NOONTIME CONCERTS, which provides FREE live musical performances at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral (660 California St., San Francisco) on Tuesdays at lunchtime (12:30 pm) presents Mira T. Sundara Rajan, Piano
Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke, Opus 118
Alexander N. Scriabin: Selected Preludes, Op. 11
Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor (Sonata-Fantasy), Andante
Mira T. Sundara Rajan is an Indo-Canadian pianist who has trained with leading musicians and teachers. Mira’s pursuit of music is informed by the Indian aesthetic concept of “rasa”: the quest for the “essence, juice, taste, water, blood, elixir, beauty, [or] sentiment” of musical experience. Her ongoing “Scriabin Project” is dedicated to the works of Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915), the cosmopolitan Russian composer whose unique compositions from the early twentieth century were informed by his knowledge of Indian mysticism.