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The Muse That Screams: Our next Oliomuse at the Strand
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The Muse That Screams: Our next Oliomuse at the Strand

Union Square

Fri, March 23, 2018 7:00 PM, EDT
(Ticket sales closed Mar 23, 11:00 AM EDT)
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    • Capacity
    23 of 200 tickets still available
    Drinking policy
    Don't bring your own drinks
    Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
    Age limit
    All guests must be 21
    Toilet with a slash through it
    No bathroom at this event
    Wheelchair access
    Wheelchair Accessible

    This is a Groupmuse Massivemuse

    Epic performances in unexpected spaces.

    Host

    Groupmuse Superhost

    On March 23rd at 7pm, we'll once again gather in the legendary Strand's beautiful Rare Book Room for our third ever Oliomuse. An Oliomuse is when we Massivemuse with ThinkOlio - an organization that's doing for professors what Groupmuse is doing for classical musicians. They bring a professor, we bring the band, and we all share an evening of music, filled out with a disquisition on the cultural, historical, and musical context from which the masterpiece emerged.

    And this one is gonna be a real scream. It'll be an in-depth exploration of Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th String Quartet, arguably the most celebrated string quartet of the last century. Written in a frenzy of terror and at the peak of Stalin's totalitarian state, Shosti 8, a maniacal kaleidoscope of beauty and horror, is dedicated to the victims of war and fascism and speaks to themes that are unfortunately as relevant as they ever were.

    We'll start with a performance of the piece, which is about 23 minutes long, brought to us by a Juilliard string quartet. Then, returning professor Whitney George will probe deep, daylighting the work's darkest recesses. We'll finish the evening with another full performance of the work, newly furnished with a more profound understand of what the piece stands for and where it comes from, so that it speaks more fully than ever before. Like all of the best art, the string quartet is of such complexity and gravity that it only gets better with more.

    It'll be an evening of unmatched power and you've got to be there. SixPoint is sponsoring the evening, so we'll free beer to keep us warm and jolly in the face of such a titanic emotion-scape.

    Tickets are $25 (and $20 for supermusers) and Oliomuses always sell out, so get on that!

    What's the music?

    Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim (she/her) Violin
    Yu Yu Liu Cello
    Christine Wu Violin/Viola
    Benjamin Zannoni Viola

    Location

    828 Broadway, NY, New York 10003, USA
    Apt: The Rare Book Room

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