True Life: A Celebration of Poet Adam Zagajewski: Streaming: 6th to 20th March. Pre-register at the below URL and receive the link to watch at Online Event, Houston on Monday 20th March 2023

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True Life: A Celebration of Poet Adam Zagajewski

Streaming: 6th to 20th March. Pre-register at the below URL and receive the link to watch

Add to my Calendar 20-03-2023 17:00 20-03-2023 19:00 36 True Life: A Celebration of Poet Adam Zagajewski SPECIAL EVENT: Music and Poetry | Joint presentation of DACAMERA and InprintTRUE LIFE: A CELEBRATION OF POET ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Sarah Rothenberg, piano; Sonia Wieder-Atherton, celloSpecial guest: Edward Hirsch, poet   DACAMERA and Inprint join forces in this heartfelt celebration of the life and work of Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), prize-winning writer of international renown. Through his insightful and quietly radiant poems, Zagajewski acquired loyal readers around the world; and as a member of the UH Creative Writing Program faculty, journeying to Houston from Paris and later Krakow every spring for 18 years, he leaves a vibrant legacy of friends, students, and colleagues across the U.S. Pianist Sarah Rothenberg and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton interweave the music that inspired many of Zagajewski's poems with readings of his luminous poetry. Readers will include celebrated poet and author Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation; Rich Levy, executive director of Inprint; and community leader and friend, Lillie Robertson. The publication in 2023 of Zagajewski's last collection, True Life, offers us the occasion to discover new poems from this "indispensable" poet whose work celebrates "those rare moments when we catch a glimpse of the world from which all labels have been unpeeled…" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). Streaming starts Monday, March 6. Pre-register at the following url and receive the link to watch on March 6 through March 20: https://my.dacamera.com/3700/   Online Event, Houston DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Online Event

Houston
Texas
77002
United States

Monday 20th March 2023
5:00 PM

Programme

Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.5: Adagietto
Dmitry Shostakovich – Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op.87 no.4
Franz Schubert – 6 Moments Musicaux, D.780: Andantino
Frédéric Chopin – Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 no.4
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite no.1 in G major, BWV 1007: Allemande
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite no.1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude

Performers

Sarah Rothenberg – Piano
Sonia Wieder-Atherton – Cello
Edward Hirsch – Poet

Programme Note

SPECIAL EVENT: Music and Poetry | Joint presentation of DACAMERA and Inprint
TRUE LIFE: A CELEBRATION OF POET ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Sarah Rothenberg, piano; Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello
Special guest: Edward Hirsch, poet

DACAMERA and Inprint join forces in this heartfelt celebration of the life and work of Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), prize-winning writer of international renown. Through his insightful and quietly radiant poems, Zagajewski acquired loyal readers around the world; and as a member of the UH Creative Writing Program faculty, journeying to Houston from Paris and later Krakow every spring for 18 years, he leaves a vibrant legacy of friends, students, and colleagues across the U.S.

Pianist Sarah Rothenberg and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton interweave the music that inspired many of Zagajewski's poems with readings of his luminous poetry. Readers will include celebrated poet and author Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation; Rich Levy, executive director of Inprint; and community leader and friend, Lillie Robertson. The publication in 2023 of Zagajewski's last collection, True Life, offers us the occasion to discover new poems from this "indispensable" poet whose work celebrates "those rare moments when we catch a glimpse of the world from which all labels have been unpeeled…" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books).

Streaming starts Monday, March 6. Pre-register at the following url and receive the link to watch on March 6 through March 20: https://my.dacamera.com/3700/

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