Tickets available: Cygnus Ensemble/Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. Wednesday, March 7, 2012 @Coolidge Auditorium

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Directed by JOY ZINOMAN Featuring TED VAN GRIETHUYSEN, actor and the CYGNUS ENSEMBLE. An extraordinary evening of theater and music begins the life of a new endowment for contemporary music at the Library of Congress, through a generous bequest from the composer and pianist Dina Koston. Seeing a performance of Samuel Beckett’s play Ohio Impromptu inspired Koston's last composition, Distant Intervals. Joy Zinoman, founding Emeritus Director of The Studio Theatre, directs the master minimalist's haunting and rarely seen short work, deeply rooted in Beckett's personal and imaginative life. Following it, the Cygnus players offer a work by Frank Brickle: "Farai un vers", for 2 guitars, cello and soprano, set to a text by Guillaume d'Aquitaine, the first troubador – a gesture to Koston's thoughtful programming style – and the world premiere of a new song cycle by Mario Davidovsky, commissioned for the occasion.

Pre-concert presentation -- 6:15 pm -- Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required): Joy Zinoman talks about Samuel Beckett and the genesis of the Library’s special production of Ohio Impromptu.

OHIO IMPROMPTU is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

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