GRECCHINOIS

Art Song, Classical Music, Opera, 2023, 2025 Nicholas Phan Art Song, Classical Music, Opera, 2023, 2025 Nicholas Phan

SONG IN A FRACTURED WORLD

“…Each day, our newsfeeds are filled with stories of conflict in our increasingly polarized world. The very technology meant to bring us closer together now often seems to be driving us apart. Social media’s algorithms, rather than fostering genuine connection, feed on division, amplifying outrage, and eroding empathy. As these societal rifts widen, the Internet relentlessly delivers images and videos of violence…”

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SINGING OF ONESELF

“…Yet the dialogue surrounding the subject of identity contains many pitfalls. Paradoxically, the individual can get lost in the heated conversation that inherently arises around the topic. Oftentimes, that discourse becomes reductive…Reduced to our pronouns, our race, our political affiliation, our religion, our nationality, or whatever category becomes the focus, the individual is blended into the oblivion of a colored bar on a graph or section of a pie chart…”

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STRANGERS

CAIC’s broadcasts from the 2021 Collaborative Works Festival continue. This week’s broadcast is of the opening performance: CONCERT II: Strangers. Below is my program note.

The broadcast of Strangers runs through this Thursday evening, October 28! Please check it out below!

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SONGS OF THE NEW WORLD

Over the course of the next month, CAIC is broadcasting performances from the 2021 Collaborative Works Festival. This week’s broadcast is of the opening performance: CONCERT I: Songs of the New World. Below is my program note.

The broadcast of Songs of the New World runs through this Thursday evening, October 21! Please check it out!

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