Many classical music groups have released new music or albums about the 250th birthday of America. Some are straightforward, others take a diverse view, like the Apollo Chamber Players.
Founder and Director Matthew Detrick says the album, We The People, features music from composers with disparate American experiences.
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There aren’t many musicians, classical or otherwise who aren’t presenting their own versions of a birthday song for America’s 250th.
On this episode, we hear from Min Kwon, a pianist with a little activist nature on the side.
Back in 2021 she started a project called America/Beautiful. Since then she’s commissioned over 70 composers to come up with their musical versions of what’s beautiful about America at this time using the song America the Beautiful as source material. Plus it was important to her because she has two daughters, with birthdays on Presidents’ Day and on the Fourth of July.
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