Wolf Trap's New President + Hard Art: DC's Punk Scene 1979




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Summary: <p>WOLF TRAP'S NEW PRESIDENT: Arvind Manocha spent more than a decade growing the audiences for the L.A. Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl, two of the West Coast's most iconic music venues. He's now leading Wolf Trap, the country's only national park for the performing arts. He shares plans for the future of the historic venue and its national education program. (25 min.) HARD ART: DC'S PUNK SCENE 1979: Early in his career, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lucian Perkins stumbled into a hardcore show featuring the Bad Brains. He found himself documenting an underground music scene at a moment when bands like Trenchmouth and Teen Idle were coming on the scene. The photos sat in boxes for years, and are now featured in a new book with essays by musician Alec MacKaye, who attended many of the same shows. We speak with Perkins and MacKaye about DC's unique music history. (25 min.)</p>