2012-2013 Season-at-a-Glance
AMERICAN VOICES is the theme for the 2012-2013 concert season, offering a packed lineup of 40 concerts, lectures, film screenings, master classes and workshops. Celebrating the rich tapestry of the nation’s musical heritage--classical music, jazz, folk, pop, country, rock, blues and gospel--the Music Division launches a new Songs of America project, and curates a season highlighting America’s Music at the Nation’s Library. We salute great American voices from the past, including Woody Guthrie, John Philip Sousa, and Victor Herbert, and spend a week with a composer who’s been called “the voice of America”, John Adams, in residence May 20-26, 2013. Our Talking About Music series offers in-depth conversations with artists, scholars and Library curators in panels, lectures and interviews, opening the doors to the treasures of the world’s largest music collection.
| Concert Date | Artist | Tickets Available |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 6 (12:00pm) | Musicircus: John Cage Centennial Film Screening (Pickford Theatre) | no tickets required |
| Friday, September 7 (7:00pm) | The !!!! Beat: Volume One Jazz Film Screening (Hill Center) | August 22* |
| Friday, September 14 (7:00pm) | The !!!! Beat: Volume Two Jazz Film Screening (Hill Center) | August 22* |
| Friday, September 21 (7:00pm) | The !!!! Beat: Volume Four Jazz Film Screening (Hill Center) | August 22* |
| Friday, September 28 (7:00pm) | The !!!! Beat: Volume Six Jazz Film Screening (Hill Center) | August 22* |
| Tuesday, October 2 (12:00pm) | Dr. Barbara Heyman - American Musicological Society Lecture | no tickets required |
| Saturday, October 6 (8:00pm) | Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir | September 5 |
| Wednesday, October 10 (8:00pm) | Pamela Frank and Friends | September 5 |
| Friday, October 12 (8:00pm) | Daniel Hope, violin and Jeffrey Kahane, piano | September 5 |
| Saturday, October 13 (2:00pm) | Celebrating Woody Guthrie at the Library of Congress | September 5 |
| Wednesday, October 17 (8:00pm) | Ron Carter Trio | September 5 |
| Saturday, October 20 (2:00pm) | Rose of Sharon Joel Frederiksen - 100 Years of American Music | September 5 |
| Friday, October 26 (8:00pm) | Pieter Wispelwey, cello and Lois Shapiro, piano | September 19 |
| Saturday, November 3 (2:00pm) | Escher String Quartet ** replacement for the Prazak Quartet ** | September 19 |
| Sunday, November 4 (1:00pm) | Stars and Stripes Forever with John Philip Sousa, IV (Hill Center) | September 19* |
| Friday, November 9 (8:00pm) | Founder's Day Concert: Morton Subotnick, Joan LaBarbara, Lillevan ** rescheduled from October 30 ** |
September 19 |
| Tuesday, November 13 (8:00pm) | Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin, piano | September 26 |
| Friday, November 16 (8:00pm) | Apollon Musagète Quartett | September 26 |
| Thursday, November 29 (8:00pm) | La Risonanza | October 17 |
| Friday, November 30 (9:30pm) | Library Late: ACME and yMusic (Atlas Performing Arts Center) | October 17** |
| Monday, Decembet 3 (8:00pm) | The Musical Worlds of Victor Herbert (Special Concert) William Hicks, music director & piano / Korliss Uecker, vocalist / Jerry Grossman, cello |
October 17 |
| Saturday, December 15 (2:00pm) | The Paganini Project: Peter Sheppard-Skærved, violin | October 31 |
| Tuesday, December 18 (8:00pm) | Antonio Stradivari Anniversary Concert: Miró Quartet with Ricardo Morales, clarinet | October 31 |
| Saturday, February 9 (1:00pm) | Music in the Lincoln White House: "The President's Own" United States Marine Band | December 19† |
| Saturday, February 23 (1:00pm) | Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music (Hill Center) | January 9* |
| Thursday, February 28 (10:00pm) | Library Late: Theo Bleckmann and Ben Monder (Atlas Performing Arts Center) | check back soon** |
| Saturday, March 2 (2:00pm) | Paul Lewis, piano | January 23 |
| Saturday, March 15 (8:00pm) | The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” | check back soon |
| Tuesday, March 19 (12:00pm) | Dr. Todd Decker - American Musicological Society Lecture | no tickets required |
| Wednesday, March 20 (8:00pm) | Country Music Association Songwriters Series | February 6 |
| Saturday, March 30 (1:00pm) | African American Spirituals of the Civil War Dr. James Weldon Norris, Howard University Chorale | February 20† |
| Friday, April 5 (8:00pm) | Gabriel Kahane and Timothy Andres | February 27 |
| Saturday, April 13 (2:00pm) | Christophe Rousset, harpsichord | February 27 |
| Wednesday, April 17 (8:00pm) | Stile Antico | March 6 |
| Thursday, April 18 (8:00pm) | Pavel Haas Quartet | March 6 |
| Saturday, April 20 (8:00pm) | Left Bank Concert Society with Patricia Green, soprano | March 6 |
| Friday, May 3 (8:00pm) | Orchestra 2001 with Ann Crumb and Patrick Mason | March 20 |
| Wednesday, May 22 (8:00pm) | Attacca Quartet | April 10 |
| Thursday, May 23 (8:00pm) | Jennifer Koh, violin and Reiko Uchida, piano (Atlas Performing Arts Center) | April 10** |
| Friday, May 24 (8:00pm) | International Contemporary Ensemble with John Adams, conductor | April 10 |
| Saturday, May 25 (8:00pm) | U.S. Army Blues (Atlas Performing Arts Center) | April 10** |
* Hill Center Box Office **Atlas Box Office †Special Ticketing
Concerts are presented in the Library’s historic Coolidge Auditorium, located in the Thomas Jefferson Building (1st and Independence, S.E.) unless otherwise noted. All events are free of charge to the public, but tickets are required, available through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com
) or (202) 397-7328. For “special ticketing policy” events please email nbrown@loc.gov or call (202) 707-8437. Tickets for events at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H Street, N.E.) are available through the Atlas Box Office (www.atlasarts.org) or (202) 399-7993. Tickets for events at the Hill Center (921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE) are available through the Hill Center Box Office (hillcenterdc.org) or (202) 549-4172.