SEASON 95 2019-2020 loc.gov/concerts LIBRARY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONCERTS THE FROM VISION & LEGACY
Concerts from the Library of Congress returns for a A May mini-fest salutes an original American voice, composer and spectacular 95th season, packedSEASON with an impressive pianist Billy Strayhorn, in concerts for big band 95and the Bill Charlap and richly diverse roster of more than 95 free events: Trio plus Jon Faddis and Cécile McLorin Salvant, complemented by concerts, lectures, films, panels, conversations with filmscreenings and a symposium. Other jazz luminaries—musicians, artists, and more. scholars and filmmakers—include composer-performers Chucho Valdés, Oliver Lake and drummer, bandleader and three-time GRAMMY winner Throughout this season, our concerts will celebrate Terri Lyne Carrington. extraordinary women: performers, composers and donors. The striking young woman on our cover, From October to July, we present an exceptional group of chamber Leonora Jackson McKim, was all three. Her bold, direct orchestras performing music both old and new, including Concerto K ln, gaze shows the confidence of a brilliant American the International Contemporary Ensemble, Asko | Sch nberg, the Sphinx violinist who won international acclaim making her Virtuosi and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Unique programs in dance, debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at age 18. As artist pop and music theater offer the chance to engage with manuscripts, and philanthropist, her vision created a vibrant legacy musicians, artifacts and ideas. Designed to invigorate and intrigue, these at the Library, an endowment that has funded more are experiences that can only be found at the Library of Congress. than 80 commissions for violin and piano. Can you afford to miss them? Vision & Legacy is our season theme for a remarkable lineup of major soloists: Midori, Leila Josefowicz, Miranda Cuckson—and that’s just the violinists—violist Tabea Zimmermann, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, and many others. Composers Tamar Diesendruck and PLAYLIST Suzanne Farrin will introduce the world premieres of their new Library commissions. 2 SEASON 95
Two adventurous festivals offer 4 A LEGACY OF GIVING immersive encounters with 6 FALL CONCERTS EN AT 250 treasures from the Library’s music OV collections. Beethoven at 250 32 COUNTERPOINTS TH launches in February and runs E through 2020, opening with the E 42 BEETHOVEN AT 250 B Phaeton Trio and featuring the Takács Quartet and the stellar 44 SPRING CONCERTS Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout 82 SEASON AT A GLANCE and violinist Isabelle Faust in a 83 TICKETING 2 special July concert. 3 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, our founding benefactor, built the Library’s superb concert hall and endowed the concert series, inaugurating a distinguished commissioning tradition and establishing the Library as a presenter on the international stage. Her prescient focus on sound and technology ensured the exceptional acoustics of the Coolidge Auditorium and initiated a decades-long broadcast series that created an audience for chamber music across America. A LEGACY Gertrude Clarke Whittall’s vision for the concert series also encompassed a number of rich gifts: the incomparable Stradivari instruments, the handsome Whittall Pavilion, Coolidge and a foundation that supported not only concerts but the purchase of a treasure trove of holograph manuscripts by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others. She also endowed the Library’s Poetry and OF GIVING Literature Foundation. In our 95-year Leonora Jackson McKim was acknowledged as a violin virtuoso in Europe and America while still in her history, the major teens. She achieved a degree of recognition rare for any American artist of her time. Her McKim Fund has donors to the commissioned more than 80 works for violin and piano Library’s concert from American composers. Whittall series have been Carolyn Royall Just practiced law in the District of Columbia for nearly fifty years. A violist and women. Each one GIVE enthusiastic amateur chamber musician, she enjoyed meeting new musical partners in her extensive travels. Her bequest has supported had a compelling st ONLINE classical music concerts from the Baroque to the 21 century. vision for the role loc.gov/ concerts/ Dina Koston, an accomplished pianist and composer, studied with of the Library supportus major figures like Mieczysław Horszowski, Nadia or contact Boulanger and Luciano Berio. She was a significant Jan Lauridsen, McKim of Congress in Assistant Chief, figure in the musical life of the nation’s capital, a Music Division forceful advocate for new music who co-founded and at 202-707-5503 | American cultural [email protected] co-directed the Theater Chamber Players with Leon Fleisher. life and gave
Dynamic, creative and forward-thinking, these generously to benefactors established funds that helped to shape, make it a reality. sustain and support the Library’s concerts for more than nine decades. Their vision has become our legacy.
Koston FORWARD-THINKING 4 CREATIVE DYNAMIC 5 SATURDAY OPENING NIGHT! OCT 12 8:00 PM CHUCHO VALDÉS: Coolidge Auditorium JAZZ BATÁ
One of the most influential jazz figures of the past half century, the prodigious Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader Chucho Valdés opens our spectacular 2019-2020 season. Valdés summons the spirits of many musical cultures with Jazz Batá, an “incendiary, percussion-rich” (SF Jazz) mix melding Yoruban sacred music from West Africa, Cuban dance rhythms and jazz influences both vintage and avant-garde. Here the tall, hourglass- shaped batá drums used in Santería ceremonies evoke ancestors including Ravel, Miles Davis and Cecil Taylor. And from the golden age of Havana’s music in the 1950s, a danz n mambo recalls a tune played by Valdés’ father, Ramon “Bebo” Valdés. Winner of six GRAMMYs and three Latin GRAMMYs, Chucho Valdés is “a pianist of imperial command, possessed of a dazzling, deceptively casual virtuosity” (New York Times).
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9 Photo credit: Chris Sorensen Sorensen Chris credit: Photo The Davies RICHARD BOOTHBY, VIOLS VIOLS BOOTHBY, RICHARD , London), Davies conjures breathtaking colors and colors breathtaking conjures Davies London), , AND ). Partnering with “the finest viol consort on the planet” IESTYN DAVIES DAVIES IESTYN Evening Standard Evening Independent ( WITH COUNTERTENOR These stars of the early music world dazzle in a striking range of repertoire spanning four centuries. hear You’ll English masters old and new: pieces Byrd, by Purcell and Jenkins from the heyday of the viol to songs Michael by Nyman. Arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare and a “vocal concerto” Johann by Christoph Bach offer a spotlight for a singer of “rapturous virtuosity and uncanny beauty” ( timbres: a palette perfect for a moment in the sunlit stillness of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Silent Noon”. FRETWORK FRETWORK STADLEN, SAM LEVINE, JOANNA MORIKAWA, ASAKO ASHTON EMILY Fretwork Conversation with the with Conversation PM 6:30 Pavilion, Whittall PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT Artists
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JENKINS GESUALDO J.C. BYRD WILLIAMS VAUGHAN HANDEL HANDEL NYMAN NYMAN LAWES GIBBONS Coolidge Auditorium 16 8:00 OCT PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 8 FRIDAY OCT 18 AROD QUARTET 8:00 PM JORDAN VICTORIA and ALEXANDRE VU, VIOLINS Coolidge Auditorium TANGUY PARISOT, VIOLA SAMY RACHID, CELLO
The young Paris-based Arod Quartet has taken the world by storm since winning the first prize in the 2016 ARD International Competition in Munich. The group has appeared already at prestigious venues such as the Auditorium of the Louvre, the Verbier Festival and Carnegie Hall. The Arod Quartet takes its name from Legolas’ horse in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy; in Tolkien’s mythic Rohirric language, Arod means “swift.” Make sure you see them before they fly away!
