The Olson/De Cari Duo at MIT and Festival 21
The Olson/De Cari Duo will perform a featured concert as part of Festival 21 on Saturday, April 16 at 2:15 PM at the Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston, MA. Buy tickets online in advance for this concert or for the full day-long festival. This concert will premiere the Duos full program of Science/Music to date, including Men, Women and Molecules, a song cycle composed by Frank Wallace on the poetry of chemistry Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann. Other works include the song cycles Abyss of the Stars: A Mass for Voice and Guitar by Terry Champlin and Scientiphilicity by Thomas Donahue, and a brand-new solo guitar composition, Orbit, by J. Andrew Dickenson. All music in this program has been written expressly for the Olson/De Cari Duo as part of the Science/Music Commissioning Project. For more information, visit our web site.
“The Olson/De Cari Duo straddle science and art gloriously” — Talking Science, part of the Science Friday Initiative
Actress/singer/writer and “recovering mathematician” Gioia De Cari is the writer/performer of the hit award-winning solo show Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze. Gioia and her husband John Olson, research scientist, classical guitarist and President of the New York City Classical Guitar Society, also perform music together as the Olson/De Cari Duo. The Duo is currently commissioning new music on scientific themes via their Science/Music Commissioning Project. Truth Values will be presented as part of M.I.T.’s 150th Anniversary celebration at a special performance venue for the show, the new Media Lab (Building E-14). The performance is March 28, 7:30 PM, and is being presented as the evening’s entertainment in conjunction with the symposium, “Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of M.I.T.” The performance is open to the public; however registration for the symposium is required. To register, visit the symposium web site.
