We are pleased to announce our first livestreamed chamber concert featuring Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pianist GLORIA CHENG. The concert will be livestreamed to YouTube Live from the Athenaeum’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Room, Monday, February 15, at 7 PM. Ticketholders will have 48 hours access to a recording.
Gloria Cheng will perform John Adams' Minimalist masterpiece Phrygian Gates, along with shorter pieces by Chinese American composers including UCSD professor and Grawemeyer Award-winner Lei Liang, and Pulitzer Prize winner Zhou Long. She will be joined by a surprise guest for a performance of Ravel's "Laideronnette, impératrice des pagode" from his Mother Goose Suite.
PROGRAM:
Lei Liang, My Windows, I, “Tian” (“heaven”) 我的窗: 天
From the collection Garlands for Steven Stucky:
Chen Yi, In Memory of Steve Stucky
Pierre Jalbert, Inscription
Mandy Fang, That Raindrops Hastened the Falling Flowers
Judith Weir, Chorale, for Steve
Phyllis Chen, Hypnos, for toy piano
Maurice Ravel, from Mother Goose Suite, "Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes"
Zhou Long, Pianobells 钢琴钟
John Adams, Phrygian Gates
Liang, My Windows, IV, “Pausing, Awaiting the Wind to Rise”
The concert will be livestreamed via Youtube Live. Ticket holders will receive a link 48 hours before the concert. The concert will be available for 48 hours to ticket holders.
Partly underwritten by Robert and Virginia Black.