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Image: Studio of Gerard ter Borch II, The Music Lesson, c. 1670, Timken Collection, 1960.6.10Image: Thomas Eakins, Study for "Negro Boy Dancing": The Banjo Player, probably 1877, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.16Image: Thomas Sully, Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely, 1818, Gift of Maude Monell Vetlesen, 1945.9.1Image: Auguste Renoir, Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar, 1898, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.76
The 67th Season of Concerts 2008–2009

Concerts at the National Gallery are open to the public, free of charge. Admittance is on a first-come, first-seated basis, beginning at one half hour before each concert. The entrance at 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW remains open on Sunday until 6:30 p.m. Families with small children may be asked to sit in designated areas. Please note that late entry or reentry of the West Building after 6:30 p.m. is not permitted. For further information, call (202) 842-6941.

For the convenience of concertgoers, the Garden Café remains open until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or to request group reservations for ten or more, call (202) 712-7458.

To subscribe to our weekly concert e-mail newsletter, please fill out our subscription form. Every week during the concert season you will receive information about the upcoming program.

See also the Jazz in the Garden listings.

Frédéric Yonnet (Harmonica)–Duke Ellington Jazz Festival
October 3 at 5:30PM, 7:15PM
Sculpture Garden
)musica(aperta and the National Gallery of Art Vocal Arts Ensemble
October 5 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Mysticism in Spanish music and art from 1500 to the present
Presented in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

Gilles Vonsattel, pianist
October 12 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Music by J. S. Bach, Liszt, Muhly, Rorem, and Schubert
Presented in connection with Spotlight Switzerland

Michele Campanella, pianist
October 15 at 12:10PM
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium

Music by Domenico Scarlatti
Presented in honor of Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples

Festival Strings Lucerne
October 19 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Sarasate
Presented in connection with Spotlight Switzerland

Brazilian Guitar Quartet
October 22 at 12:10PM
West Building Ground Floor, Lecture Hall

Music by Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, and other Brazilian composers

Vienna Piano Trio
October 26 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Music by Haydn, Schubert, and Smetana

Musica ad Rhenum
October 29 at 12:10PM
West Building Ground Floor, Lecture Hall

Seventeenth-century music for recorder, cello, and harpsichord
Presented in honor of Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered

National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble
November 2 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Music by seventeenth-century composers
Presented in honor of Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered

The Coast Orchestra
November 9 at 6:30PM
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium

Silent film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, with live music
Presented in honor of George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings

Euclid String Quartet
November 16 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Quartets by Ades, Beethoven, and Chernin

The Singers' Companye
November 23 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Music by Native American and other American composers
Presented in honor of George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings

Verge Ensemble
November 30 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

New work by Jeffrey Mumford and American composers of the 1950s

Till Fellner, pianist
December 7 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Beethoven Sonata Cycle

New York Opera Society and Soloists from Norway
December 14 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Norwegian Christmas Festival

Alessandra Marc with National Gallery Strings
December 21 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Christmas Concert

National Gallery Orchestra
December 28 at 6:30PM
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Manfred Knoop, conductor
New Year Concert

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