Two groundbreaking musical works interpret the play of opposites in human consciousness and culture. The spiritual dimension of both performances finds strong resonance in the venue for this event, Loyola Marymount University’s Sacred Heart Chapel.

The Wheel, an extended jazz/world music meditation for solo piano, draws upon a metaphor of expansion and contraction that alternately reaches outward to the cosmos and inward to the self. Composed and performed by Larry Karush.

Requiem Karuna Agung is an interfaith work, scored for Western chamber chorus and Balinese gamelan angklung. Combining texts from Catholic Christian and Tibetan Buddhist ritual, the work embodies a spirit of reconciliation between cultures and faith traditions in the wake of the events of 9/11 in America and 10/12 in Indonesia. Composed by Paul Humphreys; directed by Karl Snyder and Geoffrey Dent; Performed by Zephyr: -Voices Unbound, led by Stan DeWitt, Artistic Director, and LMU Gamelan -Kembang Atangi.