Music IC Festival

Music IC Festival
Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023 at 7:00pm
Iowa City Public Library
123 South Linn Street
Free

Anonymous was a Woman: Centering Women’s Perspectives

MusicIC returns June 21-24, 2023, for its 13th season. Titled after the line “for most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the festival will center Women’s perspectives through conversation, pre-concert lectures, and inventive musical programming. Bringing back beloved performers as well as welcoming new faces, MusicIC is excited to have the following performers join us for the 2023 season – Tricia Park, violin; Miki-Sophia Cloud, violin; Halam Kim, viola; Laura Usiskin, cello; Lara Saldanha, piano; and Caitlin McKechney, mezzo-soprano.

Caroline Shaw and Marilynne Robinson, In Conversation

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.

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