/internal/media/dispatcher/73680/full"Presidents Day Concert: Honoring the Museum's 30th Anniversary" Program02/18/2019Duration: 60 MinutesBorn digital (.mov file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2019.001.00150Presidents Day Concert: Honoring the Museum's 30th Anniversary. Premiere performance of the commissioned work, “The Sixth Floor,” composed by Jesus Martinez and performed by the Julius Quartet. The performance was followed by a Q&A session. Comprised of musicians Hyun Jeong Lee, David Do, John Batchelder and Brooke Scholl, the award-winning Julius Quartet was formed in fall 2012 in New England and currently holds the Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University (2017-2020).
Public program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 18, 2019, recorded by TSFM staff member Andy Stark. The program is 1 hour long.
Oral Histories6569563085Oral historyPresidents Day Concert: Honoring the Museum's 30th Anniversary. Premiere performance of the commissioned work, “The Sixth Floor,” composed by Jesus Martinez and performed by the Julius Quartet. The performance was followed by a Q&A session. Comprised of musicians Hyun Jeong Lee, David Do, John Batchelder and Brooke Scholl, the award-winning Julius Quartet was formed in fall 2012 in New England and currently holds the Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University (2017-2020).
Public program was conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 18, 2019. The program is 1 hour long.Oral historiesMusic"The Sixth Floor"Martinez, JesusThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaSouthern Methodist UniversityDallasHistory of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Artists (OHC)The full recording of this Presidents Day Concert may additionally be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgHimwmgLJ0. -- Stephen Fagin, CuratorIn a 2018 oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum, composer Jesus Martinez discussed how he initially approached this commissioned piece. He said, "I was thinking about it and doing a lot of research. I came to the thought that, well, you know, I'm thirty-one. Most of my generation knows a little bit about JFK obviously through school and their own research. But I wanted to recreate it. I wanted to recreate the assassination in a way." From the start, Martinez recognized that many of the people who would hear "The Sixth Floor" were not alive at the time of the assassination. He said, "What I would like young students or young children to take away from it is that, you know, music is very, very, very much an important part of our lives. It tells a story through a different outlet, through a different cue. And I think if the students can feel half of what I felt, I think that would be really, really important." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator