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WINTER/SPRING 2019 GEORGE STEEL HELGA DAVIS

FROM THE CURATOR OF MUSIC Dear Friends, This season I am delighted to welcome performer Helga Davis to the Gardner Museum as our second Visiting Curator of Performing Arts. Helga is bringing her boundless energy and brilliance — and her relationships with some of the most visionary artists of our time — to plan multi-disciplinary performances and surprise pop-ups throughout the Museum. If you sign up with your email (see below), we’ll share all the details as they are finalized. Please join us! — George Steel, Abrams Curator of Music

To get monthly updates about concerts, performances, and more, visit: gardnermuseum.org/signup WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE? MUSIC AT THE GARDNER / WINTER/SPRING 2019

WEEKEND CONCERT SERIES / pg 2 The Gardner Museum’s signature series

BOTTICELLI EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING / pg 4 Special performances responding to the Winter/Spring exhibition

PROKOFIEV’S COMPLETE / pg 7 Gleb Ivanov takes on the astonishing 20th-century keyboard works

THURSDAY EVENING CONCERTS / pg 18 An adventurous mix of contemporary art, music, and performance

RISE / pg 19 Our popular series featuring pop, rock, and hip-hop artists

AT-A-GLANCE / pg 20 CONCERT INFORMATION / inside back cover WEEKEND CONCERT SERIES

SOOBEEN LEE

NIKITA MNDOYANTS

Sunday, January 20, 1:30 pm NIKITA MNDOYANTS, piano BOSTON DEBUT Franz , in E Major, Hob. xvi: 31 (1776) , Sonata No. 32 in , Op. 111 (1822) Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5 (1853) , “For Stephen Sondheim” (1965), “In Memoriam: ” (1981), and “For My Daughter, Nina” (1981) Both and , Nikita Mndoyants rocketed to early stardom in 2016 at the very beginning of his international career with a remarkable first — winning both the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Prokofiev International Competition. 2 Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections. See inside back cover for details.

SECTION A: FLOOR LEVEL & FIRST BALCONY Adults $36, seniors $33, members $24, students & children 7–17 $15.

SECTION B: SECOND & THIRD BALCONIES Adults $31, seniors $28, CHARLIE ALBRIGHT members $19, students & children 7–17 $15.

Sunday, January 27, 1:30 pm SOOBEEN LEE, violin BOSTON DEBUT / WINNER Ludwig van Beethoven, No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3 (1802) Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Sonata No. 1 in , Op. 7 (1885) Béla Bartók, Rhapsody No. 1 (1928) Leonard Bernstein, Violin Sonata (1940) Called “’s hottest violin prodigy,” SooBeen Lee is making an early name for herself in Boston and around the world.

Sunday, February 3, 1:30 pm CHARLIE ALBRIGHT, piano Ludwig van Beethoven, No. 14, “Moonlight” (1801) Leoš Janácˇek, Piano Sonata 1.x.1905 (1905) Gian Carlo Menotti, Ricercare and (The Old Maid and the Thief ) (1953) Vivian Fine, Concertante (1944) Leonard Bernstein, “For Elizabeth B. Ehrman” (1951) Charlie Albright plays a program of music both beloved and unfamiliar.

This concert is generously sponsored by Diane Gipson and Charles Rendeiro. 3 BOTTICELLI EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING Two musical programs have been created to complement the Museum’s special exhibition, Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes, which opens on February 14. The exhibition features Botticelli’s diptych telling the stories of Lucretia and Virginia.

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ACRONYM

OOMPA Sunday, February 10, 1:30 pm ACRONYM La caduta de’ Decemviri Alessandro Scarlatti, La caduta de’ Decemviri (1697)

Cast to be announced Scarlatti’s unrecorded tells the story of Virginia, the hero of Roman republicanism during the tyrannical rule of the 10 men (Decemviri), and the wicked Appius Claudius.

Sunday, February 17, 1:30 pm

(DETAIL), ABOUT 1500 ^ 1500 ABOUT (DETAIL), The City of Women Oompa, spoken word; Helga Davis, performance; Isabella Ensemble, George Steel, conductor

Oompa, On Lucretia WORLD PREMIERE GARDNER MUSEUM COMMISSION Courtney Bryan, Yet Unheard: In Memory of Sandra Bland (2016) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Judith (1708) THE STORY OF VIRGINIA THE STORY Kate Whitley (text by Malala Yousafzai), Speak Out (2017) Barbara Strozzi, È giungerà pur mai (1664) Helga Davis, the Gardner’s second Visiting Curator of Performing Arts, collaborates with Abrams Curator of Music George Steel on a program that tells the stories of women, from Lucretia to Sandra Bland, whose lives

SANDRO BOTTICELLI, and deaths have inspired action against injustice and tyranny. 5 WEEKEND CONCERT SERIES

BORROMEO

GLEB IVANOV Saturday, February 23, 3 pm Sunday, February 24, 1:30 pm BORROMEO STRING QUARTET Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 12 (1829) Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in , Op. 44, No. 2 (1839) , String Quartet (1931) Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950) This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn’s six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, an American composer of extraordinary, forward-looking music.

