Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2010-2011

2010-2011 schedule of events

Season-at-a-Glance   2010: October | November | December   2011: February | March | April | May

All concerts are free but most require tickets (see ticket information and dates when tickets are available for each concert). All programs and dates are subject to change without notice. Please check this page for the most up-to-date information. Request ASL and ADL accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

OCTOBER 2010

Friday, OCTOBER 8, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: Ensemble 415
Ensemble 415 “virtuosity tinged with tenderness and introspection”
Chiara Banchini, artistic director

Eva Borhi, violin / Peter Barczi, violin and viola / Patricia Gagnon, viola / Gaetano Nasillo, cello / Michele Barchi, harpsichord

Banchini’s stellar ensemble, which has nurtured a generation of preeminent early music performers, offers music of the Italian and German Baroque on period instruments.

ALBINONI: Sinfonia à 5 in C Major, op. 2, no. 2
MUFFAT: Sonata no. 2 in G minor, from Armonico Tributo
BACH: Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV1056r
VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor, op. 1, no. 12 (“La Follia”)
ALBICASTRO: Concerto à 4, op. 7, no. 2
ALBINONI: Sonatao à 5 in B-flat Major, op. 2, no. 5

6:15 pm - Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Priest, Freedom Fighter, Dilletante: Three Composers (and the Agent Who Made Them Stars)" - John Moran, Peabody Institute

Swiss Arts Council prohelvetiaEnsemble 415 is in residence with the Festival Music and Memory and the City of Dole. It is subsidized by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the Regional Council and Regional Administration for Cultural Affairs of Franche-Comté. This concert is organized in cooperation with the Maison Française of the Embassy of France.

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Wednesday, OCTOBER 13, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: Arcanto Quartet
Arcanto Quartet “performances of poise, animation, and joy”

In its first North American tour this quartet of notable soloists makes its Washington, DC debut highlighted by Bartók’s Fifth Quartet commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.

MOZART: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major
BARTÓK: String Quartet no. 5
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Thursday, OCTOBER 14, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: English Concert -- Coote, Biecket, Manson and Podger
The English Concert “razor-edge ensemble sense”
Harry Bicket, artistic director & harpsichord

with Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano / Rachel Podger, violin /
Jonathan Manson, cello
/ William Carter, lute

One of the world's finest period instrument orchestras comes to the Library with a singer praised for her “commanding, sensual, and leonine presence” and “a voice of copper silk” in vocal and instrumental works by Dowland, Handel, Monteverdi, and Vivaldi.

VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor, op. 1, no. 12 ("Follia")
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 208 ("Il Grosso Mogul")
MONTEVERDI: “Lamento d'Arianna”
DOWLAND:"Come again, sweet love doth now invite"
                  "Weep you no more, sad fountains"
                  Image: Willam Carter"If my complaints could passions move"
                  Lachrimae Pavan (lute solo)
                  "In darkness let me dwell"
VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in C minor, RV 401
HANDEL: Cantata: "O nume eterni", HWV 145, ("La Lucrezia")
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6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Early Music at the Library: 85 Years of Performance Practice History" - Harry Bicket with Anne McLean (moderator), Norman Middleton, and James Wintle, Music Division


Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Thursday, OCTOBER 21, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: Talich Quartet
Talich Quartet “transparency, assurance, and lightness of touch”

Masterworks performed by the second incarnation of one of the world’s finest quartets — the epitome of the illustrious Czech tradition of string playing.

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 18, no. 6
                     (“La Malinconia”)
JANÁČEK: String Quartet no. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in G Major, op. 106
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6:15 pm - Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Preconcert presentation: "Sam McGee’s Railroad Blues and Other Versions of the Republic" – Greil Marcus, cultural critic and popular music scholar (Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress American Folklife Center)

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Thursday, OCTOBER 28, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: Thomas Hampson; Craig Rutenberg
Thomas Hampson, baritone “a marvel of dramatic intensity”
with Craig Rutenberg, piano

A passionate advocate of American song and special advisor to the Library of Congress for the Legacy of the Performing Arts celebrates Barber’s 100th and Mahler’s 150th birth anniversaries, and offers a group of American favorites.

