Faculty member and Washington National Opera Principal Bassoonist Joseph Grimmer continues his exploration of contemporary bassoon music in this second installment of his recital series. Grimmer will be accompanied by guest artist Sophia Kim Cook on piano.
Program:
Olav Berg: Vertigo
Jean Françaix: Bassoon Concerto
William Winstead: Enigma
Pierre Max Dubois: Sonatine-Tango
Under what circumstances can a society skew their morality for comfort and personal gain? Set in the fictitious town of Güllen, experience the story of a woman’s revenge on a community that cast her out when she was pregnant and impoverished. This allegorical dark comedy features a village of citizens—set into motion as a mob of dancing birds, whose sweeping murmurations turn ferocious. The play arcs from absurdist to barbarous in order to question what happens when civil ethics, personal morality, patriarchal rule, justice and democracy go amok.
Abigail Washburn, banjo and Wu Fei, guzheng (USA, China)
Fifth House Ensemble's flutist and executive director discusses how her experiences growing up in a multicultural, multilingual family developed her skills as a cultural chameleon. Her current work leverages her capacity to create connections and common language to generate projects that engage international partners, source collaborators from wildly diverse disciplines and result in genre-defying artistic experiences.
Sarah Frisof and Rita Sloan are joined by fellow School of Music faculty Mark Hill, Gregory Miller, Robert DiLutis and Joseph Grimmer for a concert of unusual French chamber music for flute, piano and winds in various configurations. The performers will present duos, trios and a sextet from Poulenc's Paris of the 1930s to the 21st century's Techno-Parade by Guillaume Connesson.
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled, click here for more information.
Trio Solisti (USA)
Monica Bill Barnes & Company: Happy Hour
Associate professor at Stanford University, Jesse Rodin gives a lecture titled “Amen”: Theorizing an Aesthetics of Intensification in Fifteenth-Century Music. In the lecture, Rodin will explore developing more empathetic and intuitive ways of hearing and analyzing Renaissance polyphony. He suggests that fifteenth-century composers created a formal and expressive language rooted in an aesthetics of intensification and contrast.
A fun-filled comedy, featuring Beatrice and Benedick, the witty rivals whose secret love for each other is revealed when they come to the rescue of Claudio and Hero, whose wedding has been sabotaged by the nefarious Don John. Set on the picturesque island of Sicily, this travelling production will feature live musicians playing a blend of traditional Italian music as well as original numbers composed from Shakespeare’s text.
This perfect outing for families includes swash buckling sword fights, belly aching laughs and loads of fun!
Ages: All ages are welcome
