Recital: Dimitri Murrath, Viola

A recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Dimitri Murrath is a first-prize winner at the Primrose International Viola Competition. He is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Mendelssohn, Takacs and Juilliard String Quartets among others.

The performance is made possible by The Tretter Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Violin.

The Versatile Viola: Gritty, Modern and Mellow

Paired with oboe, percussion, electronics and piano, the viola moves from supporting voice to virtuoso soloist in a program that includes two world premieres and works by Berio and Brahms. 

PROGRAM:

DCX Benefit Showcase

Join us for an afternoon of dance from around the country, featuring students of the Delta Chi Xi Honorary Dance Fraternity. The showcase concludes their annual conference, this year held at the University of Maryland. Scholarships will be awarded and all proceeds will go to DCX and its scholarship fund. Local guest artists and dance companies will also be featured.

To learn more about the Delta Chi Xi Honorary Dance Fraternity and their conference at the University of Maryland, please visit their website: http://www.deltachixi.org/

Showing of Jim Henson's television experiment "Youth '68" and discussion: Everything's changing... or maybe it isn't!

Presented in conjunction with The Jim Henson Legacy, this experiment in television produced and directed by Henson precedes the work that more commonly defines his legacy. Only aired once, and only screened once by The Jim Henson Legacy, this film was originally described as an “exciting mixed media portrait” of the youth and their culture in 1968. Youth ’68 is a collage of interviews, literary quotations, and contemporaneous popular music and modern dance.

Creative Dialogue: LibraryTalk - Flash In Time: Discussing D.C. Punk Fanzines

Flash In Time: Discussing D.C. Punk Fanzines brings together participants in the underground fanzine culture that has been an important part of Washington, D.C.’s punk scene since the 1970s. Panelists include fanzine creators from throughout the timeline of D.C. punk zines: Scott Crawford ( Metrozine fanzine, 1980s), Patrick Foster ( Sweet Portable You fanzine,1980s-2000s), Amanda Huron (Brickthrower fanzine,1990s) and Farrah Skeiky (Strawberry Dreams fanzine, 2010s).

Left Bank Quartet: Iconoclasts: Flouting Conventions

This program features three of history’s great musical minds whose imagination transformed Western music. A performance of Stravinsky’s string quartet oeuvre, which was composed after the riotous fallout from his Rite of Spring, begs the question: is this modernist only just a Neo-Classicist? Mozart, while respecting his rich Classical traditions, mightily expands the scope of his musical statements beyond the four basic string quartet voices in his Viola Quintet in C Major.

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