The US Embassy will host an American Music Appreciation, featuring the Poetica Musica Ensemble at the National Library today, from 09:00 hrs to 10:30 hrs.
According to a press release from the embassy, the event is for children aged nine years and older and will look at the history of American music from colonial times to the present. The ensemble will perform a number of musical pieces and entry is on a first come, first served basis.
The release said the New York Times has dubbed Poetica Musica “Good Will Ambassadors.” The New York-based consortium currently serves as Artists-in-Residence at Old Westbury Gardens and has toured Europe and the Middle East performing at such festivals as the Janaček in Hukvaldy Festival, the South Bohemia Festival, the Concentus Moraviae Festival, the Česky Krumlov Chamber Music Festival and the Martinu Festival in the Czech Republic sponsored by the Martinu Foundation, the Janaček Foundation and the Baroque Theater Foundation of the Česky Krumlov Chateau.
The ensemble has also performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the St-Martin-in-the-Fields and the Holywell Music Room of Oxford University in Great Britain. Poetica Musica toured Syria performing in Damascus, Homs and Lattakia and presented master classes at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus.
Poetica Musica made its debut at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall participating in the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 Festival, a worldwide celebration for the Bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen sponsored by the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation in Denmark and the Royal Danish Consulate in New York. The group recently visited Kuwait and performed at the Islamic Heritage Foundation, one of Kuwait’s most well-established cultural institutions.
