Songs of Separation

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
We hear William Grant Still's powerful setting of five related works by African American poets in "Songs of Separation." Also, the Young People's Chorus of New York City perform music by Michael Nyman, and cellist Maya Beiser takes up with percussionist Glen Velez for an inventive work that speaks to the collective unconscious, "Kinship."

Also Featured Tonight:

Chen Yi / Shuo
Gavin Bryars / "The Archangel Trip"
Richard Strauss / Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 11
Kurt Weill / Symphony No. 1
Richard Wagner / Siegfried Idyll
Dmitri Shostakovich / Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67

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