PROGRAM SCHUBERT Quartet no. 4 in C major, D. 46
WEBERN Langsamer Satz
ZEMLINSKY String Quartet no. 2, op. 15
PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists Arod Quartet Borggreve credit:Photo Marco Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 10 @librarycongress 11 FRIDAY OCT 25 TANK AND THE BANGAS 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium
Coming from New Orleans, Tank and The Bangas grew up surrounded by grand musical traditions. Steeped in a rich mix of styles, the group has a rare knack for combining fiery soul, deft hip hop, deep- groove R & B and subtle jazz into one dazzling cohesive whole, evoking the scope of their hometown music while retaining a distinctive feel all its own. Powerhouse singer and poet Tarriona “Tank” Ball is a “protean storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and a two-time winner of the National Slam Poetry Championship. Her vivid charisma helped the band win NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Concert Contest by unanimous acclaim—beating out 6,000 competitors. Since then their reach has exploded: an ever-widening tour path recently took in a spot with Jimmy Fallon and concerts in 11 European cities. Rolling Stone writes, “Seeing a Tank and The Bangas show is an exercise in positivity.” And as one fan put it: “If you can’t dig this show, you should probably take up stamp collecting.” Photo credit:Photo Cheuse Josh Tank and The Bangas
12 @librarycongress 13 MONDAY OCT 28 AS EVER, OSCAR: 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium LETTERS AND LYRICS OF OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II JON KALBFLEISCH, MUSIC DIRECTOR TRACY LYNN OLIVERA, SOPRANO AWA SAL SECKA, MEZZO SOPRANO BEN PATTISON, TENOR CHRISTOPHER M. RICHARDSON, BASS/BARITONE MARK HOROWITZ, NARRATOR AND HARRY WINTER AS OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Oscar Hammerstein virtually invented the modern musical with his lyrics and librettos for Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Cinderella, and The Sound of Music. The Library is home to the Hammerstein Collection, which includes over 20,000 letters from and to Oscar. Mark Horowitz has designed a concert that intersperses readings from these letters with songs that relate to them. You’ll hear well-known and much- loved songs while getting rare insights into the extraordinary man behind them.
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PRE-CONCERT “Inside the Envelope: Behind the Scenes with Oscar Photo credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library Photograph Newspaper Congress and the Sun of World-Telegram York credit:Photo New Hammerstein Correspondence” Mark Horowitz, Music Division (and former Kluge Staff Fellow) Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM
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OCT FOUNDER’S DAY 30 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium QUICKSILVER ROBERT MEALY AND JULIE ANDRIJESKI, VIOLINS AND DIRECTORS DOMINIC TERESI, DULCIAN AVI STEIN, HARPSICHORD AND ORGAN PROGRAM GREG INGLES, SACKBUT BACH’S LIBRARY WITH GUEST JOHN LENTI, THEORBO AND BAROQUE GUITAR WECKMANN Sonata no. 9 à 4 Sonata no. 2 à 4
ROSENMÜLLER Sonata in D minor à 4 Sonata in E minor à 2
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PACHELBEL J.S. Bach was very much aware of his musical heritage, especially of Sonata in E minor à 2 those German composers who had come before him. Quicksilver’s th VIERDANCK program explores the extraordinarily inventive 17 -century music Canzon in C major, no. 21 that influenced Bach’s development. From Northern Germany, the elaborate inventions of masters like Dieterich Buxtehude and BUXTEHUDE the highly imaginative Weckmann caught Bach’s imagination and Prelude in G minor, BuxWV 163 prompted him to make his epic hike to L beck. From Southern Germany, Quicksilver investigates the ingenious chamber music of FUX J.J. Fux as well as the elegant French-influenced dance music of Sonata à 4 in G minor Johann Pachelbel and the virtuosic inventions of Johann Schmeltzer KERLL and H.I.F. von Biber. And from Leipzig itself we will hear from the Sonata à 2 eloquent Johann Rosenm ller —a man who would have been Bach’s predecessor at the Thomaskirche had he not had to flee the city due SCHMELTZER to persecution. Sonata à 4 in G major, “La Carolietta”
“Quicksilver signifies something unpredictable and swiftly PRE-CONCERT responsive. It’s the perfect name for an ensemble that revels Conversation with the Artists in music of the highest quality—and that demands exceptional 16 Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM instrumental skills.” (Gramophone) 17
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PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT PROGRAM Global cultural ambassador, activist, ambassador, cultural Global musician a and educator music dedicated who is never at rest, Midori brings dynamic to insight expressive an and innovation one her made have performances that her her of soloists violin preeminent the of women on focus our part of As generation. composers, Midori has created a program female living prominent by pieces with new Diesendruck’s Tamar composers. on premiered be Library commission will earlier an includes also which program, this Library commission Sofia by Gubaidulina.
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14 7:00 Coolidge Auditorium NOV Lewis was the first African-American artist to appear as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. His fans will also know his work as an actor in television hits Bloods Blue Blacklist, like The as Senator Ed Davis in Scandal. His storied career has been filled with major performances of memorable roles, on Broadway and off: John in Miss Saigon Baritone Norm Lewis brings a glorious a brings Lewis Baritone Norm voice, ineffable charm and warmth to the Coolidge for an intimate cabaret concert of great show music. Hailed as “one of the most reliably impressive voices ( on Broadway,” world’s theater music the of one is Lewis men. leading most sought-after Joe in the New Philharmonic’s York Show Boat
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“CHOPIN: THE RAPHAEL OF THE PIANO” CHOPIN CHOPIN
16 2:00 Coolidge Auditorium NOV PROGRAM Alan Walker, the renowned biographer biographer renowned the Walker, Alan of Franz Liszt, returns to the Library with a new life of Chopin. Walker will speak and about Life A his Chopin: book Fryderyk Times Book Review Book interweaves elegantly that polyphonic work also will talk Walker’s strands.” multiple holdings, Chopin Library’s the address and pianist Valerie Tryon will then offer a event The Chopin. by works performance of will be followed a book by signing.
SATURDAY 22 WEDNESDAY NOV 20 IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 8:00 PM JÖRG WIDMANN, CLARINET AND CONDUCTOR Coolidge Auditorium CLARON MCFADDEN, SOPRANO
Known for mixing traditional repertoire with new commissions and collaborating with everyone from DJs to dance PROGRAM companies, the Irish Chamber Orchestra pushes the MENDELSSOHN boundaries of what a chamber orchestra can do. Highlights String Symphony no. 8 in D major include American soprano Claron McFadden’s performance of one of conductor/composer J rg Widmann’s own JÖRG WIDMANN Versuch ber die Fuge compositions, and Widmann will perform as the clarinetist in a 180 beats per minute string orchestra version of Weber’s clarinet quintet. MOZART PRE-CONCERT Adagio und Fuge in C minor, K. 546 Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, op. 34, J.182
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The Strad 23 8:00 Coolidge Auditorium NOV
PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT PROGRAM “Josefowicz is magnificent…whether negotiating ferocious ferocious negotiating magnificent…whether is “Josefowicz wonder.” lyrical gentle with playing or challenges technical ( An advocate of new music and many composers’ top pieces had has American Josefowicz violinistchoice, Leila Adams, John Esa-Pekka Salonen, by her written for Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Steven Mackey, of advocacy passionate Josefowicz’s others. among her in reflected is violin the for music contemporary diverse programs and enthusiasm to perform new works. this orchestras, great world’s the with guest frequent A MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient is joined by program a for Novacek partner John recital longtime her of works Stravinsky, by Janáček, Adams, Knussen and Kurtág.
