! Live chat with composers, performers and the song/poem translator - Dr. Thomas E. McAuley from the University of Sheffield, UK.

FULL PROGRAM

JAPAN SONGS – PART 1 (2020)

Autumn Mountains by Victoria Bond
Eight Thousand Spears by Paul Moravec
Not A Trace by James Matheson 

Avian Cradle (2020) by Kathleen Supové
solo piano 

Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla (arranged by Yves Dharamraj)
Violin and cello

 Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse
solo shakuhachi

 JAPAN SONGS – PART 2 (2020)
Kei’un Song -praying for love by Aleksandra Vrebalov
In the blink of an eye… by Jay Reise
Tree of Pearls by Douglas J. Cuomo