Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2007-2008

2008-09 Preliminary Schedule of Concerts/Events and Ticket Sale Dates

Unless otherwise noted, all concerts will be held at 8 p.m. in the Coolidge Auditorium, located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E. Programs are subject to change without notice.

All concerts are free but require tickets, available from TicketMaster for a nominal service charge, (202) 397-7328; (703) 573-7328; (410) 547-7328; and www.TicketMaster.com. Please note TicketMaster sale dates below. Tickets are not required for pre-concert presentations, and patrons wishing to attend only those presentations are welcome. Seating for these presentations, including lectures in the Music and the Brain series, is first come, first served.

Thursday, September 18 at 7:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Lecture: “After Pearl Harbor: Music, War, and the Library of Congress”
Professor Annegret Fauser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
No tickets required

Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
“Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia,” (1991) documentary film screening
No tickets required

Friday, October 17 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Collegium Vocale Gent, with Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
Ticket sale date: September 17

Pre-concert presentation at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - “Homo Musicus: How Music Began”
Ellen Dissanayake, University of Washington

Friday, October 24 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Jim Hall Trio
Ticket sale date: September 24

Saturday, October 25 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Christopher Taylor, piano - Messiaen Centennial Concert
Ticket sale date: September 24

Thursday, October 30 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Fireworks Ensemble - Founder’s Day Concert
Ticket sale date: October 1

Pre-concert presentation at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - “Dangerous Music”
Jessica Krash, George Washington University, and Norman Middleton

Friday, October 31 at 7:00pm
“Apparition of the Eternal Church” (2006)

7:00pm - Film screening of Paul Festa’s documentary on Olivier Messiaen’s organ work of the same name. Mary Pickford Theater. Reservations required

Saturday, November 1 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Tony Arnold, soprano and Jacob Greenberg, piano - Messiaen Centennial Concert
Ticket sale date, October 1

Friday, November 7 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Tetzlaff Quartet
Ticket sale date, October 1

Pre-concert presentation at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - "The Music of Language and the Language of Music"
Dr. Aniruddh D. Patel, Neurosciences Institute

Thursday, November 13 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Kuss Quartet
Ticket sale date, October 8

Friday, November 14 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Takács Quartet and Muzsikás, with guest artist Márta Sebestyén
Ticket sale date, October 8

Mondays, November 17 - December 15
Rock ‘n’ Roll Film Series, curated by Norman Middleton
Mary Pickford Theater

Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Lecture/Booksigning: Daniel Levitin

Music and the Brain - “The World in Six Songs: How the Brain Created Musical Nature”
No tickets required

Friday, November 21 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Rosanne Cash and Mark O’Connor
Ticket sale date: October 15

Friday, December 5 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
American Creativity: Chamber Music of Charles Wuorine
Ticket sale date: October 22

Pre-concert presentation at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - "Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music That Makes Them Weep?"
Dr. David Huron, Ohio State University

Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00pm
“A Labyrinth of Time” (2006) Elliott Carter documentary by Frank Scheffer - Elliott Carter Centennial Celebration
Film screening in the Mary Pickford Theater, Reservations required

Thursday, December 11 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Verge Ensemble - Elliott Carter Centennial Celebration
Ticket sale date: October 29

Friday, December 12 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Sequitur - Elliott Carter Centennial Celebration
Ticket sale date: October 29

Thursday, December 18 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Harlem Quartet with Carter Brey, cello - Stradivari Anniversary Concert
Ticket sale date: November 5

Tuesday, February 3 at 7:00pm (Whittall Pavilion)
Symposium: Depression and Creativity - Music and the Brain
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison convenes a discussion with three distinguished colleagues in the fields of neurology and neuropsychiatry: Dr. Antonio Damasio; Dr. Terence Ketter; and, Dr. Peter Whybrow.
Presented by the Music Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division, with support from the Dana Foundation

Friday, February 6 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Cypress String Quartet
Ticket sale date: December 24

Saturday, February 7 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Hommage à Bartók: György and Márta Kurtág, duo pianists and the Keller String Quartet
Ticket sale date: December 24

Tuesday, February 10 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Mira Trio
Ticket sale date: December 31

Friday, February 13 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Atrium Quartet
Ticket sale date: December 31

Wednesday, February 18 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Trio con Brio Copenhagen with James Dunham, viola
Ticket sale date: January 7

Thursday, February 19 at 7:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Lecture: Reflections on the Mendelssohn Bicentenary by R. Larry Todd, Duke University
No tickets required

Friday, February 27 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Betsy Burleigh, Director
Ticket sale date: January 14