SATURDAY 26 Maureen McDermottMaureen Phillips Anne-Marie McDermott Kerry McDermottKerry KERRY MCDERMOTT, VIOLIN VIOLIN MCDERMOTT, KERRY MAUREEN MCDERMOTT, CELLO CELLO MCDERMOTT, MAUREEN SUSANNA PHILLIPS,SUSANNA SOPRANO ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT, PIANO PIANO MCDERMOTT, ANNE-MARIE CLARA SCHUMANN AT 200 CLARA AT SCHUMANN Schumann (pg 34) . While her husband Lieder century’s most significant musicians. th , op. 6, selections: for violin and piano, op. 22 , op. 21 and her affecting her and (pg 39) and Nocturne and the piano trio, as well as lesser-known gems
#Declassified 11am, Whittall Pavilion 7, December Saturday, Collection” Library’s the in Schumann “Clara RELATED EVENTSRELATED FOR CLARA 200: SCHUMANN AT Film Theater Pickford 7pm, 5, December Thursday, Spirits Twin anniversary with a program that focuses on her own Impromptu: Le Sabbat Le Impromptu: Scherzo no. 2 in op. C minor, 14 Toccatina
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“An Introduction“An to the Music of Clara Schumann” Division Music Plylar, David PM 6:30 Pavilion, Whittall Artists the with OnstagePost-concert Conversation CLARA SCHUMANN 06 8:00 Coolidge Auditorium DEC compositions; represented are some of the most famous, like the like the piano scherzi variation haunting her in thematically referenced Robert is set, Clara had her own distinctive voice that rings clear inthis homage to one of the 19 NIGHTCAP NIGHTCAP PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT PROGRAM Clara Schumann was an extraordinary pianist, composer, composer, pianist, extraordinary an was Schumann Clara editor and advocate for the music she loved. celebrate We 200 her
FRIDAY 28 WEDNESDAY STRADIVARI ANNIVERSARY DEC 18 8:00 PM MIRÓ QUARTET Coolidge Auditorium DANIEL CHING AND WILLIAM FEDKENHEUER, VIOLINS JOHN LARGESS, VIOLA JOSHUA GINDELE, CELLO WITH RITA SLOAN, PIANO
Our annual Antonio Stradivari Memorial concert reflects the history of string quartets in America. The Mir Quartet salutes a famous predecessor founded by Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Franz Kneisel in 1885. Performing widely in America and in Europe, premiering works by contemporaries like Antonín Dvořák, the Kneisel Quartet became a force in the world of 20th-century chamber music, whose influence still resonates today. Playing the Library’s incomparable Stradivari instruments, the Mir recreates a concert the Kneisel performed at St. Paul’s venerable Schubert Club over a century ago. This special “salon evening” gathers a charming bouquet, sampling works by Mozart, Franck and Glière, adding a Servais showpiece for cello—a staple of Kneisel programs— and as a top note, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” PROGRAM MOZART Quartet in B-flat major, K.458
GLIÈRE Quartet in A major, op. 2, III: Andante con variazioni
FRANCK String Quartet in D major, II: Scherzo: Vivace
SERVAIS Fantasie sur deux airs russes, op. 13
Mir Quartet SCHUBERT Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden,” D. 810 PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists 30 @librarycongress Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 31 COUNTERPOINTS DIVERSITY AND AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE BIRTH OF BROADWAY LECTURES BEN WEST, MUSICAL THEATER ARTIST, HISTORIAN AND These lectures are presented as part of the ongoing FOUNDER OF UNSUNG MUSICALS American Musicological Society lecture series at the Library of Congress Ben West, creator of the new documentary musical TUESDAY series The Show Time! Trilogy, offers two talks on NOV Diversity and the Birth of Broadway.” The first is an 7:00 PM informative and colorful account of the American 12 Montpelier Room musical s early female authors, from vaudeville Recovering the History of the U.S. Immigrant headliner Nora Bayes to legendary hostess Elsa Musical Theater at the Library of Congress Maxwell. Early in the 20th century, amidst the JOHN KOEGEL, PHD, PROFESSOR OF MUSICOLOGY climax of the women s suffrage movement and the CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON aural revolutions of ragtime and jazz, these often overlooked female trailblazers librettists, lyricists, Scholar John Koegel offers insight into composers were instrumental in opening doors for the rich history of non English language future generations and contributing to the genesis immigrant musical theater in the United of an American art form. States. In addition to an examination of the broader trends across a wide range of The second talk concerns early black authors of cultures represented by their own repertories the American musical, where in the first three developed in America, Koegel s work has ranged from German musical theater in New decades of the 20th century, against a backdrop York City to Mexican traditions in Los Angeles, of segregation, social discord, and rampant and beyond. racism, emerged such seminal figures as Duke Koegel Ellington, Bert Williams, and Bob Cole. Rich in
character and rooted in ragtime and jazz, TUESDAY the groundbreaking work of these African MAR American innovators laid the foundation 7:00 PM for both the American popular song and credit:Photo Kris Rogers Montpelier Room the American musical stage. 31 The Uncommon ‘Gift to be Simple:’ Japanese WEDNESDAY American Influence in Appalachian Spring OCT MARTA ROBERTSON, PHD, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC 7:00 PM GETTYSBURG COLLEGE Montpelier Room 23 Professor Marta Robertson looks at the Early Female Authors of iconic ballet Appalachian Spring through the American Musical the lens of Japanese American influences on the initial production, especially via the dancing of Yuriko Kikuchi and the set design WEDNESDAY of Isamu Noguchi. The cultural and political FEB aspects of this will also be considered both 7:00 PM Yuriko and Noguchi had been incarcerated 19 Montpelier Room in internment camps offering varying Early Black Authors of perspectives on the frontier and Americana West aspects of the music and choreography. Harple credit:Photo Miranda the American Musical Robertson 32 @librarycongress 33 COUNTERPOINTS SATURDAY MAR 11:00 AM #DECLASSIFIED 28 Coolidge Auditorium CLOSE-UP ENCOUNTERS WITH ARTIFACTS AND IDEAS Manuscript Music for Men’s Chorus WASHINGTON MEN’S CAMERATA SATURDAY FRANK ALBINDER, MUSIC DIRECTOR DEC JAMES WINTLE, MUSIC DIVISION 11:00 AM James Wintle of the Music Division will introduce a short program 07 Whittall Pavilion of music for men s chorus by American and German composers, “Clara Schumann in the Library’s Collection” all of which the Library holds in manuscript. From the zany McCord’s Menagerie of Irving Fine to the beautiful An Webers CAIT MILLER, MUSIC DIVISION Grabe by Richard Wagner, the Library has it all! Join Frank 2019 marks the 200th birthday of one of history s greatest Albinder and the Washington Men s Camerata for a survey of piano virtuosas: Clara Schumann. The Music Division s holdings music by Barber, Beach, Fine, Arthur Foote, Patty Stair, Wagner document not only her performance career, but her outstanding and more! contributions to composition as well. Join music reference specialist Cait Miller for a discussion of Schumann s extraordinary life and career, brought to life by a display of Schumann materials AT 25 from the Library’s unique collections. VEN 0 HO SATURDAY T E E B SATURDAY APR FEB 11:00 AM 11:00 AM 25 Whittall Pavilion 22 Whittall Pavilion “The Beethoven Complex: Finding Their Light in “Alban Berg in the Library’s Collection” the Shadow of Beethoven, from A.P. Heinrich to KAZEM ABDULLAH, MUSIC DIVISION Johannes Brahms” 1925. The year that Concerts from the Library of Congress was DAVID PLYLAR, MUSIC DIVISION founded and also the year that Alban Berg s Wozzeck was first Explore multiple sides of the Beethoven Complex phenomenon performed. The significance of Wozzeck lies in its success in during the year of his 250th birthday, through the lens of special connecting with its audience and delivering social messages in a collection items. We will start with a look at the musical historic most striking and contemporary manner. The Library of Congress is complex of contemporaneous composers with an interesting fortunate to hold the manuscript of this enduring masterpiece. This and direct Beethoven connection, such as A.P. Heinrich (the #Declassified lecture will examine how the innovative atonal music, American Beethoven ) and Carl Czerny. The second part will classical forms and their allusions, musical symbolism, leitmotifs, and include encounters with materials related to the psychological avant garde compositional techniques produce a musical expression effects of Beethoven s legacy on subsequent composers of powerful enough to capture the complexity, social messages, and stature, like Brahms and Wagner. emotions in the text. Do not miss this rare chance to see Berg s manuscript and delve deeper into this transcendent opera. SATURDAY SATURDAY MAR MAY 11:00 AM 07 Whittall Pavilion 11:00 AM “Rare & Rediscovered: Unearthing 300 Years of Musical 16 Whittall Pavilion Treasures at the Library of Congress” “Fly Space 3: Attack of the Stacks” SUSAN CLERMONT AND PAUL SOMMERFELD, MUSIC DIVISION SOLOMON HAILESELASSIE, MUSIC DIVISION The Music Division is making rare and unique imprints and The Library of Congress is home to some of the richest theatrical manuscripts from c.1500 1800 available to the public digitally and collections in the world. Our production manager Solomon offering specialized guidance on how to find them using databases HaileSelassie leads a virtual adventure through the stacks of the like Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM). Music Division with scripts, director s notes, costume designs, The event will include practical advice for utilizing the Library’s and set designs of the likes of Bob Fosse, Oliver Smith, Peggy resources in addition to displaying some of the unique imprints and Clark, Florence Klotz, Tony Walton, and the newly digitized 34 manuscripts, previously uncatalogued, that can be found here. Federal Theatre Project Collection. 35 HRDY THURSDAY THURSDAY COUNTERPOINTS APR 6:30 PM 23 Pickford Theater Sam Stephenson WRITER AND DOCUMENTARIAN, FOUNDER OF ROCKFISH JAZZ SCHOLARS STEW, INSTITUTE OF LITERATURE & MATERIALS, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAZZ SCHOLAR This year we continue the Library of Congress Jazz Scholars program Stephenson will introduce (with director Sara Fishko) the with talks and activities from a range of voices, including Dan film The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith, and answer Morgenstern, Sherrie Jean Tucker, Sam Stephenson and Terri Lyne questions following the event. Carrington, who will speak about her work as Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee School of Music s Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice (to be announced in the spring). MAY These events and other jazz events listed below are 6:30 PM made possible through the generous support of the Whittall Pavilion Revada Foundation of the Logan Family. 14 Sherrie Jean Tucker, PhD TUESDAY PROFESSOR, AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AND OCT CO-EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL AMERICAN STUDIES, 7:00 PM LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAZZ SCHOLAR Montpelier Room Author of Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of 29 Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Duke, 2014), Library of “Art Kane: Harlem 1958” Congress Jazz Scholar Sherrie Jean Tucker talks about the BENNY GOLSON, SAXOPHONIST AND COMPOSER social culture of mid century jazz and the “all girl” bands of JONATHAN KANE, MUSICIAN AND PHOTOGRAPHER the 1940 s. This event is a pre concert lecture for Fly Higher: LARRY APPELBAUM, MUSIC DIVISION Charlie Parker at 100, Pg. 72. A handsome new art book marks the 60th anniversary of Art Kane s iconic photograph, a glimpse of jazz history documenting A SALUTE TO BILLY STRAYHORN a now legendary gathering of 57 jazz artists on the steps SATURDAY of a Harlem brownstone. Larry Appelbaum talks with the photographer s son, Jonathan Kane, and saxophonist and MAY composer Benny Golson, one of two living musicians captured in 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM this eloquent image. 30 Whittall Pavilion Not only is this photo important to the people in it, but it should be a reminder of where we need to be: together” (Quincy Jones). Billy Strayhorn Symposium KEYNOTE: 5:00 pm * Books will be available for sale. David Hajdu, author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn PANEL: 6:00 pm THURSDAY David Hajdu, moderator NOV Robert G. O Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, 7:00 PM Columbia University 07 Montpelier Room Lisa Barg, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Music of “Reminiscing in Tempo: Some Highlights from Nine McGill University A. Alyce Claerbaut, President, Strayhorn Songs, Inc. Decades with Jazz” Walter van de Leur, Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music, DAN MORGENSTERN, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS JAZZ SCHOLAR University of Amsterdam Dan Morgenstern returns as a Library of Congress Jazz Scholar in the 2019-2020 season, invited to lecture and do Our three day minifestival celebrating the life and work of Billy research in the Music Division s collections in a mini residency Strayhorn includes two remarkable concerts, lectures, a panel underwritten by the Revada Foundation. Jazz historian, author and film screenings: a unique offering curated from the riches of and archivist, former Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at the Billy Strayhorn Collection nearly 8,000 documents, including Rutgers University, and longtime editor of DownBeat magazine, manuscripts, sketches, photographs and business papers. For Morgenstern has made major contributions to jazz criticism our symposium, come hear biographer David Hajdu speak about and scholarship that have set the tone for contemporary jazz Strayhorn s life, and then hear expert Strayhorn scholars examine studies. His talk will reflect on his lifelong fascination with jazz. the composer s career, from his earliest years in Pittsburgh 36 through his 28-year collaboration with Duke Ellington. SATURDAY COUNTERPOINTS FED 2:00 PM MOVIE MUSIC 15 Whittail Pavilion This season we offer three film series in addition to a few standalone “Perfection: The Laurent Crystal Flute, 1807-1848” works in December and January. Our February season is entitled A RICHARD GRAEF, FLUTE Year of Change: Best Picture Nominees of 1968. An eclectic group MURRAY LOEW, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY of films that reflect the general unease of their era, the five Best Picture nominees of 1968 present—through both music and image a CAROL LYNN WARD-BAMFORD, MUSIC DIVISION kaleidoscopic view of American life. LYNN BROSTOFF, PRESERVATION DIRECTORATE The magic of the Laurent Crystal Flute is explored through historical For more information about these films, please visit loc.gov/concerts performance and discussion. The Laurent flute, 1807 to 1848, was
