JANUARY 29 @ 2:00 PM

 LECTURE AND CONCERT DEDICATED TO THE MUSIC OF CARLOS CHAVEZ

This special presentation, co-organized with the Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music of Catholic University, will include a lecture and concert in honor of Dr. Robert L. Parker, a distinguished scholar of Mexican music. The afternoon will begin with a lecture entitled "Carlos Chávez and Modernism" delivered by musicologist Dr. Christina Taylor Gibson, followed by a concert featuring music by Carlos Chávez -including his early piano pieces, Madrigal for cello and piano, Soli No. 1 and the String Quartet No. 3 (Mov. I)- and selected songs by Silvestre Revueltas.

The program will feature music school faculty members José Ramos Santana (pianist) and Michael Mermagen (cellist), Nicolas Catravas (piano); alumna Rachel Barham (soprano); and current students Anamer Castrello (mezzo soprano), Flor Maryory Serrano Prada and Nicholas Perry (violinists), Hsiao-Chun Lin (viola), and Fanny Nemeth (cellist).

Christina Taylor Gibson (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park; B.A., The College of William and Mary) serves as a clinical visiting professor in the musicology program and teaches both graduate and undergraduate musicology courses. She has also taught at Towson University, The College of William and Mary, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her specialty is twentieth-century music of the Americas, particularly musical exchange between the U.S. and Mexico during the first half of the century, and she has presented her work at local, national, and international scholarly meetings.

The concert will take place:

Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW | Washington, D.C., 20009

ADMISSION IS FREE. SEATING IS LIMITED.
RSVP RECOMMENDED:
 RSVP@instituteofmexicodc.org

DOOR OPENS AT 1:30 PM | NO LATE ADMITTANCE

This event has been co-organized with: