Sunday, September 13, 2020, 3 PM EDT PIANIST GABRIELA MONTERO Live from Barcelona

Moss Arts Center HomeStage Series PIANIST GABRIELA MONTERO Live from Barcelona

Moderated by Margaret Lawrence, director of programming, Moss Arts Center

Free improvisation

Kinderszcenen (Scenes from Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Childhood) Piano Sonata, op. 31, no. 2, Ludwig van Beethoven Tempest (1770-1827)

Improvisation with the audience Program Notes KINDERSZCENEN (SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD) Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann grew up, like Bach, in northern Germany and was fully aware of its important keyboard traditions; indeed, Bach’s works were a significant source of study and inspiration for him. As a youth he was equally passionate about music and literature, and studied piano with well-known pedagogue Friedrich Wieck, even while tackling various literary projects. Schumann, however, was intensely aware of his pianistic shortcomings, only exacerbated in his early twenties by a mysterious injury to one of his hands. His compositions for piano, which show an intense preoccupation with virtuosity as well as poetry, are frequently programmatic, thus became increasingly important to him. His teacher’s daughter, the great pianist Clara Wieck, was the primary inspiration for Schumann’s piano music, and after their marriage in 1840 she became his pianistic voice and the chief promoter of his work. In her later years she would edit his piano works for the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel.

Schumann wrote an abundant amount of piano music, including large- scale forms but also many miniature pieces arranged in series or cycles and laced with all kinds of personal and literary allusions. Schumann’s delightful collection Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), op. 15, dates from February 1838, shortly after his betrothal to Clara Wieck. Schumann wrote of them to Clara, “it was like an echo of your words when you once wrote to me that I seemed to you as a child; in short, I felt just as if in child’s clothes, and then wrote the thirty funny little things out of which I selected some twelve and called them Childhood Scenes. You will be pleased with them, but must of course forget that you are a virtuoso.” A few of these pieces, such as the insouciant and wistful opening, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and People), contain Schumann’s most memorable melodies; the seventh piece, Träumerei (Reverie), came to epitomize the sentimental strain in 19th-century salon music. Some of the pieces, such as the scampering Hasche-Mann (Blind Man’s Bluff) and the awkwardly rhythmic Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Knight of the Hobbyhorse), directly evoke childhood games. Others sketch a vivid emotional moment or memory, as in the mock pomposity of Wichtige Begebenheit (Important Event) or the gently pensive Am Kamin (By the Fireside). In the final piece of the set,Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks), Schumann reveals with nostalgic eloquence that these are not after all childish pieces, but the poignant reflections of an adult, looking back with amusement and tenderness on an earlier self. Program Notes (continued)

PIANO SONATA, OP. 31, NO. 2, TEMPEST Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven’s op. 31 sonatas were composed in 1802, and unlike most of his piano sonatas, which were dedicated to noble friends and patrons, these bear no dedication. At the time of their composition Beethoven was despondent over his growing deafness and spent the summer in quiet retreat in the Viennese suburb of Heiligenstadt; his despairing mood is revealed in the so-called “Heiligenstadt Testament” that he wrote in October, bidding farewell to his brothers and declaring his readiness to die. In this sad document he confesses to feeling isolated by his deafness, saying “I must live almost alone, like one who has been banished.” But he nonetheless produced a substantial body of work that year, including not only op. 31, but the Symphony no. 2 and the op. 30 violin sonatas. Beethoven’s student at the time, Carl Czerny, wrote that his teacher felt he was on “a new path,” and believed that Beethoven was referring to these piano sonatas.

Each of the three sonatas in op. 31 possesses its own very distinctive character and personality. The first movement of the D-minor Sonata, op. 31, no. 2, amazes the listener with its seemingly erratic fluctuations; on the one hand, brief Largo and Adagio passages featuring luxuriant, harp-like arpeggiations and recitative-like declamation, and on the other stormy virtuosity in tumultuous Allegro episodes. Beethoven’s biographer Anton Schindler, who knew the composer fairly well, avowed that this sonata might be linked to Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. But though Beethoven certainly read much Shakespeare, and reportedly embedded a depiction of the tomb scene from Romeo and Juliet in one of his op. 18 string quartets, there is no way to verify this intriguing idea. Yet it is hard to escape the notion that some kind of narrative is unfolding in the slow, overtly rhetorical interpolations that punctuate the turbulent first movement. The central adagio movement is also rich in rhetorical expression, exploiting extremes of register and texture. The finale is both restless and plaintive, with relentless 16th-note motion that propels it rhythmically. Its terse, haunting melodic gestures at the opening gather momentum and soar into one of Beethoven’s characteristically heroic themes.

Kathryn L. Libin © 2020 Biography GABRIELA MONTERO

Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times that “Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power...soulful lyricism...unsentimental expressivity.”

Recipient of the prestigious 2018 Heidelberger Frühling Music Prize, Montero’s recent and forthcoming highlights include debuts with the San Francisco Symphony (Edward Gardner), New World Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Tokyo (Aziz Shokhakimov), Orquesta de Valencia (Pablo Heras-Casado), and the Bournemouth Symphony (Carlos Miguel Prieto), the latter of which featured her as artist-in-residence for the 2019-2020 season. Montero also recently performed her own Latin Concerto with the Orchestra of the Americas at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Edinburgh Festival, as well as at Carnegie Hall and the New World Center with the NYO2. Additional highlights include a European tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; a second tour with the cutting edge Scottish Ensemble, this time with Montero’s latest composition, Babel, as the centerpiece of the program; her long-awaited return to Warsaw for the Chopin in Europe Festival, marking 23 years since her prize win at the International Chopin Piano Competition; and return invitations to work with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony, Jaime Martin and the Orquestra de Cadaqués for concerts in Madrid and Barcelona, and Alexander Shelley and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada.

Celebrated for her exceptional musicality and ability to improvise, Montero has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras to date, including the Royal Liverpool, Rotterdam, Dresden, Oslo, Vienna Radio, and Netherlands Radio philharmonic orchestras; the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Australian Chamber Orchestra; the Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, Toronto, Baltimore, Vienna, City of Birmingham, Barcelona, Lucerne, and Sydney symphony orchestras; the Belgian National Orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, and the Cleveland Orchestra, orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, and Residentie Orkest.

A graduate and fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, Montero is also a frequent recitalist and chamber musician, having given concerts at such distinguished venues as the Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Biography (continued)

GABRIELA MONTERO, continued Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Cologne Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Herkulessaal, Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Lisbon Gulbenkian Museum, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Seoul’s LG Arts Centre, Hong Kong City Hall, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and at the Barbican’s Sound Unbound, Edinburgh, Salzburg, SettembreMusica in Milan and Turin, Lucerne, Ravinia, Gstaad, Saint-Denis, Violon sur le Sable, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Rheingau, Ruhr, Trondheim, Bergen, and Lugano festivals.

Montero is also an award-winning and bestselling recording artist. Her most recent album, released in autumn 2019 on the Orchid Classics label, features her own Latin Concerto and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, recorded with the Orchestra of the Americas in Frutillar, Chile. Her previous recording on Orchid Classics features Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto, no. 2 and her first orchestral composition,Ex Patria, winning Montero her first Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album (Mejor Álbum de Música Clásica). Others include Bach and Beyond, which held the top spot on the Billboard Classical Charts for several months and garnered her two Echo Klassik Awards: the 2006 Keyboard Instrumentalist of the Year and 2007 Award for Classical Music without Borders. In 2008 she also received a Grammy nomination for her album, Baroque, and in 2010 she released Solatino, a recording inspired by her Venezuelan homeland and devoted to works by Latin American composers.

Montero made her formal debut as a composer with Ex Patria, a tone poem designed to illustrate and protest Venezuela’s descent into lawlessness, corruption, and violence. The piece was premiered in 2011 by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Montero’s first full- length composition, Piano Concerto, no. 1, the Latin Concerto, was first performed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with the MDR Sinfonieorchester and Kristjan Järvi, and subsequently recorded and filmed with the Orchestra of the Americas for the ARTE Konzert channel.

Winner of the Fourth International Beethoven Award, Montero is a committed advocate for human rights, whose voice regularly reaches beyond the concert hall. She was named an Honorary Consul by Amnesty International in 2015 and recognised with Outstanding Work in the Field of Human Rights by the Human Rights Foundation for her ongoing commitment to human rights advocacy in Venezuela. She was invited to participate in the 2013 Women of the World Festival at London’s Southbank Centre, and has spoken and performed twice at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters. She was also awarded the 2012 Rockefeller Award for her contribution to the arts and was a featured performer at Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Inauguration.

Born in Venezuela, Montero started her piano studies at age four with Lyl Tiempo, making her concerto debut at age eight in her hometown of Caracas. This led to a scholarship from the government to study privately in the U.S. and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hamish Milne. Engagement Events Tuesday, September 8, 2020 VIRTUAL CLASS VISIT: DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP Gabriela Montero participated in a discussion with Virginia Tech students in political science about present-day Venezuela, the arts, comparative politics, and her human rights advocacy efforts.

Thursday, September 10, 2020 VIRTUAL CLASS VISIT: Q&A WITH PIANO STUDENTS Virginia Tech piano students engaged with Montero during this open discussion on piano technique, composition, and performance.

Special thanks to Binio Binev, Rick Masters, and Hsiang Tu

Go Deeper Watch this on-stage interview with Gabriela Montero from earlier this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, titled Classical Improvisation, Composition, and Creative Dissent. What insights do you gain from Montero’s description of Venezuela’s present political and social conditions? As a musician who composes works as “acts of musical journalism,” what does Montero illuminate about the relationship between the arts and human rights?

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We are grateful for the generosity of our patrons and donors who sustain the Moss Arts Center with their annual gifts. The impact of all contributions, no matter the amount, is significant in helping us transform lives through exploration and engagement with the arts and the creative process. We are honored to have received cash donations during the period of July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, from the following:

Ambassador Mr. Mark Belleville and Ms. Laura Belleville Mrs. Sally Schweitzer Cox and Mr. John W. Cox Mr. Allan W. Beres and Mrs. Amy Beres Mr. Scott M. Freund and Ms. Emily Freund Dr. Rosemary Blieszner and Mr. Stephen P. Gerus Dr. Mark and Connie Froggatt Jo and Bud Brown Mr. Howard C. Huang and Mrs. Laura Huang Ms. Deborah L. Brown Dr. J. Michael Kelly and Mrs. Candi M. Kelly Ms. Elizabeth C. Calvera* Mr. and Mrs. T. Scott Lewis Clem and Georgia Carter Mr. Michael Moses Dr. James M. Shuler and Ms. Margaret F. Shuler Mrs. Rosina M. Carter Mr. Perry Stancato Mrs. Sandra E. Chase and Mr. Peter A. Chase Steelcase, Inc. (ICAT) Virginia H. Cox Mr. Edwin H. Talley III and Mrs. Melinda P. Talley Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Davenport, Jr. Mr. Albert J. Davis and Ms. Linda M. Davis Producer Dr. Glen I. Earthman and Mrs. Julie G. Earthman Erv and Betsy Blythe Norman and Nancy Eiss Larry and Lindsey Bowman Mr. Carl J. Eng and Mrs. Jane Kornegay Eng Mr. Ralph M. Byers Dr. Bill Epstein and Vickie Epstein Elizabeth A. Obenshain and Dr. E. Fred Carlisle Mr. James A. Everett III and Mrs. Karen B. Everett Constance Cedras Dr. William J. Floyd and Dr. Leslie D. Kay Dr. Charles Y. Davis and Mrs. Carole C. Davis Mr. and Mrs. W. Heywood Fralin Don and Libby Drapeau Dr. Lance Franklin and Dr. Anita Franklin Ms. Ann M. Goette Mr. Whiteford D. Grimes Ms. Susan M. Hansen Hampton Roads Community Foundation Ms. A. Patricia Merryman Mr. John T. Hasselmann and Mr. Keith R. Stemple Mr. Floyd W. Merryman, III Paul and Ann Hlusko Mrs. Frances T. Merryman Mrs. Tamara N. Hodsden Dr. Anne H. Moore Patricia Hyer Mr. G. Robert Quisenberry and Steve Jacobs Mrs. Susan G. Quisenberry Randy and Suzie Leslie Mr. David E. Reemsnyder II and Mrs. Janice B. Litschert Mrs. Judith H. Reemsynder Ms. Jeanne S. Lutze Mr. G. Davis Saunders, Jr. Ronnie and Faye Marcum Mrs. Mary Ann Walker and Dr. Kenneth J. Walker Markel Corporation Mrs. Barbara E. Mayo and Dr. William F. Mayo, Sr. Associate Mr. Michael D. McCarthy and Dr. Nancy E. Meck Mr. Thomas L. Ackiss and Mrs. Ann L. Ackiss Dr. Anne McNabb and Dr. Richard M. Burian Dr. Gregory T. Adel and Ms. Kimberly S. Adel Mr. Jeffrey K. Mitchell and Allison B. Mitchell Mrs. Rhonda K. Arsenault and Mr. Thomas E. Olson and Mrs. Martha A. Olson Dr. Lance E. Arsenault Dr. Carl J. Pfeiffer and Mrs. Linda J. Pfeiffer Mr. Andrew Beach Leo and Ellen Piilonen Associate (continued) Mr. Gary T. Blakely and Mrs. Mary E. Blakely Linda and Ray Plaut Ms. Susan L. Bland Bruce and Nancy Beville Prichard Mr. Richard N. Bohlin and Mrs. Bette A. Bohlin Ms. Felice N. Proctor Ms. Patricia L. Bolton Mr. Minnis E. Ridenour and Mrs. Louise Ridenour Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (ICAT) Mary and Ron Rordam Charles W. and Frieda F. Bostian Don and Carolyn Rude Dr. Theodore G. Brna, Jr. Malinda Sayers and Staley Hester In Honor of Catherine K. Breske Dr. Richard D. Shepherd and Ms. Stacy G. Brown Mrs. Laurie W. Shepherd Mr. John L. Bush and Ms. Elizabeth A. Bush In Honor of Ron and Mary Rordam Alexis N. Butt Colonel Howard G. Sholl, Jr. USAF (Ret) and Mr. Michael Capocelli and Mrs. Marcia M. Sholl Ms. Caroline D. Capocelli Dr. Edward F. D. Spencer Rachael E. Carberry Connie and Richard Swanson Mr. Vincent W. Cilimberg and Mrs. Lee Cilimberg Dr. Lou C. Talbutt Dr. Cyril R. Clarke and Dr. Jean Clarke Ms. Ruth M. Waalkes and Mr. Jeffrey C. Cole Ms. Rommelyn C. Coffren and Mr. Roger L. West and Mrs. Debbie West Mr. Zachary B. Coffren Dr. Lee and Anne Wheeler Zai A. Cook Ms. Beverly A. Williges and Mr. Anthony J. Coppa IV and Dr. Robert C. Williges* Ms. Alaina M. Coppa Mr. Thimothy G. Corvin and Mrs. Nancy R. Corvin Friend Larry and Patti Cowley Anonymous (4) James D. Crawford Preeya F. Achari Mr. William C. Davis and Mrs. Sandra C. Davis Ms. Reneé A. Alarid and Mr. Jason Price The DeWitt Family Paula and Tom Alston In Memory of Joseph L. DeWitt (‘16) Ms. Ashleigh E. Anderson and Dr. Jody M. Dodd and Mr. Steven L. Dodd Mr. Matthew Glowacki Dr. Elizabeth H. Domico Quinn Anderson Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Mr. David A. Andrukonis and Bill and Winnie Drummond Mrs. Barbara C. Andrukonis Mr. and Mrs. David Ehrlich Dr. Jeffrey E. Arbogast Dr. Sharon Eifried and Colonel Gary Eifried Mrs. Kimberly A. Ayoub and Mr. Kevin S. Ayoub Ernst & Young Foundation Andrew R. Azir Mr. Juan P. Espinoza and Mrs. Kara Espinoza Devon M. Barbour Mr. Jon H. Fagan and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Fagan Mr. Gary L. Barger and Mrs. Rosa P. Barger Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Farrell Dr. Liesl M. Baum Walker Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Pierce Felch III Michidmaa Bayarjargal Dr. Jack W. Finney and Mrs. Kathy P Finney Mrs. Mary Jo Baylor and Mr. Robert P. Baylor III Mr. Terry K. Nicholson and Ms. Terri L. Fisher Mrs. Betty S. Bell Beverly B. Fleming Mr. Timothy L. Beres and Mrs. Jill Beres Mr. Nathan Folta Mr. and Mrs. Jackson M. Betts, Jr. Ms. Lisa D. Forcke Mr. Randall S. Billingsley and Mr. Jerry R. Ford, Jr. and Dr. Bonnie S. Billingsley Mrs. Elizabeth A. Lohman

