1999-2000 Season Schedule
All concerts started at 8:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
| Date |
Artist / Event |
Scheduled Program |
| October 1, 1999 |
BOBBY SHORT & HIS ORCHESTRA |
Songs both unknown and familiar by Cole Porter,
Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and other popular songwriters,
with some rarities from the Library's collections.
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| October 7 and 8, 1999 |
THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET |
* Haydn: Quartet in C Major, op.
76, no. 3 "Emperor"
* Webern: Six Bagatelles, op. 9
* Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
* Beethoven: Quartet in A Minor, op. 132
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October 29, 1999
|
STEPHEN SALTERS, Baritone
Winner of the 1999 Walter W. Naumburg Vocal Competition. |
* Songs/Arias: Galuppi, Dowland,
and Händel
* Schubert: selected Lieder
* Poulenc: Chansons Gaillardes
* Julian Wachner: War Songs (world premiere)
* Songs: Obradors, Montsalvatge, Guastavino, and Villa-Lobos
|
| October 30, 1999 |
DA CAMERA OF HOUSTON
Milagro Vargas, Mezzo-soprano ; Nadine Asin, Flute ; Alan Kay,
Clarinet ; Ida Levin, Violin ; Toby Appel, Viola ; Eric Bartlett,
Cello ; John Feeney, Double Bass ; Sarah Rothenberg, Piano |
Coolidge Anniversary Concert
* Ravel: Chansons Madécasses, for mezzo-soprano,
flute, cello, and piano
* Tsontakis: Heartsounds for violin, viola, doublebass,
piano (Coolidge Foundation commission)
* Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
|
| November 13, 1999 |
THE BEIJING TRIO
Jon Jang, pianist-composer ; JieBing Chen, erhu (Chinese violin)
; Max Roach, trapset drums |
World premiere performance, "The Temple
of the Drum, an offering to Max Roach," commissioned by the
Library of Congress McKim Fund |
| November 17 and 18 and 19,
1999 |
THE MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY |
Key works from the 1930s, including the legendary
Heretic and Frontier, Deep Song and other solos. A dramatic staging
of selected letters of the Graham-Copland correspondence for Appalachian
Spring will precede the performance of this classic ballet, commissioned
by the Library of Congress in 1944. |
December 2, 1999
|
THE EROICA STRING QUARTET
U.S. debut concert of an acclaimed British period-instrument ensemble |
* Mendelssohn: Quartet no. 1 in E-Flat
Major, op. 12
* Beethoven: Quartet in E-Flat Major, op. 74 "Harp"
* Schumann: Quartet in A Major, op. 41, no. 3
|
December 3, 1999
|
THE AMERICAN CHAMBER PLAYERS -
Miles Hoffman, artistic director |
* Schubert: Octet in F-Major, D. 803
* Other works to be announced.
|
| December 10, 1999 |
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG -
Michael Barrett and Stephen Blier, co-artistic directors |
The Great American Songwriting Teams: the Gershwins,
Rodgers & Hart, Lieber and Stoller, Kander and Ebb. |
| December 17, 1999 |
THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET |
* Mendelssohn: Quartet no. 3 in D
Major, op. 44, no. 1
* Bartók: Quartet No. 2
* Brahms: Clarinet Quintet with guest artist Charles Neidich
|
| See Dates at Right ; all shows start at 7:00 p.m.
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JAZZ FILM SERIES
Presented in cooperation with the Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division. |
* January 10, 1999 Louis Prima: The
Wildest
* January 13, 1999 Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
* January 20, 1999 Joe Williams: A Portrait in
Song
and But Then, She's Betty Carter
* January 24, 1999 Jazz 625: Erol Garner, Bill
Evans, & Thelonius Monk
* January 27, 1999 A Man Called Adam (with Louis
Armstrong)
|
| February 3, 2000 |
THE ARTEMIS QUARTET |
* Mozart: Quartet in D Minor, K.
421
* Ligeti: Quartet no. 2
* Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, op. 135
|
February 9, 2000
|
BRANDENBURG ENSEMBLE - Directed
by Jaime Laredo, violin and viola; with Leila Josefowicz, violin;
and Reiko Uchida, piano |
* J.S. Bach: Concerto in D Minor
for Two Violins
* Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
* Zwilich: Romance for violin and piano
|
| February 24 and 25, 2000 |
THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET |
* Beethoven: Quartet in G Major, op.
