Week of November 12, 2021

This Pick of the Week features the 2021 virtual performance of Hub New Music.

Michael Avitabile, flutes. | Nicholas Brown, clarinets
Alyssa Wang, violin. | Jesse Christeson, cello

Marco Pavé, spoken word | Jared Bailey, trumpet
Carlos Simon, piano | Ruoting Li, piano

The versatile musicians of Hub New Music will offer an exciting range of new and recent music, presented in two videos available on the same night! Steven Mackey’s violin sonata, a classic McKim Fund commission from the Library’s archives, will be performed alongside a signature work by Takuma Itoh for Hub’s unusual combination of flute, clarinet, violin and cello. The centerpiece of the concert will be the virtual world premiere of Carlos Simon’s new work Requiem for the Enslaved, a work that grapples with the legacy of slavery at Georgetown University (where Simon is an Assistant Professor) and honors the lives and descendants of slaves sold to raise money for the construction of the university.

Pick of the Week-November 12, 2021

Hub New Music (event date: November 5, 2021)

Program:

STEVEN MACKEY

Sonata for Violin and Piano

TAKUMA ITOH

Wavelengths

CARLOS SIMON

Requiem for the Enslaved, Virtual World Premiere

Digital Collections and Resources at the Library of Congress

Concert Program

Looking for additional events?
You can check out last season’s Season-At-A-Glance here for access to existing content. You can also check out these special hubs that offer additional exciting material for you to view and read:

Throwback Thursdays (Concert Series Hub Page)
Concerts from the Library of Congress introduces #Throwback Thursday as together we revive, experience and discuss past performances in the Coolidge Auditorium.
(Re)Hearing Beethoven Festival (Concert Series Hub Page)
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Concerts from the Library of Congress has developed a series of ear-opening encounters with all nine symphonies, presented in solo, duo and chamber versions.
The Boccaccio Project (Concert Series Hub Page)
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.

Concerts from the Library of Congress: Pick of the Week