All concerts started at 8:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date |
Artist / Event |
Scheduled Program |
| September 10, 2002 at Noon |
TOM PAXTON |
A concert by folk singer and songwriter Tom Paxton, recipient
of the ASCAP Foundation 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk
Music, author of such classics as "I Can't Help But Wonder
Where I'm Bound," "Under American Skies," "Peace
will come, and let it begin with me," and "The Bravest"--a
tribute to the heroes of the New York Police and Fire Department
who died on September 11, 2001.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| September 12, 2002 at Noon |
VIRGINIA GRAND MILITARY BAND and the LC CHORALE |
Loras John Schissel conducts a program of
American band music, including Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" and "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams.
Geoffrey Simon directs the Library of Congress Chorale in the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic" and Stravinsky's choral arrangement of
"Star-Spangled Banner."
|
| September 13, 2002 |
SUZANNE VEGA & FRIENDS |
A concert by New York songwriter Suzanne Vega
and fellow members of the Greenwich Village Songwriter's Exchange
featuring their songs from the Vigil Project, a collection honoring
the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Included is her own "It
Hit Home"--a song expressing "feelings, thoughts and observations
from someone trying to make sense out of something seemingly senseless."
|
| September 19, 2002 at Noon |
MINGO SALDIVAR |
2002 NEA Heritage Fellowship awardee with his
conjunto from Texas.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| September 27, 2002 |
SHIRLEY CAESAR and ensemble
"The First Lady of Gospel" |
Inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame
in 2000 and recognized by President George W. Bush at the White
House as a Black Music Month's Legend Honoree in May 2001 -- one
of but a handful of singers who share the legacy of the legendary
Mahalia Jackson and other revered artists of Gospel music.
In conjunction with the Gospel Symposium. Part of Homegrown:
The Music of America. |
| September 28, 2002 at 3:30pm |
DIXIE HUMMINGBIRDS
"...take you right to the edge and pull you back just in time,
always leaving you wanting a little more." |
One of the greatest Southern Gospel quartets,
the group has been performing continuously for over seventy years
and has been an important influence on pop artists from the Temptations
and James Brown to Stevie Wonder.
In conjunction with the Gospel Symposium. Part of Homegrown:
The Music of America. |
| October 4, 2002 at Noon |
SANTIAGO JIMENEZ, JR. and his
band
"El Chief of Conjunto Music" |
Recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship
Award in 2000, Jimenez is one of the major figures in Tex-Mex border
music, a singer and accordion virtuoso of the first rank who plays
in the traditional style of conjunto --- the accordion-based musical
tradition that originated in south Texas in the fifties --- the
everyday music of working-class Texas-Mexicans and Mexican norteños.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| October 8, 2002 at Noon |
OLD NEW ENGLAND - Contra Dancing
from New Hampshire |
Contra dancing with 2002 NEA Heritage Fellowship
awardee Bob McQuillen and his group, with caller Mary DesRosiers.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| October 17, 2002 |
LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE |
Program includes a new piece created by Liz
Lerman, "Uneasy Dances," with original music by Andy Teirstein.
|
| October 18, 2002 |
LOS ANGELES PIANO QUARTET
"...absolutely splendid..." |
* Harbison: "November 19, 1828"
for piano and string trio
* Turina: Piano Quartet in A Minor, op. 67
* Fauré: Piano Quartet in C Minor, op. 15 |
| October 30, 2002 |
KRISTJAN JÄRVI'S ABSOLUTE
"The ensemble...makes Schoenberg rock and rock Schoenbergian."
|
Founder's Day Concert
Playing music of classical and jazz masters, rock arrangements,
and contemporary music, this electro-acoustic band challenges the
rigid perceptions of what constitutes "serious music."
Celebrating the birth anniversary of the visionary Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge, founder of the Library's concert series, Absolute brings
music by Stravinsky, Michael Daugherty, Jimi Hendrix, and works
by the Absolute members. |
| November 7, 2002 at Noon |
PINETOP PERKINS with the BOB MARGOLIN
BLUES BAND and WILLIE "BIG EYES" SMITH
"[Pinetop Perkins] is a living repository of blues tradition." |
Recipient of the 1999 National Endowment for
the Arts Heritage Award for Traditional Artist, the legendary piano
icon in his late eighties is possibly the last of the great boogie
and blues piano men whose style of playing has influenced three
generations of performers.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| November 8, 2002 at Noon |
VETERANS DAY CONCERT with THE CAPITOL
SYMPHONIC WINDS, Loras John Schissel, Director |
In honor of Veterans Day, the Library of Congress
presents a concert of Sousa marches and other popular patriotic
works. |
| November 13, 2002 at Noon |
CELLICION TRADITIONAL ZUNI DANCERS
from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico |
Cosponsored by the Smithsonian's Museum of
the American Indian.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| November 15, 2002 |
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
"If you didn't know they were American you might have guessed
it, from their technical brilliance and strong attack." |
Contrapuncti from J. S. Bach's Art of
Fugue will be paired with a short companion piece commissioned
from a diverse group of living American composers, including Steven
Mackey, Wynton Marsalis, and Charles Wuorinen. |
| November 21, 2002 |
RODGERS RARITIES - Aaron Gandy, Musical Director |
Sylvia McNair heads a distinguished cast in a centennial tribute
to an American icon, featuring unknown and lesser-known songs
in
the Library's Richard Rodgers Collection. Visit the Collection
at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002002.3.
A co-production with the Smithsonian Institution under the
auspices of the Irving Caesar Lifetime Trust.
|
| December 2, 2002 |
NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG - Michael Barrett and
Steven Blier, Artistic Directors
"...exquisitely paced production seized perfection immediately..." |
America's "Killer B" composers--Samuel
Barber, Amy Beach, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom,
and Paul Bowles--wrote songs full of the hopes, joys, and struggles
of twentieth-century Americans from the working class stiff to the
patrician blue blood, reminders of how much this country has to
sing about. |
| December 18, 2002 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET with the Avalon
String Quartet |
Stradivari Anniversary Concert
Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet is "stunningly original...
an undisputed masterpiece of 20th century avant garde music."
* Seeger: String Quartet
* Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, op. 20
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartet, op.18, no.
1 |
| February 12, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET with Gilbert Kalish, Piano |
* Beethoven: String Quartet, Hess
34 (arrangement of Piano Sonata, op. 14, no. 1)
* Shapey: "Millennium Designs" for Violin and
Piano (McKim commission)
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartet op. 18, no.
3
Pre-concert presentation by Pozzi Escot and Robert Cogan of the
New England Conservatory at 6:30 pm in the Whittall Pavilion. |
| February 14, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
|
Ralph Shapey is "a towering master, a
composer of flinty, astringent and utterly original works."
* Shapey: Quartet no. 10 ("Quartet d'Amore")
(Washington Premiere)
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartets op. 18, nos.
2 & 4 |
| February 21, 2003 |
MOZARTEAN PLAYERS, with Judith Malafronte, Mezzo-soprano
"...leading American exponents of classical instruments...
full-blooded and vigorous playing." |
An evening of keyboard trios by Haydn, Mozart,
and Beethoven (on period instruments); Mozart lieder; and selected
Scottish songs by Haydn and Beethoven, including "The Glancing
of Her Apron" and "Oh! Thou Art the Lad of My Heart, Willy." |
| February 26, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET - with Christopher Oldfather,
Piano |
* Schuller: Duologue for violin and
piano (McKim commission)
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartets, op. 18, nos.
5 & 6
A Master Class with students from the Levine School of Music will
take place on Thursday, February 27 at 7 pm at the Levine School.
|
| February 28, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET |
"[Gunther Schuller] is not just a composer
but a complete man of music."
* Schuller: Quartet no. 4 (Washington Premiere)
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartets, op. 59, nos.
1 & 2 |
| March 15, 2003 |
PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON, Soprano and SOUTHWEST
CHAMBER MUSIC
"...marvelous ability to project melodic shape in the most
fearsome, jagged vocal line..." |
The Washington premiere of Richard Felciano's An American Decameron,
a song cycle based on Studs Terkel's Working and Coming of Age --
"...glimpses of the American panorama from street level...unusual
and affecting..." Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky
Music Foundation in the Library of Congress (rescheduled from October
20, 2001) |
| March 21, 2003 |
TRIO FONTENAY |
Event cancelled. |
| March 28, 2003 at Noon |
THE JEWELS & THE ORIOLES
"Yet another drizzle failed to dampen spirits when the Orioles,
the pioneering R & B group, took the stage with their rousing
doo-wop harmonies" |
Doo-wop legends the Jewels ("Opportunity")
and the Orioles ("It's Too Soon to Know")-who have been
delighting audiences for over four decades with their spirited stylings-come
to the Coolidge for a noontime soul-fest.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America.