6:15 pm - Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Preconcert presentation: Barbara B. Heyman, author of Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music
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Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Saturday, OCTOBER 30, 2010 at 8:00pm - FOUNDER'S DAY
Image: Helsinki Baroque
Helsinki Baroque “considerable prowess and musicianship”
Aapo Häkkinen, artistic director & harpsichord

Teppo Lampela, countertenor / Minna Kangas and Tuomo Suni, violin /
Mikko Perkola and Varpu Haavisto, viola da gamba

The accomplished Finnish period instrument group makes its American debut with Bach and works from the Düben Collection of 17th- and 18th-century music.

FÖRSTER: Laudate Dominum
BUXTEHUDE: Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64;
BACH: Sonata in G Major for viola da gamba, BWV 1027
TUNDER: Salve mi Jesu
BACH: Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt, BWV 198
BACH: Italian Concerto, BWV 971
MEDER: Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht
KIRCHOFF: Suite à 4
BUXTEHUDE: Jesu, meine Freud und Lust, BuxWV 59

6:15 pm - Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Preconcert presentation:
"Gustav Düben’s Music Library: A European Treasure" – Dr. Kerala Johnson Snyder, Professor Emerita of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, and co-editor of the Düben Collection Database Catalogue

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NOVEMBER 2010

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 9, 2010 at 8:00
Image: Montero and Capucon
Gautier Capuçon, cello “extraordinary technical grace”
Gabriela Montero, piano “subtle shadings, steely power”

An exciting musical partnership born under the aegis of the legendary Martha Argerich: her Venezuelan protégée and the brilliant young French cellist, two of the most exciting young performers of today.

PROKOFIEV: Sonata for cello and piano in C Major, op. 119
MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, op. 58
RACHMANINOV: Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, op. 19
                                              

Saturday, NOVEMBER 13, 2010 at 2:00pm (no tickets required)
Man, Music, and Machine 1710 to 2010

Nicolas Kitchen and the Borromeo Quartet compare the 18th-century technologies of the violin and multi-manual organs with 21st-century sound processing and electric guitar pedals, featuring music by J.S. Bach and Steve Reich.

Friday, NOVEMBER 19, 2010 at 8:00pm
Image: Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet   “spirit, wit, sophistication”

Prize winners in the Osaka and the Borciani competitions, this London-based ensemble makes its first American appearance at the Frick Collection and the Library of Congress.

HAYDN: String Quartet in A Major, op. 20, no. 6
KORNGOLD: String Quartet no. 3 in D Major, op. 34
WEBERN: String Quartet, op. 28
SCHUMANN: String Quartet no. 2 in F Major, op. 41, no. 2

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Vienna to Hollywood: The Korngold Collection" – Loras Schissel, Music Division

Saturday, NOVEMBER 20, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Image: Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet  
      “sinuous, smoky waves of sound”

A not-to-be-missed all-star quartet: trumpeter/composer Smith, pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist John Lindberg, and drummer Pheeroan akLaff.

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Host of WPFW’s “Sound of Surprise” Larry Appelbaum, Music Division, interviews Wadada Leo Smith.


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DECEMBER 2010

Friday, DECEMBER 3, 2010 at 8:00 pm - On LOCation
Image: Lionel Loueke Trio
Lionel Loueke Trio “a feel-good sense of joy”

West African harmonies and jazz rhythms are seamlessly blended by guitarist/singer/composer Loueke with Massimo Biolcati on bass and Ferenc Nemeth on drums.

Part of On LOCation at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

6:15 pm – Atlas Center for the Performing Arts (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation (CANCELLED): Host of WPFW's "Sound of Surprise" Larry Appelbaum, Music Division, interviews Lionel Loueke

Saturday, DECEMBER 4, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Image: Little Big Town
Country Music Association Songwriters Series

Bob DiPiero hosts an intimate evening of country in the Coolidge, with fellow songwriters Brett James and Lori McKenna.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
LITTLE BIG TOWN  (platinum-selling top country vocal quartet--Karen Fairchild; Jimi Westbrook; Phillip Sweet; Kimberly Schlapman)

SONGWRITERS:
BOB DiPIERO (host for the evening);  BRETT JAMES;  LORI MCKENNA

Image: Bob DiPiero, Brett James, Lori McKenna

Saturday, DECEMBER 11, 2010 at 2:00pm (no tickets required)
Performance and Booksigning: Working (and Not Working) with Bernstein

Composer Jack Gottlieb, author of the recently published memoir, Working with Bernstein, discusses his own role as a fellow composer. This will be followed by a performance of his instrumental chamber and vocal music and a booksigning.

