We're utterly thrilled to welcome the singular violinist Simone Porter to the Crypt for a one-night-only solo violin performance that feels tailor-made for DoC. Entitled ad tendo, the program (which she also just released for her debut album) is inspired by the great philosopher Simone Weil, and her belief that "absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

The Latin phrase "ad tendo" – which also gives us our English word "attention" – translates to "I stretch toward." But you didn't come here for a linguistics lesson, you came here to have a top-shelf violinist shatter your soul and build you up better than you were before... and that'd exactly what Simone does - sharing music across the centuries, from 11th century nun Hildegard von Bingen, to Baroque virtuoso Heinrich Biber, to contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Reena Esmail.

Each piece has one thing in common: it offers an experience of total absorption, a feeling of individual and collective deliverance that is ever-more important in our current culture where human attention is treated like a commodity.