Thursday, March 5 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Belcea Quartet
Ticket sale date: January 21

Pre-concert presentation (Whittall Pavilion) at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - "From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication"
Dr. Steven Brown, McMaster University

Friday, March 6 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Biréli Lagrène & Sylvain Luc, duo guitarists
Ticket sale date: January 21

Friday, March 13 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Quatuor Ébène
Ticket sale date: January 28

Pre-concert presentation (Whittall Pavilion) at 6:15 pm
Music and the Brain - “Halt, or I’ll Play Vivaldi!”-- Classical Music as Crime Stopper
Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott, Seattle University, and Norman Middleton

Friday, March 27 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
New Zealand Quartet with guest artist Richard Nunns, traditional Maori instruments
Ticket sale date: February 11

Pre-concert presentation (Whittall Pavilion) at 6:15pm
Music and the Brain - "The Mind of the Artist"
Dr. Michael Kubovy and Dr. Judith Shatin, University of Virginia

Wednesdays, April 1-22 at 7:00pm
Jazz in the Spring at the Nation’s Library Film Series, Curated by Larry Appelbaum
Mary Pickford Theater

Friday, April 3 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Dominant Quartet
Ticket sale date: February 18

Friday, April 17 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Brentano Quartet with Peter Serkin, piano, and Richard Lalli, reciter
Ticket sale date: March 4

Saturday, April 18 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Quatuor Mosaïques
Ticket sale date: March 4

Friday, April 24 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Geringas Baryton Trio
Ticket sale date: March 11

Saturday, April 29 at 10:00am (Coolidge Auditorium)
Cello Workshop with David Geringas
No tickets required

Thursday, April 30 at 7:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Lecture/Recital: Ludwig Sémerjian -- Touching History–Pianos in Perspective, with Dr. Frank P. Baer, curator of historic instruments at Nuremberg’s German National Museum
No tickets required

Friday, May 1 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Ludwig Sémerjian, fortepiano
Ticket sale date: March 18

Friday, May 8 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Ethos Percussion Group with Bernard Woma, Ghanaian xylophone; and M’bembe Bangoura, Guinean drum
Ticket sale date: March 25

Thursday, May 21 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Trio Apollon
Ticket sale date: April 8

Friday, May 29 at 8:00pm (Coolidge Auditorium)
Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine with Carole Farley, soprano and John Constable, piano
Ticket sale date: April 15


Films at the Pickford Theater

Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd floor, James Madison Building, Library of Congress
Reservations may be made one week before each screening by calling 202-707-5677 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Reserved seats must be claimed at least 10 minutes before show time, after which standbys will admitted. Programs subject to change without notice.

Friday, October 31
Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006) Documentary film on responses to Messiaen’s music by Paul Festa

FILM SERIES: Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Fall at the Nation’s Library
Curated by Norman Middleton, Music Division

Monday evenings at 7:00pm; No tickets required, but seating is limited.

Frank Zappa Mini-Film Festival

Monday, November 17
Heartland Reggae (1980)

Monday, November 24
Uncle Meat (1987)

Monday, December 1
(DOUBLE BILL)
The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)
Does Humor Belong in Music? (1985)

Monday, December 8
200 Motels (1971) 98 minutes.

Tuesday, December 9
A Labyrinth of Time (2006)

Monday, December 15
Stop Making Sense (1984)

FILM SERIES: Jazz in the Spring at the Nation’s Library
Curated by Larry Appelbaum, Music Division

Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm; No tickets required, but seating is limited.

Wednesdays, April 1-22 (To be announced)


Insights: Exploring the Collections

Thursday, February 26, at 8:00 p.m.
Curtis on Tour, Igor Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du soldat”
No tickets required

Saturday, May 9, at 2:00 p.m.
The Revolutionary Violin, Peter Sheppard-Skaerved
No tickets required

Saturday, May 23 at 2:00 p.m.
Bach in Cremona, Nicholas Kitchen
No tickets required


Homegrown: The Music of America 2008

A free noontime concert series presented by the American Folklife Center and the Music Division of the Library of Congress, in cooperation with the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. All concerts are in the Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building. No tickets required

August 20 at noon (Coolidge Auditorium)
Gary Haleamau – Traditional Hawaiian Music from Las Vegas

September 17 at noon (Coolidge Auditorium)
The Bajich Brothers – Tamburitza Music from Kansas

October 2 at noon (Coolidge Auditorium)
Bar J Wranglers–Cowboy Music from Wyoming

November 19 at noon (Coolidge Auditorium)
Surati–Classical and Folk Indian Dance from New Jersey