called, “Perfection in Flute Making.” Hear GRAMMY winning flutist THURSDAY Richard Graef as he brings the glass flute to life, and peer inside these crystal beauties with Murray Loew, professor of biomedical DEC engineering at GWU, Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, curator of the flute 7:00 PM collection at the Library of Congress, and Lynn Brostoff, senior 05 Pickford Theater research chemist at the Library of Congress. Twin Spirits (2009) DIRECTED BY PETER MUMFORD AND JOHN CAIRD WEDNESDAY NR, 90 MIN FED Sting and his wife Trudie Styler give life to the letters of •Robert and 7:00 PM Clara Schumann alongside performances of their music by Iain 26 Montpelier Room Burnside, Natalie Clein, Rebecca Evans, Simon Keenlyside, Sergei “A Power Stronger than Itself: the AACM and American Krylov, and Natasha Paremski. Experimental Music” Part of the Clara Schumann at 200 Celebration GEORGE LEWIS, AUTHOR Composer, trombonist, educator and historian George Lewis speaks about his sweeping account of the Association for the Advancement THURSDAY of Creative Musicians, and the impact of this organization on his JAN 6:30 PM Director introduction own work over the years. A MacArthur Fellow and Edwin H. Case 7:00 PM Professor of American Music at Columbia University, Lewis shares an Pickford Theater insider’s perspective on this organization and its ongoing support of 23 experimental music. A Band Called Death (2012) AND Presented in cooperation with The Phillips Collection DIRECTED BY MARK COVINO JEFF HOWLETT NR, 1H 36MIN * Books will be available for sale. Directors Mark Covino and Jeff Howlett will introduce their documentary about the 1970s punk band Death, and their role in
THURSDAY the origins of punk music and the modern renewal of interest in the MAR work of this trio of brothers. 7:00 PM 12 Coolidge Auditorium “Bart k Ballet: a New Life Onstage for a Landmark Coolidge A YEAR OF CHANGE: BEST PICTURE NOMINEES OF 1968
Commission” THURSDAY THURSDAY PAM TANOWITZ, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR OF PAM TANOWITZ DANCE FEB FEB LIBBY SMIGEL, MUSIC DIVISION 7:00 PM 7:00 PM Choreographer Pam Tanowitz talks with the Library’s dance archivist Pickford Theater Pickford Theater Libby Smigel about her Bart k Ballet, a marriage of post modern 06 13 dance vocabulary and one of the Library’s best known commissions. In the Heat of the Night (1967) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Created for the New York City Ballet, the work features eleven DIRECTED BY NORMAN JEWISON DIRECTED BY ARTHUR PENN dancers and a live, onstage performance of Bart k’s complete String NR, 1H 50MIN R, 1H 51MIN Quartet no. 5. Providing a performer’s perspective, a dancer from the spring 2019 NYCB premiere will join the conversation. 39 THURSDAY
COUNTERPOINTSSATURDAY THURSDAY FEB FEB APR 6:30 PM Director introduction 12:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 15 Pickford Theater 20 Pickford Theater 23 Pickford Theater Doctor Dolittle (1967) Guess Who’s The Jazz Loft According to DIRECTED BY RICHARD FLEISCHER Coming to Dinner (1967) W. Eugene Smith (2015) APPROVED, 2H 32MIN DIRECTED BY STANLEY KRAMER NR, 1H 48MIN DIRECTED BY SARA FISHKO THURSDAY NR, 1H 27MIN FEB Director Sara Fishko will introduce her film about the remarkable 7:00 PM archive of W. Eugene Smith and his documentation of mid 27 Pickford Theater century jazz life. Fishko is joined for a Q&A session by Library The Graduate (1967) of Congress Jazz Scholar Sam Stephenson, whose study of the work and influence of photographer W. Eugene Smith has DIRECTED BY MIKE NICHOLS resulted in three books, including The Jazz Loft Project (Knopf, PG, 1H 46MIN 2014), which expanded to include an exhibition, a radio series, website and other events. JAZZ DOCUMENTARIES AT THE LIBRARY A SALUTE TO BILLY STRAYHORN PRESENTED THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE REVADA FOUNDATION OF THE LOGAN FAMILY THE MUSIC OF BILLY STRAYHORN ON FILM In April we celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with a series of Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family three recent documentaries about Miles Davis, Fred Hersch and W. Eugene Smith s jazz loft. The directors of all three will introduce their films. In May we will screen two films that feature the music of Billy Strayhorn as part of our salute to the great musician. All of these jazz films and speakers are presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family. HRDY THURSDAY THURSDAY
APR 6:30 PM Director introduction FRIDAY SATURDAY 7:00 PM Pickford Theater MAY MAY 09 7:00 PM 11:00 AM Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool (2019) Pickford Theater Pickford Theater DIRECTED BY STANLEY NELSON 29 30 NR, 1H 55MIN Paris Blues (1961) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Director Stanley Nelson will introduce his new documentary about DIRECTED BY MARTIN RITT DIRECTED BY OTTO PREMINGER legendary musician Miles Davis. Nelson s film draws on interviews APPROVED, 1H 38MIN NR, 2H 40MIN with luminaries like Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Carlos Santana, The Roots, and Flea.
APR 6:30 PM Director introduction TESORI, GERSHWIN & MORE: OPERAMAKERS 7:00 PM This season we are excited to continue our partnership with the 16 Pickford Theater Washington National Opera (WNO). In March, the WNO will be The Ballad of Fred Hersch (2016) presenting the new opera Blue by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE LAGARDE AND CARRIE LOZANO Thompson, and in May will stage Gershwin s Porgy and Bess. The NR, 1H 14MIN Library now holds the collections of both Jeanine Tesori and George Co director Charlotte Lagarde will introduce her documentary Gershwin, so it is a natural fit to offer some discussions and film about pianist and composer Fred Hersch, a major jazz figure perhaps even performances related to these two works. who has performed at the Library of Congress. 40 Keep an eye out for an announcement about the new events in 2020! A quarter millenium in the making, in 2020 we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven s birth with an adventurous series of events you will only find at the Library of Congress. But we need your help now in order to bring even more great programs as we A BEETHOVANNIVERSARY approach Beethoven s special day. To help encourage everyone, we have created a special donor circle dedicated to these unique offerings. Several generous patrons have already stepped up and underwritten three concerts CELEBRATION in the Winter/Spring of 2020, and we are eager to add some names to the list! 2020 Beethovents so far! These events feature a Beethoven manuscript or The problem is that we can t find just the right name for the donor other one of a kind Beethoventure: circle. We focus grouped the following ideas with our colleagues, but haven t yet found a winner: FEB Ludwig Fan Club (thoven) PHAETON TRIO To Be or Not to Beethoven 07 Old Bay-thoven Club (for the Marylanders out there) While we might not be great at coming up with viable fundraising FEB names, we do excel at offering fascinating programs that will add MIRANDA CUCKSON AND FRIENDS to your appreciation of this iconic composer. We encourage you to take Beethovantage of the opportunity to support even more 21 special Beethovents in the fall of 2020. MAR Just write “Friends of Music/Beethoven” in the memo of your gift, TAKÁCS QUARTET and we will make sure it supports this special programming. We will provide special recognition of our Beethofans, so please join 17 & BEETHOVEN FOR A LATER AGE the team! APR #DECLASSIFIED: CONSIDER MAKING 25 THE BEETHOVEN COMPLEX EN AT 250 OV TH A GIFT TODAY! E MAY E BEETHOVEN’S HAMMERKLAV IER SONATA: B 15 TWO VISIONS GIVE ONLINE JUL FREIBURG BAROQUE ORCHESTRA WI T H loc.gov/concerts/supportus 24 A N D or contact KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT ISABELLE FAUST Jan Lauridsen, Assistant Chief, Music Division @librarycongress at 202-707-5503 | [email protected] 43 THURSDAY JAN 30 DUNEDIN CONSORT 8:00 PM JOHN BUTT, DIRECTOR MEG BRAGLE, MEZZO-SOPRANO Coolidge Auditorium
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PROGRAM J.S. BACH Hear “Bach at his most ravishing” (The Independent) Orchestral Suite in B minor, BWV 1067 in what promises to be an extraordinary concert by Cantata “Widerstehe doch der S nde,” BWV 54 Scotland’s Dunedin Consort. Led by harpsichordist and Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 organist John Butt, a preeminent Bach scholar, the Cantata “Wergn gte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust,” BWV 170 Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 ensemble makes its first Washington appearance with an intimate, elegant band of 11 players, revealing the virtuosic instrumental writing of the composer’s cantatas PRE-CONCERT and concerti, often heard in much larger configurations. This is an exceptional group, with performances marked Conversation with the Artists by what The Times calls “the sheer sense of joy.” Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 44 @librarycongress 45 FRIDAY & SATURDAY JAN FEB 31& 01 ASKO|SCHÖNBERG 8:00 PM REINBERT DE LEEUW, CONDUCTOR Coolidge Auditorium KATRIEN BAERTS, SOPRANO HIROMI KIKUCHI AND JOSEPH PUGLIA, VIOLIN KEN HAKII, VIOLA Photo credit:Photo Gerrit Schreurs Asko|Sch nberg
JAN 31 FEB 01 Asko|Sch nberg, one of the finest new music ensembles in Europe, comes to the Library for a rare visit to the U.S. Presenting PROGRAM PROGRAM two varied programs under the helm of Reinbert de Leeuw and with the assistance of soloists Katrien Baerts, Hiromi Kikuchi, GYÖRGY LIGETI MAURICIO KAGEL Chamber Concerto Die St cke der Windrose, Ken Hakii and Joseph Puglia, Asko|Sch nberg will offer classics th selections of 20 -century literature alongside recent works by living MARTIJN PADDING composers. Dutch composer Martijn Padding will be present to White Eagle speak about his piece, and we will have the first opportunity PRE-CONCERT in the Coolidge to hear selections from Mauricio Kagel’s multi- GYÖRGY KURTÁG Conversation with the Artists directional work for chamber orchestra, Die St cke der Windrose. ...concertante..., op. 42 Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM Let the “parts of the compass” guide you to the Library for these CLAUDE VIVIER sensational works. Bouchara Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, through the generous support of The Netherland-America Foundation and The Performing Arts Fund NL PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists 46 @librarycongress Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 47 WEDNESDAY FEB 05 SKRIDE PIANO QUARTET 8:00 PM BAIBA SKRIDE, VIOLIN Coolidge Auditorium LISE BERTHAUD, VIOLA HARRIET KRIJGH, CELLO LAUMA SKRIDE, PIANO
United by a shared passion for chamber music, the exciting Skride Quartet is made up of four like-minded musicians who have each achieved success as a soloist at the highest level. Latvian violinist Baiba Skride and her pianist sister Lauma have performed together since childhood; they have found enthusiastic partners in French violist Lise Berthaud and Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh. Stable piano quartets can be short-lived, but this one has been in high demand since its founding three years ago, with engagements from major presenters like Vienna’s Musikverein, the Istanbul Music Festival, Wigmore Hall and the Louvre. This “multinational chamber supergroup” (Gramophone) makes its Washington debut in an appealing program of rarities. PROGRAM SCHUBERT Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D. 487
MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet no. 3 in B minor, op. 3
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48 @librarycongress 49 FRIDAY FEB 07 PHAETON TRIO 8:00 PM FRIEDEMANN EICHHORN, VIOLIN Coolidge Auditorium PETER HÖRR, CELLO FLORIAN UHLIG, PIANO
The Phaeton Trio will appear for the first time in the U.S. at the Library. Recently formed by a group of stellar musicians centered in Weimar and Leipzig—Friedemann Eichhorn, violin, Peter H rr, cello, and Florian Uhlig, piano— the trio will reveal the premiere of a new completion of a Beethoven piano trio fragment by Victor Kissine. In contrast with their mythological namesake, the Phaeton Trio maintains control of its musical chariot as they soar through the heavens, setting alight the music of Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
PROGRAM BEETHOVEN/KISSINE Trio Fragment
BEETHOVEN Trio in D major, op. 70/1
MENDELSSOHN Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 49
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“The Life and Legacy of Leonora Jackson McKim” author and historian art Barabaschi, Alessandra PM 6:30 Pavilion, Whittall SCHUMANN KODÁLY AIDA SHIRAZIAIDA HAROLD MELTZER BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN XENAKIS XENAKIS
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PRE-CONCERT PROGRAM resides at the Library. Miranda Cuckson leads a special program honoring honoring program special a leads Cuckson Miranda Stradivari whose McKim, Jackson Leonora violinist violin will be loaned to the Library for this special evening. Mrs. McKim was one of the Library’s great of gift commissioned dozens whose has patrons, works for violin and piano. Highlighted on this program is a variety of works featuring strings from solo violin quartet, piano the including to 3 op. trio, string early
FRIDAY 52 FRIDAY FEB 28 SPHINX VIRTUOSI 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium Described by The New York Times as “first-rate in every way...producing nation’s top Black and Latinx classical soloists. They make their a more beautiful, precise and carefully shaped sound than some fully debut at the Library of Congress in a program rich with gems by professional orchestras” Sphinx Virtuosi has caused a major positive composers of color, including new and important voices such shift in the American classical music landscape since its founding as Jessie Montgomery and Xavier Foley. This concert offers in 2004. This unique self-conducted ensemble is comprised of the something for both seasoned listeners and newcomers.
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XAVIER FOLEY PROGRAM For Justice and Peace ALDEMARO ROMERO JESSIE MONTGOMERY Fuga con Pajarillo Source Code
BARTÓK SCHUBERT Divertimento for String Orchestra String Quartet no. 14, “Death and the Maiden,” D.810: IV. Presto (arr.)
MICHAEL ABELS Global Warming
IRVING FINE Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 54 @librarycongress 55 SATURDAY FEB 29 CONCERTO KÖLN 8:00 PM MAYUMI HIRASAKI, MARCUS HOFFMAN, SHUNSUKE SATO AND EVGENY SVIRIDOV, VIOLIN SOLOISTS Coolidge Auditorium
The splendid Concerto K ln is one of the world’s most admired period instrument orchestras, known for clarity of sound and performances with a palpable sense of the dramatic. This “undeniably exciting” (New York Times) ensemble boasts an PRE-CONCERT impressive range of musical interests, from Bach to Wagner—and Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM a quartet of top-notch concertmasters, all four featured in this brilliant program of German and Italian concerti for the violin.
