MusicIC: Proust’s Musical World

MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival, returns for a second year with a weeklong series of concerts and other events June 10-16.  MusicIC’s theme, “Where Literature and Music Meet,” continues a tradition of linking the music with Iowa City’s rich literary tradition. All festival events are free and open to the public.

The June 15 concert Trinity Episcopal Church has been dubbed Proust’s Musical World because it features music that inspired literary works by the French novelist Marcel Proust. Martin Andrews, co-founder of Iowa City’s Working Group Theatre will read before each piece and festival musicians will perform Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75 and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15.