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Endowment Acknowledgement Joe and Linda Hopkins Arts Enrichment Fund Timothy and Michelle Bendel Center for the Arts Charles and Dorothy Lambert Endowment for Excellence Fund the Arts Larry and Lindsey Bowman Center for the Arts Dave and Judie Reemsnyder Center for the Arts Excellence Fund G. Davis Saunders, Jr. Fund for Excellence Deborah L. Brown Center for the Arts Excellence James M. and Margaret F. Shuler Fund for Fund Excellence Keith and Constance Cedras Center for the Arts Elizabeth McIntosh Mitchell Trauger Excellence Excellence Fund Fund

Refund Acknowledgement Thank you to our patrons who declined their ticket refunds for the performances that were cancelled last Spring due to COVID-19.

Anonymous (2) George J. Flick, Jr. and Charlene R. Flick Dr. Gregory T. Adel and Ms. Kimberly S. Adel Ms. Laura R. Freeman and Dr. Jeremy H. Freeman Dr. and Mrs. James R. Armstrong Dr. Mark and Connie Froggatt Ms. Barbara K. Avery Dr. Terry and Mrs. Paula Golden Bob and Lynda Bailey Dr. John M. Gregg and Mrs. Leslie Roberts Gregg Bill and Susan Baker Ms. Elizabeth Hahn and Mr. Douglas Chancey Robert E. and Jean L. Benoit Dr. Jeannie Hamilton and Dr. David Hamilton Dr. Jacqueline E. Bixler Dr. A. L. Hammett, III and Elizabeth R. Hammett Dr. Rosemary Blieszner and Mr. Stephen P. Gerus Jan and Jack Hencke Dr. Charles and Mrs. Frieda Bostian Dr. William G. Herbert and Ms. Deborah L. Brown Ms. Joy Ackerman-Herbert Jo and Bud Brown Anthony Wright and Phillip Hernandez Dr. Paul R. Carlier and Ms. Deborah W. Carlier Mr. John S. Hildreth Rick A. and Linda C. Caudill John and Sharen Hillison Constance Cedras Dr. Klaus H. Hinkelmann Dr. Patricia E. Ceperley Dr. Joan B. Hirt Brenda McDaniel and Rupert Cutler Paul and Ann Hlusko Ms. Kathryn M. Debnar Mr. Joseph T. Ivers, Jr. and Dr. Karen P. DePauw Ms. Constance Cummings Ms. Nancy M. Dodd Posey D. and Karen S. Jones Don and Libby Drapeau Dr. J. Michael Kelly and Mrs. Candi M. Kelly Holli Gardner Drewry Dr. Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and Kevin and Marilyn Edgar Dr. Noreen M. Klein Michael S. and Vicki B. Eggleston Ms. Julia A. Kriss Dr. Michael R. Evans Dr. Andrew M. Kulak Mrs. Georgia Anne Snyder-Falkinham and Ms. Patricia S. Lavender and Mr. Charles A. Stott Dr. Joseph O. Falkinham III Ms. Margaret E. Layne Mrs. Karen S. Finch Dr. Lisa M. Lee and Dr. Frances A. McCarty Beverly B. Fleming Mrs. Janice B. Litschert Ms. Roberta Littlefield Ms. Angela Vikesland Dr. Chelsea H. Lyles Mr. Clayland H. Waite Dr. Susan G. Magliaro and Dr. Terry M. Wildman Mrs. Mary Ann Walker and Dr. Kenneth J. Walker Mrs. Carol A. Marchal Dr. Charles O. Warren, Jr. and Ronnie and Faye Marcum Mrs. Nancy N. Warren Janne and Stan Mathes Ms. Sheila G. Winett and Dr. Richard A. Winett Janice McBee and Benjamin Johnson Dr. Tim and Jamie Worley Mr. Robert H. Leonard and Ms. Mary J. Zody Ms. Deborah McClintock Dr. Anne McNabb and Dr. Richard M. Burian Brian M. Britt and Jessica Meltsner Paul D. and Nancy A. Metz Jeffrey B. and Sandra M. Miller Ms. Anna B. Mitchell Mr. Mark B. Mondry Saied and Patty Mostaghimi Donald E. and Kathleen J. Mullins Mr. Thomas E. Olson and Mrs. Martha A. Olson Mr. Timothy L. Pickering Dr. Ellen W. Plummer Travis and Marge Poole Ms. Felice N. Proctor Ms. Sherwood P. Quillen Ms. Margaret Ray Mr. David E. Reemsnyder II and Mrs. Judith H. Reemsnyder Mary and Ron Rordam Don and Carolyn Rude Dr. George E. Russell and Mrs. Frances M. Hutcheson-Russell Dr. Roberta S. Russell Dr. Todd Schenk and Mrs. Radka Schenk Kretinska Elena L. Serrano Doug and Kathie Sewall Dr. Richard D. Shepherd and Mrs. Laurie W. Shepherd Mr. Neil L. Shumsky and Ms. Marcia S. Shumsky Arthur and Judy Snoke Dr. Alan W. Steiss and Ms. Patricia Steiss Dr. M. Jill Stewart Lee and Patti Talbot Mr. Edwin H. Talley III and Mrs. Melinda P. Talley Mr. Steven E. Tatum Mr. Charles L. Taylor and Mrs. Mary Taylor Ms. Susan E. Terwilliger Ms. Morgan M. Thompson Support the Moss Arts Center as we continue setting the stage for the arts in our community.

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PERFORMANCES l EXHIBITIONS l EXPERIENCES 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA 24061 artscenter.vt.edu | 540-231-5300 The Moss Arts Center presents HOMESTAGE An exclusive series of online performances and conversations—live in the comfort of your own home.

Fri., Sept. 25, 7:30 PM EDT Leyla McCalla Live from New Orleans

Fri., Oct. 9, 7:30 PM EDT A Piano, A Song, and a Pink Martini Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes

Mon., Oct. 12, 7:30 PM EDT And So We Walked DeLanna Studi and the Trail of Tears

Fri., Oct. 23, 7:30 PM EDT The Treasures of Fiddlers Mark and Maggie O’Connor

Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:30 PM EDT HIP-HOP DANCE BREAKDOWN Choreographer Ephrat Asherie

Fri., Nov. 6, 7 PM EST Javaad Alipoor The Believers Are But Brothers PERFORMANCES l EXHIBITIONS l EXPERIENCES 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA 24061 artscenter.vt.edu | 540-231-5300