A Series of Musical Responses to the COVID-19
Pandemic
In the mid-14th century Giovanni Boccaccio
(1313-1375) wrote the Decameron,
a collection of 100 stories shared between a group of 10
acquaintances
who had removed themselves from society during the darkest
period of a plague. This early artistic response to an
outbreak provided context and a means of expression, and the
parallels to the quarantine and social distancing phenomena
we have been experiencing worldwide in these difficult past
few months resonate with us.
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we
draw on Boccaccio’s example to offer some musical responses.
We have asked 10 pairs of composers and performers to write
and perform brief solo works to be premiered online over the
course of
10 weekdays in June.
We are pleased to announce the schedule below:
Monday, June 15, 2020, 8pm
Jeremy Jordan (piano) and Damien Sneed
(composer)
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 8pm
Andrew Nogal (oboe) of the Grossman Ensemble
and Richard Drehoff, Jr. (composer)
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 8pm
Kathryn Bates (cello) of the Del Sol String
Quartet and Miya Masaoka (composer)
Thursday, June 18, 2020, 8pm
Jenny Lin (piano) and Cliff Eidelman
(composer)
Friday, June 19, 2020, 8pm
Erin Lesser (flute) of the Wet Ink Ensemble
and Erin Rogers (composer)
Monday, June 22, 2020, 8pm
Charlton Lee (viola) of the Del Sol String
Quartet and Luciano Chessa (composer)
Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 8pm
Daniel Pesca (piano) of the Grossman Ensemble
and Aaron Travers (composer)
Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 8pm
Mariel Roberts (cello) of the Wet Ink
Ensemble and Ashkan Behzadi (composer)
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 8pm
Jannina Norpoth (violin) of PUBLIQuartet and
Niloufar Nourbakhsh (composer)
Friday, June 26, 2020, 8pm
Nathalie Joachim (flute) and Allison Loggins-Hull
(composer), both of Flutronix
How to watch
Starting at 8pm on the scheduled premiere
date,
Concerts website: loc.gov/concerts/boccaccio-project
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