|
| April 2, 2003 at Noon |
LEONARDO'S WORKSHOP: the Invention, Art and Science
of Leonardo da Vinci |
This interactive and multimedia presentation
featuring Piffaro, The Renaissance Band, The Washington Revels,
Oran Sandel and Mark Jaster is a celebration of the invention, art
and science of Leonardo da Vinci. Part of the Library's initiative
to provide relevant, stimulating curriculum-based programs for Washington
metropolitan area K-12 students, the noontime presentation is designed
to engage all audiences. |
| April 3, 2003 |
PIFFARO, THE RENAISSANCE BAND
"colorful and secure instrumental style… technical perfection
delivered with verve." |
The elegant sounds of the official, professional
wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods as well
as the rustic entertainments of the peasantry are performed on shawms,
sackbuts, dulcians, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars,
and percussion. |
| April 4, 2003 |
KANSAS CITY CHORALE - Charles Bruffy, Artistic
Director & Conductor
"...a sublime pleasure...beauty of choral tone, at once warm
and pure." |
A program of American choral repertoire including traditional Shaker
and Sacred Harp songs, works of William Billings and Stephen Foster,
Randall Thompson's Alleluia, and new works by Libby Larsen, Stephen
Paulus, and other living American composers. |
| April 8 and 9, 2003 |
BEAUX ARTS TRIO
"Masterful...the sense of discovery was palpable." |
* McKim commission: TBA
* Beethoven: Trio in E-flat Major, op. 70, no. 2
* Lieberman: Trio no.2, op. 77 (2001)
* Mendelssohn: Trio no. 1 in D Minor, op. 49 |
| April 23, 2003 at noon |
JOE DERRANE, Button Accordion |
Joe Derrane, from Randolph, a suburb of Boston,
Massachusetts, is one of the greatest Irish button accordion players
who ever lived. Derrane will be performing with a group of stellar
Irish musicians, including pianist John McCann and sean nos singer
Bridget Fitzgerald.
Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| April 23, 2003 |
DAVITT MORONEY, Harpsichord
"Affectionate, stylish, catchy, sophisticated and virtuosic,
a feast of a lifetime." |
* J. S. Bach: The Six French Suites, BWV 812-817 |
| April 30, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET - with William Purvis, French Horn |
"Richard Wernick is a modern troubadour whose compositions
are as timely as the newspapers and newscasts."
* Wernick: Horn Quintet (World Premiere) Commissioned
by the Verna & Irving Fine Fund in the Library of Congress.
* Beethoven cycle (Part I): String Quartets op. 74 &
op. 59, no. 3
Lecture-demonstration with Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood and
the Juilliard on Thursday, May 1, at 7 pm in the Coolidge Auditorium.
|
| May 1, 2003 at noon |
MAY DAY MORRIS ALE |
Morris dance teams from the Washington, D.C. area and a visiting
team from England will perform traditional Morris dances to celebrate
the first day of May. Informal dancing will take place on the plaza
both before and after the 12-1 p.m. program, when AFC Folklife Specialist
Jennifer Cutting will host singer/collector Tony Barrand and invited
Morris teams performing dances from different regions of England.
Tony Barrand will punctuate the dancing with songs celebrating the
coming of May. The audience will be encouraged to join in the singing,
and to learn some simple dances that will be enjoyable to adults and
children alike. |
| May 2, 2003 |
JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET |
"[Elliott Carter] is America's great musical
poet." * Carter: String Quartet no. 5
* Beethoven cycle (Part II): String Quartets opp. 95 &
127 |
| May 3, 2003 |
TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET
" classical musicians with a rock 'n' roll sensibility and
the improvisational freedom of jazz." |
Formed in 1986, this group (its name derived from Native American
mythology) has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new
trends in chamber music for strings that fuse the classical quartet
esthetic with twentieth-century American popular styles including
jazz, Hendrix, Zappa, R&B, and bluegrass. |
| May 9, 2003 |
JAMES CARTER'S "CHASIN' THE GYPSY" BAND
"A roaring virtuoso...with a showman's wit, bravado, and...
