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In the Stacks: Songs from the Inside, with Peabody's NEXT Ensemble

  • Hopkins Boomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, DC, 20001 United States (map)

icarus Quartet joins forces with Peabody’s mixed vocal NEXT Ensemble to present Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Canti di prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment),” a three-movement work featuring texts by imprisoned writers, set to music as a protest to Mussolini’s race laws. Alongside this performance, the two ensembles will premiere a new work by Elijah Daniel Smith that reflects and connects with Dallapiccola’s original masterpiece, setting texts by Brian D. Fuller, currently incarcerated in Texas.