Centennial Conversations | Maria Popova & Paola Prestini: Creativity in the Margins of Culture
Where: Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.
212-685-0008 Price: $10/$20/$30
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A conversation with Maria Popova and composer Paola Prestini, lensed through the music manuscripts of Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Composer Paola Prestini has cultivated a uniquely expansive and humanistic musical voice, through pieces that transcend genre and discipline, and projects whose global impact reverberates beyond the walls of the concert hall. Far more than just notes on a page, Prestini’s works give voice to those whom society has silenced, and offer a platform for the causes that are most vital to us all. Prestini has been named of the Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music by the Washington Post, one of the top 100 Composers in the World by National Public Radio, and one of the Top 30 Professionals of the Year by Musical America. As Co-Founder of National Sawdust, she has collaborated with luminaries like poet Robin Coste Lewis, visual artists Julie Mehretu and Nick Cave, and musical legends David Byrne, Philip Glass and Renee Fleming, and her works have been performed throughout the world with leading institutions like the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Dallas Opera, London’s Barbican Center, Mexico’s Bellas Artes, and many more.
Maria Popova thinks and writes about our search for meaning—sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. She is the creator of The Marginalian (born in 2006 under the name Brain Pickings), which is included in the Library of Congress permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials, author of Figuring, and maker of the live show The Universe in Verse—a charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry — which is now also a book.
This program takes place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the conversation begins.
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