18, no. 2
* Shostakovich: Quartet no. 15 in E-flat Minor, op. 144
* Mendelssohn: Quartet no. 4 in E Minor, op. 44, no. 2
|
| March 3, 2000 |
ENSEMBLE SARBAND (Sefarad: Music
of Spanish Jews in the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire)
Fadia el-Hage, voice; Ahmet Kadri Rizeli, kemenge, percussion;
Ihsan Özer, kanun; Mehmet Cemal Yesilçay, ud; Vladimir
Ivanoff, percussion, ud, and musical direction. |
(No program available) |
| March 10, 2000 |
ROLF SCHULTE, violin ALAN FEINBERG, piano
WILLIAM PURVIS, french horn |
* Beethoven: Sonata in A Minor for
Piano and Violin, op. 23
* Dina Koston: Duo in Two Parts (commissioned by the McKim
Fund in the Library of Congress, World Premiere)
* Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano Webern
Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 7
* Ligeti: Trio for Piano, Violin, and French Horn (Hommage
à Brahms)
|
| March 18, 2000 |
A CENTENARY CELEBRATION - The Music of Elinor Remick
Warren
Christine Goerke, soprano ; Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano ;
Stanford Olsen, tenor ; Thomas Hampson, baritone ; Craig Rutenberg,
piano |
Songs by "the only woman among the group
of prominent American neo-Romantic composers that include Howard Hanson,
Samuel Barber, and Gian Carlo Menotti." |
| March 24, 2000 |
CONCERTO KÖLN - with soloists Celine Frisch,
harpsichord, and Ludwig Semerjian, piano. |
Period-instrument orchestra from Germany
* Dall'abaco: Concerto à più istrumenti,
op. 5, no. 6
* J.S. Bach: Concerto in D Major for Harpsichord and Strings,
BWV 1054
* Mozart: Concerto for Piano and Strings, K. 414
* Mozart: Divertimento, K. 136
|
| March 31, 2000 |
CONCERTO ITALIANO - Directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini,
harpsichord with Sara Mingardo, contralto.
Francesca Vicari, Violin (G. B. Guadagnini, Parma, 1760) ; Mauro
Lopes Ferreira, Violin (J. Denisot, 18th century) ; Ettore Belli,
Viola (F. Zanoli copy of Amati) ; Luigi Piovano, Cello (G. Scarbi,
1798) ; Luca Cola, Double Bass (G. de Guado, 18th century) ; Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Harpsichord |
* Marini: Diversi generi di Sonate,
Book III, op. 22 (Venice, 1655)
* Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna (Venice 1623)
* Farina: Libro delle Pavane (Dresden 1627)
* Bononcini: Sinfonia da Chiesa a quattro, op. 5 (Bologna,
1687)
* Pergolesi: Salve Regina in F Minor for Alto and Strings
* Legrenzi: La Cetra, op. 10 (Venice, 1682)
* Corelli: Concerto Grosso op. 6, no.4
|
| April 7, 2000 |
LA LUNA - Ensemble for 17th Century Music
Ingrid Matthews and Scott Metcalfe, violins ;
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba, cello ; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord,
organ |
* Sprezzatura: Virtuoso Variations,
Sonatas & Fantasias
Presented under the auspices of the Mae and Irving Jurow Fund
|
| April 21, 2000 |
CARTER BREY, cello and CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY,
piano |
* Beethoven: Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder
Weibchen," op. 66
* Beethoven: Cello Sonata no. 4 in C Major, op. 102, no.
1
* Poulenc: Cello Sonata (1948)
|
April 27 and 28, 2000
|
THE BEAUX ARTS TRIO |
* Beethoven: Variations on "Ich
bin der Schneider Kakadu," op. 121a
* Beethoven: Trio in B-flat major, op. 97, "The Archduke"
* Ravel: Trio in A minor
|
| May 1, 2000 |
THE HAGEN QUARTET |
* Ravel: Quartet in F Major
* Webern: Five Pieces, Op. 5
* Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130
|
| May 11 and 12, 2000 |
THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET with Warren Jones, piano |
* Haydn: Quartet in B-flat Major,
Op. 64, No. 3
* Sur: Berceuse for violin and piano
* Schumann: Piano Quintet
|
| May 19, 2000 |
ROBERT TAUB, piano |
* Haydn: Sonata in E-flat Major,
Hob. XVI:52
* Beethoven: Sonata in E Major, Op. 109
* Babbitt: Canonical Form
* Liszt: Transcendental Etude in F Minor
* Schumann: Frühlingsnacht transcribed by Liszt
* Liszt: Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
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May 22, 2000
|
STEPHEN SONDHEIM SALUTE - 70th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Paul Gemigniani, music director |
A special 70th birthday tribute to a titanic figure in the history
of the American musical theater: a concert version of his rarely-heard
1974 musical, The Frogs, based on the comedy by Aristophanes, and
a selection of Sondheim's favorite songs by other writers, offered
with the composer's personal commentary. |
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