Paquito D'Rivera, GRAMMY award winning Clarinetist and Saxophonist
The American Writer’s Museum is celebrating a new book The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language, a riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English.
Featuring performances and readings from Ilan Stavans, editor of the The People’s Tongue; Paquito D’Rivera, renowned Cuban-American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer; Fareed Haque, Pakistani-Chilean-American jazz and classical guitarist and University of Chicago professor; and Ambassador Carolyn Curiel, senior speechwriter and special assistant to President Bill Clinton and former editorial board member of The New York Times.
The event will begin with a short performance by D’Rivera and Haque, followed by discussion moderated by Stavans and including Curiel, and conclude with several short readings from the anthology.
Available for in person and livestream.