We have so much to celebrate this season - The BI Database reaching its one-year anniversary, Women’s History Month, Our 6th-annual WoCo fest coming up in April, but most of all the 40th Birthday of our Co-Founder, Artistic and Executive Director, Dr. Laura Colgate.
This concert, performed by our two co-founders, will be a festive occasion to celebrate all that BI has done so far and look forward to all of the exciting things to come. The program will include works for violin and organ by Alexandra Gardner, Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Florence Price, Isabella Leonarda, and more! We will also be premiering a new piece by Julie Zhu, commissioned by the BI family in honor of Laura’s 40th.
Wine and cheese reception to follow.
Suggested Donation: $40
March 20, 2024, 7:30pm
Location: Christ Lutheran Church, 5101 16th St. NW, DC
PROGRAM
Prelude (1936)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Cantique
N. Boulanger
Capriccio
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
Menuet en Sol Mineur
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Sonata op.16 n.12 in d minor
Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Sanctuary of Joy
I. Yoga Flow
II. Bike Ride
III. Paris Market
IV. Campfire / Stars
Alexandra Gardner
Adoration
Florence Price (1887-1953)
the margin declares (World Premiere)
Julie Zhu
Nocturne
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Dr. Laura Colgate, violin
Dr. Joy-Leilani Garbutt, organ
Dr. Julie Zhu, registrant
Program note for the margin declares
…
we know art is fundamental to the [New State] as is evidenced
in village scenes, majestic ancient views,
masses and masses of [generic human figures] marching in columns,
swords coded as plowshares, image as spectacle
we know [name of city], [adjective], [name of major composer]
to recode [reduce] it: Linz, ambiguous, Wagner
we know [name of major historical figure] calls, authentically,
for a more total, more radical war than we can even
dream in the language of the avant-garde
…
the question here is the same as that of a relationship
where does art define our vocabulary?
the margin declares
[it is impossible to speak about something
it is only possible to speak beside it
...
--Juliana Spahr, Responding from Response