The Musician Dawes: Celebrating Charles Dawes' Musical Life and Legacy

Although Charles Gates Dawes was and is primarily known for his outstanding achievements as a lawyer, businessman, banker, politician, public servant, and diplomat, MUSIC was his first and greatest love. As one journalist wrote, “In the banker Dawes there is bottled up an artist.” Indeed, the varied threads of Dawes’s musical life were inextricably interwoven with those of his personal life and professional careers, and he brought to his music-related activities many of the same qualities that defined his professional work.

Through specially curated musical selections and insightful commentary, award-winning violinist Sara Su Jones and pianist Tatyana Stepanova will share previously untold stories of the remarkable musical life and legacy of Charles Gates Dawes, yielding fresh insights into this intriguingly multifaceted and multi-talented public figure. During this concert, audience members will experience music as Dawes himself did in his daily life: in the intimacy of a salon setting, with the sounds of the violin and of the gorgeous Dawes House Steinway at the heart of his home reminding us of the central role that classical music played throughout Dawes’s life.

60 minute concert program plus post-concert reception and the opportunity to explore the Dawes House and the reFashioning History exhibit.

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