2:30 pm today

Bookmarks with Cadence Chung

From Afternoons, 2:30 pm today

Cadence is a woman of many talents: she's a poet, composer, mezzo-soprano, piano teacher and a RNZ Concert presenter and she's only 21.

Cadence's book picks:

The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner

How to be dead in a year of Snakes by Chris Tse

Cadence's music picks:

Mon coeur souvre a ta voix (from Saint-Saens's opera Samson and Delilah) by Elina Garanca
Nausicaa by Sarah Kirkland Snider, sung by Emily D'Angelo.
Leaving the City by Joanna Newsom
Double Mother by Cadence Chung, words by Jackson McCarthy. 

Cadence Chung sits on a staircase, next to a wall with decorative wallpaper in the lower part.

Cadence Chung Photo: Ebony Lamb Photography