Sunday, March 3, 1:30 pm BOSTON DEBUT GLEB IVANOV, piano v Complete Piano Sonatas: Part I

Sunday, March 10, 1:30 pm GLEB IVANOV, piano Sergei Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas: Part II SERGEI PROKOFIEV

6 PROKOFIEV’S COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS Sergei Prokofiev was one of the principal coiners of the musical lingua franca of 20th-century music. His piano sonatas, written between 1909 and 1947, are a dazzling catalog of some of his most fascinating (and often-­copied) ideas. This cycle of the complete sonatas is sure to be an exciting and ear-opening tour de force by Gleb Ivanov.

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A FAR CRY NICOLE MITCHELL

Saturday, March 16, 3 pm Sunday, March 17, 1:30 pm A FAR CRY with NICOLE MITCHELL, contralto John Adams, Shaker Loops (1978) Julia Perry, Stabat Mater (1951) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, No. 1 (1955) Jessie Montgomery, Starburst (2012) The Gardner Museum’s beloved Ensemble-in-Residence returns for this program of four American masterpieces, spanning six decades: Julia Perry’s moving Stabat Mater, John Adams’ giddy and hypnotizing Shaker Loops, and the music of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a formidable conductor and composer who collaborated with artists as diverse as Max Roach, Marvin Gaye, , and Melvin Van Peebles. v

ADAMS, PERRY, PERKINSON, MONTGOMERY LEILA JOSEFOWICZ 8 SPECIAL EVENT Saturday, March 23, 3 pm FROM THE TOP: LIVE CONCERT RECORDING special guest host LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, violin A co-presentation of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and From the Top Boston’s long-running radio series provides a national platform for young performers to be heard playing and talking about their interests and lives. The Gardner Museum is delighted to join forces with this great American project as it welcomes Leila Josefowicz as guest host.

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Sunday, March 24, 1:30 pm MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO Vasil Garvanliev, tenor Alexi Kenney & Anna Lee, violins Luosha Fang, violin/viola Hsin-Yun Huang, viola Sujin Lee & Judith Serkin,

Henry Purcell, Chacony (c. 1680) Antonín Dvorˇák, String Sextet in , Op. 48 (1878) , Along the Field (1927) Leonard Bernstein, Andante Contemplativo (1944) , String Quartet in , Op. 36 (1945) This program pairs Britten’s string quartet, an homage to Henry Purcell, with a small Bernstein work, written as a gift for , conductor of the Boston , from the same period. The program, anchored by Dvorˇák’s sextet, is rounded out with a song cycle for violin and voice by Ralph Vaughan Williams. v

MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO BRIDGET KIBBEY 10 Sunday, March 31, 1:30 pm BRIDGET KIBBEY, harp Chad Hoopes & Francisco Fullana, violins Matthew Lipman, viola Brook Speltz, Jasmine Choi, flute Romie de Guise Langlois, clarinet Cecile Chaminade, for Flute (1902) Claude Debussy, Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane (1904) , Introduction and Allegro (1905) Camille Saint-Saëns, Fantaisie for Violin and Harp (1907) André Caplet, Conte Fantastique (1923) Leonard Bernstein, “For Felicia Montealegre” (1948) Virtuoso harpist Bridget Kibbey has assembled an all-star cast of musicians for this performance of spectacular French , including one of Ravel’s most succulent works, and a chamber tone poem by Andre Caplet, who conjures Poe’s “Mask of the Red Death” in his Conte Fantastique.

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BERNSTEIN & KOUSSEVITZKY

Sunday, April 7, 1:30 pm XAVIER FOLEY, BOSTON DEBUT Serge Koussevitzky, Chanson Triste (1906) Leonard Bernstein, “For Serge Koussevitzky” (1943) Xavier Foley, new work Other repertoire to be announced The winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Xavier Foley is blazing a trail as a bassist and composer. Only a few years ago, he won both the Sphinx Competition and the Young Concert Artists Prize. Now he is a resident artist of the Chamber Music Society of ’s CMS Two.

