Viola Recital with Dillon Scott

Dillon Scott is performing a viola recital at Parkway Central Library on Saturday, October 31, at 3 PM. He'll be playing in the lobby, and the whole thing is presented by the library's Music Department, which is also the place to go with any questions about the event.

Scott is a local, award-winning violist, and the program is built around his own original compositions for the viola. It's an instrument that gets a lot of talk for sounding like the human voice, and that's exactly what he's leaning into here. He describes the recital as a casual afternoon performance, one where his musical storytelling carries the audience to different times and places while celebrating the gift of music. Since it's in the lobby rather than a formal concert hall, it's the kind of thing you can just drift into on a Saturday afternoon.

If you're not that familiar with the viola, it's the larger, deeper-voiced cousin of the violin, and Scott's work is written specifically for it. He's a local player, so this is a chance to hear a Philadelphia musician performing his own material right here in the city. The Music Department is the one putting it on, and they're the point of contact for anything you need to know before you head over.

It all goes down on Saturday, October 31, starting at 3 PM in the Parkway Central Lobby at Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, between 19th and 20th Streets in Philadelphia.