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Sunrise is expansive, incandescent, haunting electro-acoustic music composed and performed by Jacob Cooper and Steven Bradshaw. Created during the 2020-21 pandemic, this kaleidoscopic work grows into a tsunami of sound as it casts an eye (ear) back 100 years to derive it's text from a popular song composed during the 1918 pandemic InchThe World Is Waiting for the Sunrise.Inch Jacob Cooper has been lauded as Inchrichly talentedInch (The New York Times) and a Inchmaverick electronic song composerInch (The New Yorker). His music has been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, Eighth Blackbird, and the Calder Quartet and released by Nonesuch, New Amsterdam, and other labels. The recording of his string orchestra work Stabat Mater Dolorosa, which The New York Times described as Inchexhaustingly poignant,Inch was an NPR Top Ten album in 2020. InchJacob Cooper finds grace in diaphanous slow motion.Inch (WQXR) InchConceptually intrepid... vital... Cooper has long been a fan of teasing his audience's perception of time.Inch (Pitchfork) A founding member of the Grammy-winning The Crossing vocal ensemble, Steven Bradshaw, whose voice has been described as InchLuminousInch (Broadway World) and InchExtraordinaryInch (South Florida Classical Review) has appeared as a soloist with Bang on a Can, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Roomful of Teeth, and many others groups.