Saturday, April 13, 1:30 pm ^ BOSTON CHILDREN’S CHORUS Program to be announced

The 2018–2019 Boston Children’s Chorus concerts are

XAVIER FOLEY XAVIER generously sponsored by Willa and Taylor Bodman. 13 WEEKEND CONCERT SERIES

Sunday, April 21, 1:30 pm ATTACCA QUARTET BOSTON DEBUT Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2 (1799) Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132, “Heiliger Dankgesang” (1825) Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte (2011) Caroline Shaw, Valencia (2012) Leonard Bernstein (arr. Andrew Yee), from Piano Anniversaries One of America’s most talented young string quartets, Attacca recently completed an exploration of Haydn’s 68 string quartets. They round out this program with two works by Caroline Shaw, the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize. Her work Valencia has become a modern classic. Her work Entr’acte was written in response to Haydn’s Op. 77, No. 2.

Sunday, April 28, 1:30 pm

HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY v The Magic of Venice Ian Watson, director Margot Rood, soprano Aisslinn Nosky, violin Karina Schmitz, viola d’amore Vivaldi, Sinfonia “Il coro delle muse,” rv 149 Vivaldi, Sinfonia in G, rv 146 Vivaldi, Ostro picta, armata spina (introduzione to Gloria, rv 588), rv 642 Vivaldi, for Viola d’amore in D, rv 392

Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin in E Flat, “La tempesta di mare,” rv 98 QUARTET ATTACCA CAROLINE SHAW, 14 15 16 WEEKEND CONCERT SERIES

Sunday, May 5, 1:30 pm IFETAYO ALI, cello BOSTON DEBUT / SPHINX COMPETITION LAUREATE Johannes Brahms, No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38 (1865) Ludwig van Beethoven, Seven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” (from The Magic Flute), WoO 46 (1801) , Pampeana No. 2 for Cello and Piano, Op. 21 (1950) J. S. Bach, Adagio from Toccata in C Major, bwv 564 (c. 1715) At age 15, Ifetayo Ali became the Sphinx Competition Junior Division First-Place Laureate — and she has the remarkable musicianship and magnetic stage presence to back it up. She appeared on the Boston-based NPR program From the Top this season, and now makes a full recital debut with an exciting program.

Sunday, May 12, 1:30 pm MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO Gabriele Carcano, piano Yoojin Jang & Joseph Lin, violins Kei Tojo, viola Sarah Rommel, cello Franz Schubert, Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703 (1820) Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in , Op. 25 (1861) Béla Bartók, String Quartet No. 5 (1934) Leonard Bernstein, Five Anniversaries (1949–1951) ^

The Marlboro musicians bring a program anchored by Bartók’s riveting fifth quartet and Brahms’s first piano quartet. This dynamic program

IFETAYO ALI IFETAYO acts as the finale to the Winter/Spring 2019 season. 17 THURSDAY EVENING CONCERTS Tickets are required and include Museum admission: adults $27, seniors $24, members $17, students & children 7–17 $15.

THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS

Thursday, January 31, 7 pm MAYA BEYSER THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS One of the leading ensembles in America’s “sacred steel” gospel music tradition, this family of musicians makes their pedal steel guitar and lap guitar sing, swing, shout, testify, and raise the roof. These legendary artists are sure to bring down the house.

Thursday, February 28, 6 & 8 pm ’S BLACKSTAR Composer, performer, and MIT professor Evan Ziporyn has created a blockbuster tribute to the late David Bowie, transforming his final album, Blackstar, into a for avant-garde cellist Maya Beyser, backed by the Ambient Orchestra. A special spectacle of light and projection is being created especially for this performance in Calderwood Hall.

v Thursday, May 30, 7 pm MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF A Woman’s Worth Celebrate the power and stories of women with soulful and intimate performances from local artists and Grammy-nominated singer,

songwriter, and emcee Maimouna Youssef. CALDERWOOD HALL 18 RISE Tickets are required and include Museum admission: adults $27, seniors $24, members $17, students & children 7–17 $15. Limited number of tickets available in member presale November 14–26. Curated by Shea Rose and Simone Scazzocchio, RISE spotlights pop, rock, and hip-hop artists, inviting them to perform in Calderwood Hall, our sonic cube.

