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70 Birthday Songs to America From Pianist Min Kwon

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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.

Here are links to items mentioned in the podcast.

Here Be Monsters 2026

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Hundreds of people are expected to  voluntarily step outside of their musical genre mode this weekend and hear something new, and different and maybe even odd.

It’s time for the annual HERE BE MONSTERS, Austin’s Indie-Classical music festival. 

Co-director Michael Zapruder of Tetractys says this is a growing movement within the classical or near classical genre of new music.

Here are links to some of the stories mentioned in the Classical Music In Colors podcast. 

The Black Declaration of Independence

The Het Concertgebouw’s Festival Mind the Gap!

The Chicago Sinfonietta

Nina Simone and Samuel Waymon Music Scholarship Fund

The Merry Music Month of May

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Amid the graduations, weddings, and other joyous events, celebrate with music of all genres this month. There’s the Big Sing from Conspirare, the ERA Project from LOLA, the Here Be Monsters one day new music festival and a free stream of the Dallas Opera’s 2022/23 season.  Have fun and enjoy.