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SUMMARY:Caroline Shaw and Marilynne Robinson\, In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, June 21\, at 7 p.m.\, MusicIC will present a pre-recorded conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist\, Marilynne Robinson and Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award–winning composer Caroline Shaw\, moderated by MusicIC’s Founding Artist Director Tricia Park. The women will discuss Shaw’s string quartet Three Essays\, the first movement of which was written to mimic Robinson’s writing. Segments of the string quartet will be performed live\, in tandem with the conversation. Three Essays was a 2023 Grammy Award-winner\, as part of the Attacca Quartet’s album Evergreen\, which won Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance. The conversation will be free and open to the public and will be presented in Meeting Room A at the Iowa City Public Library (123 S. Linn St.).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/caroline-shaw-and-marilynne-robinson-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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SUMMARY:Centering Women’s Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Thursday’s concert\, Centering Women’s Perspectives\, will feature myriad contemporary female composers\, incorporating perspectives from a collection of Western and non-Western musical traditions. The program aims to re-examine musical and literary hierarchies by presenting string quartets of oral- based storytelling songs from Mali\, Indian Ragas\, and melodies based on Iranian poetry. Composers represented on this concert include Caroline Shaw\, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté\, Jessie Montgomery\, Aftab Darvishi\, Reena Esmail\, and MusicIC’s own Tricia Park. This concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday\, June 22\, at Trinity Episcopal Church (320 E College Street)\, and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/centering-womens-perspectives/
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 320 E. College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, United States
CATEGORIES:MusicIC Festival
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SUMMARY:Anonymous Was a Woman (ticketed event)
DESCRIPTION:A pre-concert lecture by Marian Wilson Kimber will begin at 6:30 p.m.\, followed by the concert at 7:30 p.m. \nFriday\, June 23\, will see MusicIC present Anonymous Was a Woman\, an intimate concert at 7:30 p.m. at Riverside Theatre (119 E College Street)\, drawing connections between two powerhouse women: Prominent English author and feminist icon\, Virginia Woolf\, and composer Dame Ethel Smyth – the first female composer to be granted a damehood. The program will begin with Smyth’s Violin Sonata in A minor (Op. 7)\, written in 1887. Though the classical music canon has historically relegated her to a footnote\, Smyth is enjoying some long overdue recognition\, both for her distinctive musical voice and larger than life personality. Ahead of her time\, Smyth was a suffragette and defiantly out about her sexuality and relationships with women. \nFollowing Smyth’s Sonata\, audiences will be treated to a semi-staged version of Dominick Argento’s song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf\, which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Music\, the same year in which it was premiered in Minneapolis. Smyth and Woolf would meet near the end of their lives and continue a fruitful intellectual and artistic relationship\, lasting until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. By pairing Smyth’s music and Woolf’s private words\, we can begin to allow the deeply personal etchings of these two women to fully come to the forefront\, in a way they were unable to during their lives. \nBefore the concert\, music scholar\, author\, and University of Iowa Professor Marian Wilson Kimber will give a pre-concert lecture exploring the development of works by women artists and the barriers they faced. General admission tickets to the Friday\, June 23\, concert are $20; $10 for students. They are available at the Riverside Theatre box office\, by calling (319) 259-7099\, or emailing boxoffice@riversidetheatre.org. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anonymouswasawoman/
LOCATION:Riverside Theatre – A pre-concert lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m.\, followed by the concert at 7:30 p.m.\, 119 E. College St.\, Iowa City\, 52240
CATEGORIES:MusicIC Festival
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SUMMARY:Family Concert
DESCRIPTION:To round out the season\, MusicIC will return to the Iowa City Public Library to perform its beloved family concert at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday\, June 24\, featuring a program of musical storytelling for kids of all ages\, in partnership with the Iowa City Public Library children’s department. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/family-concert/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:MusicIC Festival
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