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HANDEL PROGRAM Concerto for Organ and Strings in F major, op. 4/4, HWV 292 HANDEL GEMINIANI Concerto Grosso in F major, op. 6/2, HWV 320 Concerto Grosso in D minor, “La Folia,” no. 12
J.S. BACH VIVALDI Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Concerto for Four Solo Violins in B minor, op. 3/10, RV 580
VIVALDI Concerto for Strings in A major, RV 158
LOCATELLI 56 Concerto for Four Solo Violins in F major, op. 4/12 57 59 , op. 89 Two Mouwashahs Mouwashahs Two El Male Rachamim (excerpts) Nocturne no. 1 Africa The NightThe of Destiny Miniatures Algerian Two ZAD MOULTAKA ZAD MOULTAKA FAIROUZ MOHAMMED BENABDELJALIL NABIL BENABDALLAH SAINT-SAËNS/MAROUAN DIA SUCCARI SUCCARI DIA SALIM DADA Conversation with the Artist the with Conversation PM 12:30 Pavilion, Whittall PROGRAM PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT “ARABESQUE” “ARABESQUE” BENABDALLAH MAROUAN PIANO , juxtaposing the exoticized exoticized juxtaposing the ,
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Benabdallah 2:00 MAR 14 Coolidge Auditorium Presented in cooperation withPresented the Library’s Division Eastern Middle and African Section, East Near support with and the of the generous the Embassy of Morocco. of Kingdom Pianist Marouan Benabdallah is one of the foremost foremost the of one is Benabdallah Marouan Pianist international the on Morocco native his of representatives stage. For years he has been developing repertoire that goes beyond the canonic works of the literature he has performed to great acclaim, to include music from the Middle East and North finds remarkable the of perform some will Benabdallah Africa. from his explorations, with music composers by from Syria, on Morocco Egypt and Emirates, Arab United Lebanon, Algeria, the program. These pieces are paired with his own solo piano arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ Africa European “Arabesque” with recent music by composers who by music recent with “Arabesque” European takes. own offer their
SATURDAY 58 TUESDAY MAR 17 TAKÁCS QUARTET 8:00 PM EDWARD DUSINBERRE AND HARUMI RHODES, VIOLINS Coolidge Auditorium GERALDINE WALTHER, VIOLA ANDRÁS FEJÉR, CELLO
Now in its 45th year, the eminent Takács Quartet holds an undisputed place at the very peak of the profession. Its appearance in our Beethoven festival highlights one of our treasures, a sketch from the composer’s op. 131 quartet in C-sharp minor. “Performing Op. 131 is always an adventure,” first violinist Edward Dusinberre has written. “Over the course of seven movements, played without a break, Beethoven covers a range of emotions, shifting from one to the other with a minimum of preparation.” For Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Beethoven’s music was “exceedingly moving and emotional.” Like her brother Felix, she was an astute student of his compositions. “We were young during Beethoven’s last years,” she writes in a letter to Felix, “and absorbed his style to a considerable degree.” Nonetheless her string quartet—one of the earliest written by a woman—contains a uniquely individual fantasia-like Romanza, very much a gesture of her own. PROGRAM HAYDN Quartet in C major, op. 33/3, HIII:39
HENSEL String Quartet in E-flat major
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131
EN AT 250 OV PRE-CONCERT TH E E “Beethoven for a Later Age” B Edward Dusinberre, violinist and author
Takács Quartet Tipton credit:Photo Amanda Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 60 @librarycongress 61 WEDNESDAY MAR 18 TABEA ZIMMERMANN 8:00 PM VIOLA Coolidge Auditorium JAVIER PERIANES Music lovers need no introduction to PIANO Tabea Zimmermann: her name is almost synonymous with her instrument, the viola. Admired for an exceptionally rich and sensual tone, this globally acclaimed soloist, a revered professor at the Hans Eisler Music University in Berlin, appears with a partner of equal
stature, Spanish pianist Javier Perianes. Studio credit:Photo Igor Perianes
PROGRAM SCHUBERT Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D. 821
BRAHMS Sonata for viola and piano in E-flat major, op. 120/2
FALLA Siete canci nes populares espa olas
ALBÉNIZ/ZIMMERMANN Tango, op. 165/2
VILLA-LOBOS/PRIMROSE Aria from Bachianas brasileiras no. 5
PIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango
PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 62 @librarycongress Borggreve credit:Photo Marco Zimmermann 65 ’s Dance Magazine Dance , a program of music and . Caleb Teicher is Teicher Caleb . , “Teicher slaps the pallets with lightning lightning with pallets the slaps “Teicher , Counterpoints This not-to-be-missed evening is the product of a brilliant partnership of two rapidly rising stars. The admirable pianist and composer Conrad is a Lincoln Tao Center Emerging Artist who galvanized New Philharmonic York audiences as the soloist in his Everything Must Go Best Emerging Choreographer, with compelling recent works works recent compelling with Choreographer, Best Emerging cited Times in New The rundown York of Best Dance of 2018. Each earns raves for electric performances; together, they astonishing in are dance both composed and improvised. Dancing to S. J. Bach’s Variations Goldberg speed, leaping from one to the other for contrast, matching note forTao, accelerated (NPR note.” Music). Teicher’s comment captures the essence of their collaboration: hard “…it’s to sense the where or ends, dancing starts music the and the where dancing starts and the music ends. They’re just one.”
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Bang on a Can All-Stars 17 8:00 Coolidge Auditorium APR PRE-CONCERT PRE-CONCERT Stole and then write a new piece around Archival it.” audio, found sound and video have inspiredthis interesting program of recent pieces ten by imaginative composers Bang on a Can brings new music from itsprovocative, wide- multi-media project ranging thinkers, musical unconventional” and “inquisitive Seeking BoaC founders Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang conceived a project they describe as “rooted in mystery and parts different composers from asked “We experimentation.” of the music world to find a recording of something that already exists,” Lang says, voice, “a a sound, a faded scrap of melody
FRIDAY 66 FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY MAY 01 & 02 FLUX QUARTET 9:00 PM 2:00 PM TOM CHIU AND CONRAD HARRIS, VIOLINS Coolidge Auditorium MAX MANDEL, VIOLA AND FELIX FAN, CELLO WITH OLIVER LAKE, SAXOPHONE AND DONAL FOX, PIANO MAY 01 library late MAY 02 PROGRAM PROGRAM ROSCOE MITCHELL 9/9/99 Lake CONLON NANCARROW String Quartet no. 3 ORNETTE COLEMAN A Dedication to Poets and GIACINTO SCELSI Writers String Quartet no. 2
LEROY JENKINS ANTON WEBERN Revival 5 Movements for String Quartet
IANNIS XENAKIS ELIZABETH OGONEK Tetras Running at Still Life
OLIVER LAKE MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS Movements, Turns and Switches Duet for Violin and Piano
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With a repertoire highlighted by over 100 premieres, Flux displays PRE-CONCERT impressive versatility across an arresting spectrum of music, Conversation with the Artists leading to unconventional collaborations: soundtracks for 3-D Whittall Pavilion, 12:30 PM films with digital collective The Openended Group; recording a fully notated composition by avant balloonist Judy Dunaway; and performing Béla Bart k’s String Quartet no. 5 as the onstage band for a new Pam Tanowitz ballet.
Experience a pair of concerts to invigorate and intrigue: on Friday evening, a program leaning toward experimental jazz features saxophonist and composer, painter and poet Oliver Lake as guest artist. Just hours later, come back for an afternoon of 20th-century iconoclasts and visionaries, including Nancarrow and Scelsi. Photo credit: Iannis Delatolis credit: Delatolis Photo Iannis 68 @librarycongress Flux Quartet 69 FRIDAY MAY 08 INTERNATIONAL 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE WITH SUZANNE FARRIN, ONDES MARTENOT
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to the Library with a concert of new and recent works by vibrant composers on the scene, including Thorvaldsdottir, Fure and Farrin, whose new commission from the Library and ICE will receive its regional premiere. Farrin is also an accomplished ondist, and she will perform alongside the musicians of ICE in several works PROGRAM featuring the ondes Martenot—a fantastic early electronic cousin ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR of the Theremin—including her own new work and a work for ondes Sequences Martenot and piano by Olivier Messiaen, put together posthumously by his widow Yvonne Loriod. The program finishes with Gubaidulina’s SUZANNE FARRIN classic ensemble work from 1971, Concordanza. New Work Co-commissioned by The Library of Congress and ICE Hypersea
ASHLEY FURE Something to Hunt
OLIVIER MESSIAEN/YVONNE LORIOD Feuillets inédits
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Concordanza
PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM
International Contemporary Ensemble
70 @librarycongress 71 THURSDAY MAY 14 FLY HIGHER: 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium CHARLIE PARKER @ 100 CO-MUSICAL DIRECTORS: RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA AND TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON
Fly Higher brings a septet of stars for a centennial tribute to jazz legend and bebop pioneer Charlie (“Bird’) Parker. Considered “one of the finest saxophonists going” (Pitchfork), Rudresh Mahanthappa partners with three-time GRAMMY-winning drummer, composer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington to lead a stunning lineup for the project: Charenée Wade (vocals), Adam O’Farrill (trumpet), Kris Davis (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) and Kassa Overall, (DJ). Honoring Parker’s musical legacy but looking beyond it, their concert tracks the impact of an artist whose innovations as a player and composer changed the path of jazz— and powerfully influenced the evolution of new music that would become pop, rock and hip hop.
Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family
PRE-CONCERT Lecture Sherrie Jean Tucker, PhD, Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas and co-editor of the journal American Studies; Library of Congress Jazz Scholar
Author of Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Duke, 2014), Library of Congress Jazz Scholar Sherrie Jean Tucker talks about the social culture of mid-century jazz and the “all-girl” bands of the 1940s.
Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM 72 Parker 73 FRIDAY MAY AT 25 VEN 0 15 HO BEETHOVEN’S T E 8:00 PM E B Coolidge Auditorium HAMMERKLAVIER SONATA: PROGRAM BEETHOVEN TWO VISIONS Sonata in B-flat major, “Hammerklavier,” op. 106 ADAM GOLKA, PIANO
BEETHOVEN/PLYLAR VERONA STRING QUARTET Sonata in B-flat major, “Hammerklavier,” op. 106, JONATHAN ONG AND DOROTHY RO, VIOLINS transcribed for string quartet ABIGAIL ROJANSKY, VIOLA JONATHAN DORMAND, CELLO
Pianist Adam Golka and the Verona Quartet present an intensive focus on Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” sonata: two visions of the work in back-to-back performances, with David Plylar’s transcription for string quartet followed by the composer’s original version for piano. Reviewing Franz Liszt’s 1836 likely premiere of the sonata nearly a decade after Beethoven’s death, Hector Berlioz called it “a sublime poem that until this day Golka Frank credit:Photo Jurgen was but the riddle of the sphinx for nearly all pianists.” Massive in scale, extraordinary in concept and design, the sonata still provides formidable challenges not only for players but for listeners, carrying harmonic and formal innovations that remain astonishing for modern audiences. Through the revelatory medium of transcription, refracting musical ideas through a prism of new timbres and techniques, our concert offers an immersive experience of the “Hammerklavier”—perhaps still a riddle—and illuminates a transcendant masterwork.
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Our Salute to Strayhorn celebrates the music and legacy of an original American voice, and the addition of his papers to the Library’s major holdings in jazz. This three-day minifestival presents two remarkable concerts, lectures, a panel and film screenings: a unique offering curated from the riches of the Billy Strayhorn Collection—nearly 8,000 documents, including manuscripts, sketches, photographs and business papers. Expert Strayhorn scholars examine the composer’s career, from his earliest years in Pittsburgh through his 28- year collaboration with Duke Ellington. And our Pickford Theater will be screening Paris Blues and Anatomy of a Murder, for a look at Strayhorn’s representation in the realm of film. Loren Schoenberg, Senior Scholar at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, has delved into the archives to program a wonderful big- band evening that will bring to life both great Strayhorn classics and a few sparkling gems heard for the first time.
Presented through the generous support of the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family Photo credit: William Gottlieb Strayhorn
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SATURDAY 78 FRIDAY EN AT 250 OV JULY TH E E 24 B FREIBURG BAROQUE 8:00 PM Coolidge Auditorium ORCHESTRA The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, which wowed the overflowing KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT, FORTEPIANO audience at its last Library appearance with a performance of all ISABELLE FAUST, VIOLIN of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg concerti, returns with an intense 250th birthday tribute to Beethoven. This time they bring their friends— Kristian Bezuidenhout at the fortepiano and Isabelle Faust on violin—to perform a selection of works drawn from an immensely fruitful period in his life, between 1798 and 1806. In addition to two of his most-loved concerti, we will also hear the lovely Romanze in F major, the manuscript of which resides at the Library. PROGRAM BEETHOVEN Overture to Die Gesch pfe des Prometheus, op. 43 Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor, op. 37 Romanze in F major, op. 50 Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61 PRE-CONCERT Conversation with the Artists Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 PM Borgrove credit:Photo Marco Photo credit: Detlev Schneider Schneider credit:Photo Detlev
Bezuidenhout Faust Photo credit:Photo Bearbetad 80 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra CURATED EXPERIENCES DESIGNED TO INVIGORATE Pre-Concert Nightcap Event SEASON AT A GLANCE Concert Declassified Film Lecture Panel Special Event SAT OCT 12 8 PM Chucho Valdés: Jazz Batá, pg 6 TUE MAR 31 7 PM “Japanese American Influence in Appalachian Spring,” pg 33 WED OCT 16 8 PM Fretwork with Iestyn Davies, pg 8 SAT APR 4 8 PM Conrad Tao And Caleb Teicher, pg 64 FRI OCT 18 8 PM Arod Quartet, pg 10 THU APR 9 7 PM Miles Davis: The Birth Of The Cool, pg 40 WED OCT 23 7 PM “Early Female Authors of the American Musical,” pg 32 THU APR 16 7 PM The Ballad Of Fred Hersch, pg 40 FRI OCT 25 8 PM Tank and The Bangas, pg 12 FRI APR 17 8 PM Bang On A Can All-Stars: Field Recordings, pg 66 MON OCT 28 8 PM An Evening of Oscar Hammerstein II, pg 14 THU APR 23 7 PM The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith, pg 41 TUE OCT 29 7 PM “Art Kane: Harlem 1958,” pg 36 SAT APR 25 11 AM “The Beethoven Complex,” pg 35 WED OCT 30 8 PM FOUNDER’S DAY FRI MAY 1 9 PM library late Quicksilver, pg 16 Flux Quartet with Oliver Lake & Donal Fox, pg 68 SAT NOV 2 8 PM Midori and Ieva Jokubaviciute, pg 18 SAT MAY 2 2 PM Flux Quartet with Donal Fox, pg 68 THU NOV 7 7 PM “Reminiscing In Tempo,” pg 36 FRI MAY 8 8 PM International Contemporary Ensemble, pg 70 TUE NOV 12 7 PM “The History Of Immigrant Musical Theater,” pg 33 THU MAY 14 8 PM Fly Higher: Charlie Parker at 100, pg 72 THU NOV 14 7 PM Cabaret Evening with Norm Lewis, pg 20 FRI MAY 15 8 PM “Hammerklavier: Two Visions,” pg 74 SAT NOV 16 2 PM “Chopin: the Raphael of the Piano,” pg 22 SAT MAY 16 11 AM “Fly Space 3: Attack of the Stacks,” pg 35 WED NOV 20 8 PM Irish Chamber Orchestra, pg 24 THU MAY 28 8 PM SALUTE TO STRAYHORN SAT NOV 23 8 PM Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek, pg 26 Strayhorn Known and Unknown, pg 76 THU DEC 5 7 PM Twin Spirits, pg 39 FRI MAY 29 7 PM Paris Blues, pg 41 FRI DEC 6 8 PM Clara Schumann at 200, pg 28 SAT MAY 30 12 PM Anatomy of A Murder, pg 41 SAT DEC 7 11 AM “Clara Schumann in the Library’s Collection,” pg 34 SAT MAY 30 5 PM SALUTE TO STRAYHORN WED DEC 18 8 PM STRADIVARI ANNIVERSARY Billy Strayhorn Symposium, pg 37 Mir Quartet with Rita Sloan, pg 30 SAT MAY 30 8 PM SALUTE TO STRAYHORN THU JAN 23 7 PM A Band Called Death, pg 34 Bill Charlap Trio, pg 78 THU JAN 30 8 PM Dunedin Consort, pg 44 FRI JUL 24 8 PM Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, pg 80 FRI JAN 31 8 PM Asko|Sch nberg, pg 46 SAT FEB 1 8 PM Asko|Sch nberg, pg 46 WED FEB 5 8 PM Skride Piano Quartet, pg 48
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