Saturday, DECEMBER 18, 2010 at 8:00 pm
                                                          STRADIVARI ANNIVERSARY
Image: Sybarite5
SYBARITE5  “a fresh new breeze [in] chamber music”

Five terrific American string players juxtapose Classical, Romantic, and contemporary works and their own re-imagined arrangements of Radiohead in a program that thrusts chamber music into the future.

PIOTR SZEWCZYK: The Rebel
DVOŘÁK:
String Quintet in G Major, op. 77
DAN VISCONTI: Black Bend
MOZART: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
PIAZZOLLA: Two Tangos
Selections from the Radiohead Remixed Project

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "The Future of Music" – Tod Machover, composer; Director, MIT Media Lab

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FEBRUARY 2011

Friday, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Salzburg Hyperion Ensemble
Salzburg Hyperion Ensemble 
       “a sonic depth that makes one gasp”

Firmian Lermer, artistic leader and viola
Werner Neugebauer and Gregor Sigl, violins / Peter Langgartner, viola /
Erich Oskar Hütter and Detlef Mielke, cellos

This ensemble of musicians from prestigious European orchestras and chamber music societies offer well-known and seldom heard chamber music, including the original sextet version of Verklärte Nacht.

R. STRAUSS: Sextet from the opera Capriccio, op. 85
SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4
BRAHMS: Sextet no. 2 in G Major, op. 36

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Manuscript Sources of Verklärte Nacht" – Wayne Shirley, senior specialist (emeritus), Music Division

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Friday, FEBRUARY 11, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Image: Utrecht String Quartet
Utrecht String Quartet   “clarity, depth, and impact”

Praised for its benchmark recordings of Tchaikovsky, this dynamic and versatile quartet from the Netherlands makes its first U.S. appearance in the Library of Congress.

AUERBACH: String Quartet no. 1 (Washington premiere)
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in B-flat Major, D112
MEIJERING: “Mein junges Leben hat (k)ein End” (after Sweelinck)
                  (U.S. premiere)

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet no. 2 in F Major, op. 22

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Organist/harpsichordist Stephen Ackert, National Gallery of Art, discusses and demonstrates aspects of Sweelinck’s “Mein junges Leben hat ein End” in its original keyboard version.

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 22, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Quatuor Debussy

Quatuor Debussy  “luminous performance”
with Katherine Chi, piano  “remarkably compelling”

This excellent Lyon-based quartet performs an unusual program capped by a French work “of bold originality and dark beauty,” featuring one of Canada’s fastest rising stars.

GLASS: String Quartet no. 2 (“Company”)
PUCCINI: Crisantemi
MILHAUD: String Quartet no. 9, op. 140
FRANCK: Piano Quintet in F minor

This concert is organized in cooperation with the Maison Française of the Embassy of France.

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Friday, FEBRUARY 25, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Image: Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway
Eddie Daniels, clarinet   “clarity, depth, and impact”
Roger Kellaway, piano  “understated brilliance”

“A duet of one” two jazz masters with classical leanings and an impressive command of the American Songbook.

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: “Jazz and the American Songbook” – Larry Appelbaum in a conversation with Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway.

Saturday, FEBRUARY 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Image: Pandolfo and Boysen
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba 
          “piquant sensitivity and noble nuance”
Thomas Boysen, theorbo/Baroque guitar
          “a wide spectrum of expressive possibilities”

La Viole Luthée
Hear this virtuosic duo in a dazzling program of Renaissance improvisations and celebrated works by Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais.

