Balancing Darkness and Light refers to artists' balance of darkness and light through sound and color as well as the struggle of balancing the two in human nature, through emotion, thought, and action. An album of contrasting colors, darkness and light is heard in works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Scarlatti, Gershwin, and Fazil Say. I included Fazil Say's innovative compositional style of Gershwin's Summertime from his opera Porgy and Bess, a jazz-inspired and timeless lullaby, as it is a story and feeling of my home, Charleston, South Carolina. “Summertime” has become one of the most beloved arias all over the world, sung and performed in many variations and orchestrations. I hope it brings you to place of peace and where “the livin’ is easy.”