Occasional Evenings: the Sound of Lispector — Music, Reading, and Conversation

Join us Friday, April 11th, for an evening of musical performance, readings, and live discussion in honor of two new works—one musical, one literary—related to the work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector: the release of vocalist Lacy Rose’s concept album Lispector and of essayist Katrina Dodson’s Covert Joy, a selection of her translations of Lispector’s short stories. Between performances by Rose and her backing band the Starling Quartet, Rose, Dodson, and BISR faculty Rebecca Ariel Porte will discuss the arts of composition and translation, Lispector’s aesthetics and legacy, and the enduring power of her writing.

The event is free to attend, with a suggested $10 donation. Copies of Covert Joy will be available for purchase, courtesy of Taylor & Co. Books. Beer, wine, seltzer, and snacks will be served. Please RSVP below.

Participants

• Lacy Rose

  Lacy Rose is a classically trained vocalist, composer and lyric poet based in New York City, who often performs her contemporary art songs alongside Starling Quartet. A recipient of the NYFA Women’s Fund grant, Rose’s song cycle LISPECTOR was co-produced by arranger Isaac Hayward and engineered by three-time Grammy Award® winner John Kilgore. Rose’s multi-year engagement with the work of Clarice Lispector also includes an operatic adaptation of the Brazilian writer’s The Passion According to G.H., directed by Dara Malina and workshopped at Mabou Mines under the mentorship of JoAnna Akalaitis. In addition, Rose has played with a variety of artists including Cocorosie, Baby Dee, Dave Malloy, and Carol Lipnik, as well as choreographer Coco Karol and composers Sxip Shirey, Isaac Hayward and Alaina Ferris. She made her Mostly Mozart Festival debut in the Schubertiade Remix at Lincoln Center alongside members of the International Contemporary Ensemble.

• Katrina Dodson

  Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2015), winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. Her translation of Mário de Andrade’s 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero With No Character was published by New Directions in 2023. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. Originally from San Francisco, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.

Event Schedule

Friday, 7:00pm ET
April 11, 2025

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