seductive allure." |
James Carter caused a sensation in the mid-'90s
with his high-powered free jazz style that ranges from the "slap
tongue staccato" of the early 1920s tenors and Dixieland to swing,
bop, '50s R&B, and funk-creating a unique sound that causes jazz
purists to wince and lovers of its spirit to rejoice. |
| May 10, 2003 |
YING STRING QUARTET
"a formidable group of siblings... great intelligence and
fervor..." |
* Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat
Major, op. 76, no. 4 ("Sunrise")
* Chinese-American "dim sum": Works by Chen Yi,
Tan Dun, and Bright Sheng
* Dvorák: String Quartet in C Major, op. 61 |
| May 21, 2003 at noon |
H lau O Kekuhi: Hawaiian mele hula 'aiha'a |
National Heritage Fellowship award winners Pualani
and Nalani Kanaka'ole, from Hilo on the big island of Hawai'i, will
be performing mele, a centuries-old art form, weaves music, dance,
and poetry together in telling ancient stories. The sisters will be
bringing a troupe of singers and dancers to demonstrate authentic
mele hula. Hawaii state folklorist John Keoni Fujitani will accompany
the Kanaka'oles. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
May 22, 2003
(rescheduled from May 29)
|
BOB HOPE 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION |
An evening of performances and reminiscences in
honor of the legendary entertainer. A co-presentation of the
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division and the
Music Division of the Library of Congress. |
| June 18, 2003 at noon |
CHARIVARI, Cajun music |
Charivari, from Southwestern Louisiana, is one
of the premier concert and dance bands in Cajun music today. They
take their name from a Cajun wedding custom of raucous merrymaking,
which reflects the spirit of their music. Barry Ancelet, a folklorist
specializing in Cajun culture, would come with the group. Part
of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| July 10, 2003 at noon |
THE SELDOM SCENE, Bluegrass music |
The Seldom Scene began as a group of Washington area bluegrass musicians
getting together once a week to play for fun. Now, over twenty years
later, the "Scene" is widely regarded as one of the nation’s
premier, and groundbreaking, bluegrass bands and its members are regarded
as legendary figures in the acoustic-music world. Part of Capitol
Roots Concert Series 2003. |
| July 16, 2003 at noon |
THE MINNESOTA SCANDINAVIAN ENSEMBLE and BECKY WEIS |
The Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble, formed in
1974 by Leroy Larsen, has for thirty years been researching, performing,
and recording Scandinavian and Scandinavian American music. Becky
Weis, also from Minnesota, is a master of the nyckelharpa and hardingfele,
traditional Swedish and Norwegian fiddles.Folklorist Willie Smyth
will journey from Washington state to introduce the band. Part
of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| August 7, 2003 at noon |
MARIACHI LOS AMIGOS |
Mariachi Los Amigos, founded in 1979, is the Washington area’s
longest existing mariachi ensemble. As its name implies, it was formed
by a group of friends who shared a passion for the lively, extroverted
sound of mariachi, and the wide range of music that it incorporates.
Mariachi originated as a regional style in several western states
of Mexico in the early 1900s, and has since spread throughout the
Americas and beyond. Part of Capitol Roots Concert Series 2003.
|
| August 20, 2003 at noon |
ROBERT TURNER AND THE SILVER HEART SINGERS |
Robert Turner and the Silver Heart Singers are
an outstanding African American ensemble from the Indianapolis, Indiana,
area. Founded forty- two years ago by Turner, they are an area institution,
performing constantly in area churches and for special events throughout
the city. They come highly recommended by Indiana state folklorist
Erin Roth. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| September 11, 2003 at noon |
A LITTLE BIT OF BLUES |
Little Bit of Blues combines the warm
vocals and piedmont guitar-picking of Warner Williams with Jay Summerour’s
soaring harmonica to produce some of the finest blues anywhere. The
pair, both area natives, have played together for more than a decade.
Their credits include the Smithsonian’s Festival of American
Folklife, the National Folk Festival, the Mississippi Valley Blues
Festival, and the nationally broadcast American Roots 4th of July
Festival on the Mall. Part of Capitol Roots Concert Series
2003. |
| September 18, 2003 at noon |
TBA: Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage
Fellowship |
September's program will feature a recipient of
the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship award.
Awardees will be in Washington to receive their awards during the
third week of September. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America.
|
| October 8, 2003 at noon |
WYLIE AND THE WILD WEST |
One of the country's finest Cowboy and Western
ensembles, Wylie and the Wild West is led by Wylie Gustafson, rancher
and champion yodeler from Dusty, Washington. Perennial favorites at
the Cowboy Poetry gathering in Elko Nevada, Wylie & the Wild West
have earned an international reputation through their recordings and
concert appearances. Folklorist Willie Smyth will journey from Washington
state to introduce the band. Part of Homegrown: The Music of
America. |
| November 12, 2003 at noon |
CHUNA MCINTYRE, Yup'ik song & dance |
Chuna McIntyre, who was featured at this year's National Book Festival,
will bring the Nunumpta Yup'ik (eskimo) singers and dancers to present
a program of stories, songs and dances from native Alaska. Born in
the tiny village of Eek on the coast of the Bering Sea, McIntyre uses
traditional stories learned from his grandmother to create contemporary
stories, sounds, and images of Yup'ik culture. Folklorist Suzi Jones
will present the group. Part of Homegrown: The Music of America. |
| To be announced |
A GERSHWIN EVENING WITH DICK HYMAN
"[Dick Hyman is] a man of all seasons in the world of jazz." |
The celebrated jazz pianist and long-time admirer and interpreter
of Gershwin performs and conducts big-band arrangements of Gershwin's
Porgy and Bess. |