..PASSION & PROSE—MARCH 24
 Passion and Prose
Saturday, March 24
8 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church
4700 Whitehaven Parkway NW
Washington, DC
Directions
Tickets: $20 general admission;
$15 for students & seniors
A TCS WORLD PREMIERE
Gwyneth Walker, A Heart in Hiding (The Passionate Love Poems of Emily Dickinson)
Kenneth Mahy, Four Love Songs
Vincent Persichetti, Flower Songs
Robert Grenier, In Praise of Charity
Music of Byron Adams, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Jean Berger
 About the Composer
Dr. Gwyneth Walker is an award-winning composer of choral and orchestral works, as well as songs for voice and piano. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. She holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Music Composition. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from academic employment in 1982 in order to pursue a career as a full-time composer. Her catalog includes over 160 commissioned works for orchestra, band, chorus and chamber ensembles. Dr. Walker will be in attendance at the TCS March concert and speak about her new composition.
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Carlos Rosario Int'l. School and Career Center |
 The Carlos Rosario International Career Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is a national pioneer in adult education. For over 35 years the Center has educated the Washington, DC, adult immigrant population and supported their American dreams. Under the leadership of Sonia Gutierrez, the Carlos Rosario Center provides a vibrant and encouraging learning environment in order to build community wealth through top-tier workforce development, English language training, access to technology, and job counseling. Carlos Rosario students gain the skills necessary to obtain employment in family-sustaining jobs, begin careers in culinary arts and technology, begin businesses, attain their high school equivalency degrees, gain citizenship, support the education of their children, continue their studies in higher education, and become contributing members of their communities. With its successful approach to holistic learning, the Center has served more than 60,000 students. www.carlosrosario.org |
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