Join Spectra for a celestial evening of vocal and piano music inspired by the night sky, astrology, and the mystery of creation. A collection of four songs by Tania León, Alma Mahler, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Dora Pejaçević outlines different experiences of wonder under the night sky. George Crumb’s “Makrokosmos Volume II” extends piano technique beyond the keys in a mythic exploration of the twelve zodiac signs. Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 10 is a “sonata of insects” that envisions the solar origin of these tiny creatures in a maze of trills and tremolos. Finally, William Bolcom’s song cycle “I Will Breathe A Mountain” creates a galaxy of poetic forms, featuring eleven evocative sonic planets that spring from poems by eleven American women.

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