Public Concert: Upward Spirals
Tue, Mar 04
|Bridgewater State University
Liang, Ravaei, Ravel and Wiancko


Time & Location
Mar 04, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA 02324, USA
About the event
Presented by Bridgewater State University | details coming soon!
Upward Spirals highlights four incredible journeys of artists looking back, while charging forward — featured here in three short contemporary works alongside one well-established masterpiece. Family Photos, from young Iranian-American talent Kian Ravaei, was formed in equal parts by memories as commonplace as summer evenings at a Southern California carnival as visits to Tehran to see family; Lei Liang’s Gobi Gloria explores formative family experiences through Mongolian ‘Long Song’ tradition; while Paul Wiancko’s Lift is a joyous tapestry of the author’s musical background — weaving Classical, Jazz, Folk, and Hip Hop into a single high-energy voice. Finally, Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet stands as an impressionist triumph — full of revolutionary textures and colors, masterfully contained in older structures and influenced by his mother’s Basque heritage. ~ Leo Eguchi
PROGRAM
Family Photos | Kian Ravaei (b. 1999) ~ 11 minutes
Gobi Gloria | Lei…