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Pianist Yael Weiss to Perform at Adelphi in Livestream Concert

Garden City, NY (10/29/2020) — Award-winning pianist Yael Weiss will bring her live concert series to the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center on Thursday, November 5. Weiss's performance of her show "32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World" will be streamed live from the Westermann Stage at Adelphi's Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.

"32 Bright Clouds" is a global music-commissioning, performing and recording project curated by Weiss. The project commissions a diverse group of composers from countries of conflict and unrest around the world, with all new works unified by a single "Peace motif" from Beethoven, where he added the inscription "A Call for Inward and Outward Peace" above the notes.

A captivating presence on the concert scene and an award-winning Israeli-American pianist, Weiss has been hailed by many of today's greatest musicians and critics for visionary interpretations of surpassing depth, immediacy and communicative power. Following a recent recital, the Washington Post described her as "a pianist who delves deeply and tellingly into that cloudy area where fantasy morphs into improvisation, inventiveness being common to both."

Each new composition is connected to one of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. The show aims to harness music's great power for unity and peace. The program will include:

Beethoven: Sonata No.7 in D Major, Op. 10 no. 3

I: Presto

Sidney Marquez Boquiren (Philippines, b. 1970): Unheard Voices (2018)

Dedicated to the victims of extrajudicial killings, whose voices have been unheard. Boquiren is also an associate professor and music department chair at Adelphi.

Ne Myo Aung (Myanmar, b. 1983): Moha (2020) World Premiere

May all people learn to overcome "Moha" (delusion in mind and soul) and work together to pursue our collective wisdom and wellbeing.

Bongani Ndodana-Breen (South Africa, b. 1975): Isiko: An African Ritual for Ancestral Intercession (2019)

In response to the Sonata No. 29. Dedicated to Uyinene Mrwetyana and other victims of femicide in South Africa.

Adina Izarra (Venezuela, b. 1959): Arietta for the 150 (2018)

Dedicated to the 150 young people whose lives were taken during the 2017 Peace demonstrations in Venezuela.

Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in c minor, Op. 111

I Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato

II Arietta: Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

To view the performance livestream,tickets, $5 each, are required. To register and purchase tickets, visit adelphi.edu/events/pianist-yael-weiss/

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