Thursday, March 28, 7 pm PERFORMERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

MAYA BEYSER Thursday, April 25, 7 pm PERFORMERS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Thursday Evening Concerts and the RISE music series are generously sponsored by Amy and David Abrams. Media sponsor: Improper Bostonian

19 AT-A-GLANCE

JANUARY IMAGE CREDITS 20 SU NIKITA MNDOYANTS 1:30 pm pg 2 cover: Liza Voll inside cover: Whitney Lawson, 27 SU SOOBEEN LEE 1:30 pm pg 3 Emmanuel Afolabi pg 2: Emil Matveev, Matt Dine 31 TH THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS 7 pm pg 18 pg 3: courtesy Charlie Albright pg 5: Jeff Weeks, Jourdan Christopher FEBRUARY pg 6: Liz Linder, courtesy Taos Chamber Music Group 3 SU CHARLIE ALBRIGHT 1:30 pm pg 3 pg 8: Yoon S. Byun, Kevin King, Vern Evans, Jiyang Chen 10 SU ACRONYM 1:30 pm pg 5 pg 9: Chris Lee pg 10: Pete Checchia and Allen Cohen 17 SU THE CITY OF WOMEN 1:30 pm pg 5 pg 11: Ronald James 23 SA BORROMEO STRING QUARTET 3 pm pg 6 pg 12: courtesy Xavier Foley pg 15: Shervin Lainez, Kait Moreno 24 SU BORROMEO STRING QUARTET 1:30 pm pg 6 pg 16: Kevin Kennedy pg 18: courtesy The Campbell 28 TH DAVID BOWIE’S BLACKSTAR 6 & 8 pm pg 18 Brothers, Justin Knight pg 19: Liza Voll MARCH back cover: Elizabeth Leitzell

3 SU GLEB IVANOV 1:30 pm pg 6

10 SU GLEB IVANOV 1:30 pm pg 6 MAY 16 SA A FAR CRY 3pm pg 8 5 SU IFETAYO ALI 1:30 pm pg 17 17 SU A FAR CRY 1:30 pm pg 8 12 SU MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO 23 SA FROM THE TOP 3 pm pg 9 1:30 pm pg 17 24 SU MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO 30 TH A WOMAN’S WORTH 7 pm pg 18 1:30 pm pg 10

28 TH RISE 7 pm pg 19

31 SU BRIDGET KIBBEY 1:30 pm pg 11 SPRING 2019 MEMBERS CONCERT TICKET PRESALE: APRIL NOVEMBER 14–26 7 SU XAVIER FOLEY 1:30 pm pg 13 Reserve tickets before they become 13 SA BOSTON CHILDREN’S CHORUS available to the general public 1:30 pm pg 13 (November 28). Not a member? 21 SU ATTACCA QUARTET 1:30 pm pg 14 Join today for member discounts

25 TH RISE 7 pm pg 19 and other valuable benefits:

28 SU HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY gardnermuseum.org/join-give 1:30 pm pg 14 20 CONCERT INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE PHONE LINE HOURS HOW TO BUY TICKETS Open daily, 10 am – 4 pm Online: gardnermuseum.org/ Thursday until 6 pm; CLOSED TUESDAY calendar/music* By phone: 617 278 5156* MUSEUM HOURS In person: Visit the Museum and Open daily, 11 am – 5 pm purchase at the admission desk Thursday until 9 pm; CLOSED TUESDAY

*Handling charges apply to these orders. OF NOTE WEEKEND CONCERTS • Seating in Calderwood Hall is open SEATING SECTIONS & PRICES within each seating level. • To request accessible or wheelchair THIRD BALCONY seating, or large-type programs, please Section B call the box office at 617 278 5156. SECOND BALCONY • Seating begins 45 minutes before performance time. Once the performance FIRST BALCONY

CALDERWOOD HALL CALDERWOOD begins, seating is not guaranteed. Section A • Tickets purchased online or by phone FLOOR LEVEL within 14 days of the concert will be held at the admission desk. Section A: adults $36, • For sold-out performances, standby seniors $33, members $24, tickets may be available in the lobby on students & children 7–17 $15 the day of performance. We cannot Section B: adults $31, guarantee availability of standby tickets. seniors $28, members $19, • No refunds or exchanges will be made. students & children 7–17 $15 • Programs are subject to change.

The Weekend Concert Series is generously sponsored in part by Hemenway & Barnes LLP. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: Fitzpatrick Family Concert; Diane Gipson; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Charles Rendeiro; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; Marie Louise and David Scudder Concert; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. The Museum is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts. ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM NON-PROFIT ORG. 25 EVANS WAY BOSTON MA 02115 U.S. POSTAGE PAID GARDNERMUSEUM.ORG PERMIT NO. 1 BOSTON MA

COURTNEY BRYAN (see pg. 5)

MUSIC AT THE GARDNER WINTER/SPRING 2019