GLORIA CHENG: Looking Above

Gloria Cheng presents “Looking Above,” with music by two recently departed local friends William Kraft and Mike Lang, the concert premiere of film composer Michael Giacchino’s Sonata in Darkness, performed by Gloria on the blockbuster movie The Batman, an unpublished score by Pierre Boulez written specially for Gloria’s wedding, jazz-suffused works by James Newton and Nicolai Kapustin, a stirring paean to planet Earth by Illinois-based Stephen Andrew Taylor, and two Valsa Choro (“crying waltzes”) by Brazilian composer Adelaide Pereira da Silva.

Michael Giacchino, Sonata In Darkness
Adelaide Pereira da Silva, Valsa Choro No. 1-2
Mike Lang, “Kreislerianic Variations” on a Harmonic Palette of Robert Schumann
William Kraft, Translucences
James Newton, Looking Above, The Faith of Joseph
Pierre Boulez, courtes dérives à partir d’Éclat
Stephen Andrew Taylor, movements from Seven Memorials
Nicolai Kapustin, Sunrise

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