In Safe Harbor, his new composition commissioned by Resonance, Portland violinist/looper Joe Kye, who immigrated to the US with his family, blends folk music from his native Korea with American folk music and improvisation. Another world premiere, Portland composer Theresa Koon’s Mother of Exiles, adapts and reimagines Emma Lazarus’s famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

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