Aspen Music Festival: Recital: America/Beautiful with Min Kwon, piano

"America/Beautiful is a project by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on 'America the Beautiful.' Kwon's hope is to paint a sonic picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately try to find the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one)."

Composers featured include Samuel Adler, Victoria Bond, Sebastian Currier, Richard Danielpour, Avner Dorman, Alan Fletcher (World Premiere), John Harbison, Stephen Hartke, Vijay Iyer, Nico Muhly, Sulamit Ran, Huang Ruo, Augusta Read Thomas (World Premiere), and Trevor Weston.