SAINTE-COLOMBE: Prelude, Chaconne in D minor
                             (from the Panmure Manuscript)
MARAIS: Musette, La Georgienne dite La Maupertuy*, Plainte, La Guitarre
              (Pièces de Viole, Bk III/*IV)
MARAIS: Le Tombeau de Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (Pièces de Viol, Bk II)
SAINTE-COLOMBE: Prélude, Chansonette, Chaconne in C Major (from the Panmure Manuscript)

Presentation: During the concert Paolo Pandolfo and curator Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford will unveil one of the Library's newly-restored Wilkins viols from the H. Blakiston Wilkins Early Stringed Instrument Collection.

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MARCH 2011

Tuesday, MARCH 1, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau  “sensuous, cerebral, and incandescent”

The five-time Grammy-award winning pianist-composer is the first jazz artist to hold the 2010-2011 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall—in a rare solo appearance on the Coolidge stage.


Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Thursday, MARCH 3, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Schumann Trio
Schumann Trio  “a sheer delight”

Conceived in 2008 by Anthony McGill, co-principal clarinet of the Met Orchestra; Michael Tree, co-founder of the famed Guarneri Quartet; and Russian-born pianist Anna Polonsky, to explore the rich repertoire for clarinet, piano, and viola or violin.

MOZART: Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt")
BRUCH: from Eight Pieces, op. 8
SHENG: Three Fantasies for Violin and Piano (McKim commission)
BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor, op. 114

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Dr. Deforia Lane, University Hospitals of Cleveland
(Presented in cooperation with the American Music Therapy Association)

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

Thursday, MARCH 10, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Image: Wordless Orchestra
Wordless Music with Tyondai Braxton
Caleb Burhans, conductor  
             “bridging the musical divide”

From the influential New York club, Le Poisson Rouge, and other venues, this genre-bending group melds instumental rock, electronica and classical music in a program of works of Louis Andriessen, Tyondai Braxton, John Adams, and Caleb Burhans.

ADAMS: Road Movies for violin and piano (McKim commission)
BURHANS: In a Distant Place
ANDRIESSEN: Workers' Union
BRAXTON: selections from Central Market and new compositions

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Conversation with Ronen Givony, Wordless Music founder and artistic director, and composer Tyondai Braxton.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Antares with Marianna Mihai-Zoeter
Antares   “radiant with otherworldly majesty”
with Marianna Mihai-Zoeter, soprano  “touching and magnetic”

An acclaimed interpreter of Messiaen’s magnum opus is joined by the Romanian soprano in Schubert’s famous setting of Müller’s love poem.

HARBISON: Fantasy Duo for violin and piano (McKim commission)
SCHUBERT: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965
MALLONÉE: Shadow Rings (Washington premiere)
MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time" – James Wintle, Music Division.

Saturday, MARCH 26, 2011 at 11:00am / 5:30pm -- CANCELED
Image: Tanya Tomkins
Tanya Tomkins, Baroque cello  
      “lucid intelligence, powerful feeling, and lively rhythmic drive”

A traversal of Bach’s technically demanding works for unaccompanied cello, the last Suite on a rare 6-stringed instrument. (Please note: Tickets required for each concert).

11:00am Program:
Suite no. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Suite no. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
Suite no. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

5:30pm Program:
Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Suite no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009
Suite no. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012

3:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: CANCELED

PLEASE NOTE: Due to illness, this concert has been canceled by the artist.

Tuesday, MARCH 29, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Image: Trevor Pinnock
Trevor Pinnock, harpsichords  “poise, polish, and passion”
A Tribute to Wanda Landowska

One of the world’s foremost early music specialists, founder and for three decades conductor of the English Concert, is heard in a unique concert playing two instruments, one of which is Wanda Landowska’s Pleyel, part of the Library’s instrument collections. In addition to works by William Byrd, John Bull, and Giles Farnaby, the program includes:

HANDEL: Chaconne in G Major, HWV 435
FROBERGER: Lamento sopra la dolorosa . . .Ferdinando IV
BACH: French Suite no. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
COUPERIN: Passacaille
RAMEAU: Musette en rondeau
SCARLATTI: 3 Sonatas in D Major, K. 490- 492

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

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APRIL 2010

Friday, APRIL 8, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Image: London Concord Ensemble
London Conchord Ensemble   “elegance and natural warmth”

An opportunity to hear in one concert two quintets sharing the same key and instrumentation: one by Mozart, composed at the height of his powers, and the other a dozen years later by a rising young composer in Bonn.

