SAN DIEGO — Groundbreaking composer Lei Liang has never been to the Arctic or to its Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. But that imposing 240,000-square-mile body of water’s beneath-the-surface sounds not only inspired his provocative new work, “Six Seasons,” they are an intrinsic and very audible part of it. “We recorded amazing marine animals: bearded seals, beluga whales and bowhead whales. I call them the ‘Three B’s,’ in relation to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms!” said University of California San Diego professor Liang, the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award f…
