Over 70 Birthday Songs to America From Pianist Min Kwon

There aren’t many musicians, classical or otherwise who aren’t presenting their own versions of a birthday song for America’s 250th.  On this episode, we hear from Min Kwon, a pianist with a little activist nature on the side. Back in 2021 she started a project called America/Beautiful.  Since then she’s commissioned over 70 composers to come up with their musical versions of what’s beautiful about America at this time using the song America the Beautiful as source material.  Plus it was important to her because she has two daughters, with birthdays on Presidents’ Day and the Fourth of July.