MOZART: Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, K. 452
POULENC: Sonata for Flute and Piano (Coolidge commission)
BRIDGE: Divertimenti for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon (Coolidge commission)
BEETHOVEN: Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, op. 16

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: CANCELED

Saturday, APRIL 9, 2011 at 2:00pm   (no tickets required)
Image: Army Band
U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
Music of Aaron Copland

Members of the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" (Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr., Leader and Commander) will perform music of Copland and other American works from the Library's collections.

Monday, APRIL 11, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Martial Solal
Martial Solal   “an almost childlike sense of curiosity and playfulness”

A very rare U.S. appearance by the 83-year-old French jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of music for landmark films by Godard, Welles, Cocteau, and others.

This concert is organized in cooperation with the Maison Française of the Embassy of France.

Thursday, APRIL 28, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Thomas Hampson and Andres Diaz
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
  “a jewel in this nation’s musical crown”
David Finkel and Wu Han, artistic directors
with Thomas Hampson, baritone and Andrés Díaz, cello

Gil Kalish, piano / Daniel Druckman, Haruka Fujii, Ayano Kataoka,
and Jeffrey Milarsky, percussion

An extraordinary program featuring George Crumb’s song cycle fusing elements of cowboy and African American songs with music of Debussy and Ives; and Tan Dun's powerful score, commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

CRUMB: Selections from American Songbooks for voice, amplified piano, and percussion
TAN DUN: Elegy: Snow in June for cello and percussion

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Conversation with George Crumb and David Starobin, Bridge Records

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MAY 2011

Thursday, MAY 5, 2011 at 8:00pm   (no tickets required)
Image: U.S. Army Blues
U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
Music of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Gerry Mulligan 

The Army Blues from the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" (Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr., Leader and Commander) will perform American works from the Library's collections.

Friday, MAY 6, 2011 at 8:00pm
Image: Colin Jacobsen and Bruce Levingston
Colin Jacobsen, violin  “electrifying vitality”
Bruce Levingston, piano  “transcendent virtuosity”

Two leading exponents of contemporary American music give the world premiere of works by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Sebastian Currier, David Bruce, and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.

JANÁČEK: Sonata for violin and piano
BIBER: Passacaglia
BRUCE: Passacaglia (World premiere)
CURRIER: Xenakis Remix (Libary of Congress McKim co-commission)
DVOŘÁK: Four Romantic Pieces
YANOV-YANOVSKY: Passacaglia (World premiere)
BOLCOM: New York Lights
PIAZZOLLA: The Grand Tango

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Sebastian Currier talks about his new work and his career.

Saturday, MAY 7, 2011 at 8:00pm - On LOCation
Image: Sue Mathys and John Bell
Sue Mathys “fiery temperament”
Uniting Broadway with the Art of Chanson 
John Bell, music director / piano

Sue Mathys has gained critical and popular success in Europe and in the United States as an actor, concert singer and recording artist for the wide spectrum of her repertory, including leading roles in such musicals as Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Candide and as Maria Callas in Master Class. www.suemathys.com External Link

