Concerts at the Gallery 2017– 2018 National Gallery of Art
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CONCERTS AT THE GALLERY 2017– 2018 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART THE SEVENTY-SIXTH SEASON OF CONCERTS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen As Rod Stewart put it: “Every picture tells a story.” Wandering through the galleries here at the National Gallery, one sees many stories as told through the eyes of the great masters. This season of concerts, you will hear many more stories, as told through music. Experiences from around the world and through the ages will come to life on our stage, helping to foster not only knowledge but also compassion and understanding of what it would be like to walk in someone else’s shoes. From tales of Norway during World War II to personal reflections on choosing a certain path in India or Japan, and from Renaissance Holland and ancient Estonia to Gullah life in South Carolina, the stories are varied but at the same time communicate through a language everyone can understand. Music is the language everyone speaks. cover Alma Thomas, Red Rose Cantata (detail), 1973, National Gallery of Art, Wash- ington, Gift of Vincent Melzac. top left Christophe Sturzenegger, Courtesy of Christophe Sturzenegger. top right Sandeep Das, Photo by Michael Lovett. middle left Lina Bahn, Photo by Isabella Gray. middle right Harlem Symphony Orchestra, Amadi Azikiwe, conductor, Photo courtesy of Harlem Symphony Orchestra. bottom Pomerium, Photo by Mary Anne Ballard 1 OCTOBERSEPTEMBER New York Opera Society Letters from Ruth, a staged concert SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT Celebrating Edvard Munch: Color in Context Music by Gisle Kverndokk, libretto by Aksel-Otto Bull and Gisle Kverndokk, read by Gisle Kverndokk, and based on Ruth Maier’s Diary — A Young Jewish Girl’s Life under Nazism, by Jan Erik Vold. Letters from Ruth was commissioned by Musikkteaterforum, Norway. Born in 1920 in Vienna, Austria, Ruth Maier grew up to be an exceptionally talented MUSIC + ART writer and painter who kept a diary through- out her life. In 1939, she fled to Norway to escape Nazi persecution and lived with Symposium and Composer’s Forum a family in Lillestrøm, just outside Oslo. Featuring Gisle Kverndokk She learned to speak Norwegian fluently, and Aksel-Otto Bull and in 1941, met the young poet Gunvor SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 / 2:00 Hofmo, who became her intimate friend WEST BUILDING LECTURE HALL and lover. They had a stormy relationship that lasted until Ruth was deported with Celebrating Edvard Munch: Color in Context Norwegian Jews in November 1942 and Composer and librettist, Gisle Kverndokk killed in the gas chamber at Auschwitz upon and Aksel-Otto Bull, will be joined by a her arrival. Gunvor went on to become one panel of guests to discuss the creative process of Norway’s greatest poets and kept Ruth’s of bringing Ruth Maier’s story to the stage. diaries. They were discovered after Gunvor’s death in 1995 and edited and published by the Norwegian poet, Jan Erik Vold in 2007. The New York Opera Society will premiere selections from the new opera in a staged concert, in advance of its world premiere. top Gisle Kverndokk, Photo by Anne C. Eriksen right Alisa Jordheim, who will portray Ruth, Photo by Model Day Studio, Oslo 2 MUSIC + ART Pomerium Flemish Musical Mastery in the Age of Bosch and Bloemaert OCTOBER 29, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT Celebrating Bosch to Bloemaert: Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam This concert traces Netherlandish musical style from its first high point in the music of Guillaume Du Fay, an exact contemporary of Rogier van der Weyden, to its final flowering in the works of Orlande de Lassus and Giaches de Wert. 4 OCTOBER Curtis on Tour Dalí Quartet The Nina von Maltzahn Global With Orlando Cotto, percussion Touring Initiative of the Curtis OCTOBER 15, 2017 / 3:30 Institute of Music WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT OCTOBER 1, 2017 / 3:30 The quartet presents Ricardo Lorenz’s WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT Puente Trans-Arábico, Guido López-Gavilan’s Curtis on Tour returns to the National Camerata en Guaguancó, and Jorge Mazón– Gallery of Art to perform string sextet Rico Melao’s Preludio, Danzón y Cha-cha-chá, works. Acclaimed violist and president arranged by Ricardo Lorenz. of the Curtis Institute of Music, Roberto Díaz, performs alongside students from the school. The program includes Kevin Lina Bahn, violin Puts’s Arcana, Mozart’s Grande Sestetto Matt Haimovitz, cello Concertante (after Sinfonia Concertante With Artichoke Dance Company in E-flat Major, K. 364), and Brahms’s Voices of the Ocean Sextet no. 1 in B-flat Major, op. 18. OCTOBER 22, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT The Canales Project, in In Voices of the Ocean, violinist Lina Bahn partnership with TEDxMidAtlantic and cellist Matt Haimovitz join together Lara Downes, piano in an exciting collaboration with choreo- Kaoru Watanabe, shinobue grapher Lynn Neuman and Artichoke bamboo flute Dance Company and poet Melissa Tuckey Sandeep Das, tabla to celebrate music that brings awareness to our oceans. At the core of this immersive OCTOBER 8, 2017 / 3:30 program of amplified string and electronic WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT sounds stands a reimagined version by TEDxMidAtlantic celebrates the power Jordan Nelson of the iconic work by com- of ideas to positively change the world poser George Crumb, Voice of the Whale. and aims to build community by bringing Other works include Adam Borecki’s version together like-minded people who believe of Vivaldi’s Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio in this mission. At such an event, TED and world premieres by composers Daniel Talks and live speakers combine to spark Wohl and Steve Antosca. deep conversation. The Canales Project produces concert programs in which issues of culture and identity are explored through top Dalí Quartet, Photo by Vanessa Briceño-Scherzer. middle left Kaoru Watanabe of The Canales Project, Photo by Bryce music and interaction with excellent artists Craig. middle right Artichoke Dance Company, Photo by who also understand and have lived those Stephen Delas Heras. bottom Lara Downes of The Canales issues. These concerts offer opportunities Project, Photo by Shervin Lainez to hear music from many traditions while incorporating conversations between the artists and the audience in which key questions will be explored. 5 NOVEMBER Orpheus Chamber Orchestra The Crossing With members of ICE NOVEMBER 5, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT NOVEMBER 12, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT A standard-bearer of innovation and artistic excellence, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is “The Crossing: Changing the World One one of the world’s foremost chamber orches- Concert at a Time.”— Philadelphia Inquirer tras. Orpheus rotates musical leadership roles The Crossing is a professional chamber for each work and strives to perform diverse choir dedicated to new music and conducted repertoire through collaboration and open by Donald Nally. This program includes Ted dialogue. This program includes octets by Hearne’s Consent and “What It Might Say” Jean Françaix and Franz Schubert. from The Jeff Quartets, Caroline Shaw’s “To the Hands” from Seven Responses, and David Lang’s The National Anthems. above Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Photo by Matt Dine. opposite page left Mantra Percussion, Photo by Ian Douglas. opposite page right Shannon DeVine of the New York Opera Society, Photo courtesy of Shannon DeVine 6 MUSIC + ART Mantra Percussion Michael Gordon, Timber NOVEMBER 19, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT Celebrating Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” Michael Gordon’s Timber is a tour de New York Opera Society force. Scored for six graduated, amplified, The Three Lives of Rosina Almaviva wooden simantras (2 × 4s), the work NOVEMBER 26, 2017 / 3:30 brings the physicality, endurance, and WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT technique of percussion performance to a new level. Celebrating Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures This program presents a staged reading of the Figaro Trilogy by the New York Opera LACE (Living Art Collective Ensemble) Society as told by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Salon concerts Beaumarchais, Gioachino Rossini, Wolfgang NOVEMBER 24 & 25, 2017 / 2:00 & 4:00 Amadeus Mozart, Raquel Barbieri Vidal, and WEST BUILDING, EAST GARDEN COURT Gisle Kverndokk. Celebrating Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures The plays — and the operas they inspired — popularized fashionable interpretations of One of Fragonard’s models for his famous traditional Spanish clothing, prolonging portraits was Anne Louise Boyvin d’hardan- the vogue for fantasy portraits à l’espagnole court Brillon de Jouy (otherwise known as in France. Mme Brillon), a brilliant musical amateur who hosted a twice-weekly Parisian salon in the 1770s and 1780s. In addition to having numerous works dedicated to her or com- posed for her (most notably Boccherini’s Six Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin, op. 5), she was a composer herself. In a series of performances, LACE replicates Mme Brillon’s salons with music by Boccherini, Mozart, Mme Brillon, and others from the era. 7 DECEMBER Inna Faliks and Daniel Schlosberg Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 6, arranged for piano, four-hands, by Alexander von Zemlinsky DECEMBER 3, 2017 / 3:30 WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT “Adventurous and passionate” (New Yorker), Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative, and poetic artists of her generation. Daniel Schlosberg has been described as an “expert pianist” (Boston Globe), with his performances praised for their “intellect and passion” (Washington Post). In what is sure to be an unusual and memorable event, these musicians perform Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, arranged for piano, four-hands, by Zemlinsky. Caroling in the Rotunda DECEMBER 9, 10, 16 & 17, 2017 / 1:30 & 2:30 The Gallery has a long standing tradition of community caroling in the Rotunda when it is decorated with trees, poinsettias, and lights for the holidays.