Olson/De Cari Duo on Song and Science

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein

The Olson/De Cari Duo is actively creating new music for voice and guitar through their Science/Music Commissioning Project, which seeks to illuminate the human side of science through song and celebrate the insights of a science-informed worldview. This concert is a CD release concert of the three song cycles commissioned by the Duo.

Science/Music Commissioning Project

The Project’s first song cycle, Abyss of the Stars: A Mass for Voice and Guitar, was written by composer Terry Champlin. The second piece in the science/music project, Scientiphilicity, was written by harpsichordist, organist and composer Thomas Donahue. And the Project’s third set of songs was composed by Frank Wallace. The six-movement song cycle, entitled Men, Women and Molecules, sets poems by Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist at Cornell University. The poems explore life, love, and human relationships with insight and humor, from the unique perspective of a scientist.

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