WHO KNOWS (Music and Lyrics: Harold Rome, I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE)
SOME PEOPLE (Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim, GYPSY)
NON, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN (Charles Dumont/Michel Vaucaire)
MON MANEGE A MOI (Norbert Glanzberg/J. Constantin)
HYMNE A L’AMOUR (Marguerite Monnot/Edith Piaf)
L’ACCORDÉONISTE (Musique et Paroles: Michel Emer)
MON DIEU (Charles Dumont/Michel Vaucaire)
WHAT WAS A WOMAN TO DO (David Yazbek, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS)
CAN THAT BOY FOXTROTT (Stephen Sondheim, FOLLIES)
SO WHAT (John Kander/Fred Ebb, CABARET)
LOVE AND LOVE ALONE (John Kander/Fred Ebb, THE VISIT)
AS WE STUMBLE ALONG (Lisa Lambert/Greg Morrison, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE)
I GOT LOST IN HIS ARMS (Irving Berlin, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN)
NOT WHILE I’M AROUND (Stephen Sondheim, SWEENEY TODD)
COULD I LEAVE YOU (Stephen Sondheim, FOLLIES)
WE’LL MEET AGAIN (Michael Ogborn, CAFÉ PUTTANESCA)
AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOOD-BYE (Andrew Lloyd Webber/ Don Black & Christopher Hampton, SUNSET BOULEVARD)
WITH ONE LOOK (Andrew Lloyd Webber/ Don Black & Christopher Hampton, SUNSET BOULEVARD)

Part of On LOCation at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

Friday, MAY 13, 2011 at 8:00pm
Tigran Alikhanov
Music from Moscow
Tigran Alikanov, piano  “striking musicianship”

Eugenia Alikahanova and Galina Kokhanovskaya, violins /
Tatiana Kokhanovskaya, viola / Olga Ogranovitch, cello

Monumental chamber works by two gigantic figures in the history of the Moscow Conservatory, interpreted by an exponent of the grand Russian school of piano playing and alumnae of Moscow’s Gnessin Institute.

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50
TANAYEV: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 20

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: "Tchaikovsky and Taneyev: Mentor and Protégé" – Kevin LaVine, Music Division

Saturday, MAY 14, 2011 at 8:00pm - On LOCation
NOW Ensemble
Two Composer-Chamber Collectives
Music for the Twenty-first Century

Part of On LOCation at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

NOW Ensemble  “engaging, witty, youthful”

NOW Ensemble re-defines chamber music for the 21st century, fusing "the formal elegance of chamber music with a pop-honed concision and rhythmic vitality." (Time Out New York) Joining the unique lineup of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass and piano in this chamber-music collective are three composers: Judd Greenstein, Mark Danciger and Patrick Burke. The group's critically-acclaimed debut album, called "outstanding" by The Washington Post and the recipient of several five-star reviews, is aptly titled Now.

Victoire
Victoire  “fresh and adventurous . . . minimalist post-rock bliss”

Founded by composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli—one of the hottest voices in the indie classical movement— the new all-star, all-female chamber‑rock quintet of winds, strings, keyboards, and lo‑fi electronics, performs Mazzoli's “distinct blend of dreamy post rock, quirky minimalism, and rich romanticism.”

6:15 pm – Atlas Performing Arts Center (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Conversation with composers Judd Greenstein and Missy Mazzoli

Monday, MAY 16, 2011 at Noon (no tickets required)
Olli Kortekangas
MusicTalk: Meet the Composer
Olli Kortekangas in conversation with Norman Scribner

Enjoy a musical conversation with leading Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas and Choral Arts Society of Washington Artistic Director Norman Scribner. They will be discussing Mr. Kortekangas’ new composition, Seven Songs for Planet Earth, which will premiere Sunday, May 22 at the Kennedy Center.

This free event will take place in the Whittall Pavilion, adjacent to the Coolidge Auditorium. Request ASL and ADL accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

Friday, MAY 20, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Eighth Blackbird
eighth blackbird  “brainy, hip, fearsomely talented”

This vibrant and enormously influential ensemble has uncompromisingly kept new music “alive, kicking, and approachable.”

MAZZOLI: Still Life with Avalanche
HUREL: à mesure
HARTKE: NETSUKE (2010) – Six Miniatures for Violin and Piano (World premiere – McKim commission)
GLASS: Music in Similar Motion
ADÈS: Catch for clarinet, piano, violin & cello, op. 4
HARTKE: Meanwhile

6:15 pm – Whittall Pavilion (no tickets required)
Pre-concert presentation: Stephen Hartke talks about his new piece.

Saturday, MAY 21, 2011 at 8:00pm - On LOCation
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U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own"
Roots of the American Songbook

Members of the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" (Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr., Leader and Commander) will perform American works from the Library's collections. (no tickets required)

Part of On LOCation at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

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