Cloyce K. Huston Musicale DACOR Bacon House Bicentennial
Event Description
Join us for a musicale that will explore music in America in the Carroll House Household at 18th and F Street featuring MarcOlivia with Olivia Hajioff, violin, and Marc Ramirez, viola. Enjoy music from Alida Carroll's 1866 music notebook over two centuries of song with such ditties as "Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea" and " I Know Not Why I Love Thee" from the House's era, including MarcOlivia's original arrangement for violin and viola of the "Esterhazy Ripple." The Ripple was originally composed for Alida's older sister Sally, who married into Esterhazy nobility to become Countess Esterhazy, a Washington Gilded Age society grande dame.
Other festive pieces include Sleepy John Estes’s ‘Oh Them Rats Is Mean In My Kitchen’ set by John Hartke for Two Violins. Marcolivia will also perform their own arrangement for violin and viola of Arias from Mozart's "Magic Flute," a popular opera at the time, as well as their rendition of traditional Carols for Christmas. Last but not least, there will be ragtime -- Robert Elkjer’s arrangement of "The Johnson Rag" set for two violins. To further popularize the "Esterhazy Ripple," Olivia Hajioff has composed "The Ripple Effect," a poem commemorating the afternoon.
Bacon House will be decorated and festive mulled wine will be served at intermission. Children under 18 accompanied by an adult are admitted free. Come and join us for our Holiday of Strings!!
Location
Setting: In-Person DACOR Bacon House 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
