As part of the 2022 MusicIC festival, professor Ed Folsom led a lecture and discussion focusing on Walt Whitman’s poem Lilacs and why musicians continue to set his poetry to music. MusicIC continues Friday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church (320 E College St, Iowa City), with a concert featuring George Walker’s Lilacs for Soprano […]
The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s MusicIC festival has partnered with Riverside Theatre to create “The Kreutzer Sonata: A Play in Five Tiny Movements,” by award-winning playwright Jennifer Fawcett. Click here to listen to the performance. Originally commissioned and presented by MusicIC in 2014, “The Kreutzer Sonata” is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 […]
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Comments Off on The Kreutzer Sonata: A New Radio Play Airing On IPR ClassicalWhat is the music of jealousy? Of obsession? Of desire? Award-winning playwright Jennifer Fawcett (Apples in Winter, Birth Witches) returns to Riverside with an adaptation that weaves together Leo Tolstoy’s haunting novella with the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Leoš Janáček. Recorded by four-time Grammy Award winning producer and recording engineer Jesse Lewis. An […]
On Friday, April 30, Iowa City West High junior Shreya Khullar will be inaugurated in Des Moines as Iowa’s first Student Poet Ambassador. “The Iowa Student Poet Ambassador is an exciting new program that recognizes an outstanding, young writer and celebrates poetry and the literary arts in Iowa,” said Jan Warren, Assistant Director for Student […]
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on Iowa City West High School Student Selected to Serve as Ambassador for Outstanding PoetryBy Brooke Sarrazin, Marketing Assistant Last month our organization and 14 other sibling Cities of Literature took part in our second annual “17 Books for the 17 SDGs” social media campaign. From December 7-23 each city posted a book with ties to their city that corresponded with one of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development […]
