| Poetry
Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Kay Ryan
December 3, 2012 7:30pm
Folger Shakespeare Library
Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Kay Ryan celebrates Dickinson’s legacy. Reception to follow featuring Dickinson’s beloved black cake.
Tickets:
$15
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| PEN/Faulkner
The PEN/Malamud Award: Honoring the work of James Salter
December 7, 2012 7:30pm
Folger Shakespeare Library
The PEN/Malamud Award Reading, established by Bernard Malamud’s family, honors excellence in the art of the short story.
James Salter, this year’s recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, is a gifted short story writer who ended his career in the Air Force after publishing his popular first novel The Hunters, based on more than 100 combat missions in Korea. He has since written numerous collections, novels, and screenplays, in addition to his memoir, Burning the Days. Publishers Weekly deemed him “the author of some of the most esteemed fiction of the past three decades.”
Tickets:
$15
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| Music
FLORENCE: Christmas Music of the Trecento
December 14, 2012 8pm
December 15, 2012 5pm
December 15, 2012 8pm
December 16, 2012 5pm
December 16, 2012 2pm
December 19, 2012 7:30pm
December 20, 2012 7:30pm
December 21, 2012 8pm
December 22, 2012 2pm
December 22, 2012 5pm
December 23, 2012 2pm
Pre-concert discussion Friday at 7pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
In 14th-century Florence, lay religious fraternities began incorporating vernacular ceremonial songs known as laude into their worship. This popular form entered the homes of the city’s courtiers, learned clerics, and middle-class urbanites. Hear these stirring laude performed along with cheerful dances and polyphonic works in joyous celebration of the season. With vocal ensemble Trio Eos, multi-instrumentalist Christa Patton, and period strings and winds.
Tickets:
$50
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