MENDELSSOHN on the MALL

January 11 to February 22, 2009

A series of performances, lectures, and displays in commemoration of Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birth anniversary. Presented by the Library of Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, under the gracious patronage of His Excellency Dr. Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador of Germany to the United States. All concerts are free, but tickets are required for the Library of Congress through Ticketmaster.

Sunday, January 11 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
MA'ALOT WIND QUINTET
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sunday, January 18 at 3:00 pm - National Academy of Sciences
WEISS-KAPLAN-NEWMAN TRIO
Sextet for piano and strings, op. 87 (with Amadi Hummings,viola; Sel Kardan, viola; Kurt Muroki, bass)

Sunday, January 18 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA
Kenneth Slowik, guest conductor "Italian" Symphony, op. 90

Sunday, January 25 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
FINE ARTS QUARTET
String Quartets, op. 12 and op. 44, no. 1

Sunday, February 1at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
ULRICH URBAN, piano
Fantasies and Caprices, op. 16; Variations sérieuses, op. 54; Songs without Words

Tuesday, February 3 at 7:00 pm - Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress
SYMPOSIUM: Depression and Creativity
chaired by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center

Friday, February 6 at 8:00 pm - Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress
CYPRESS STRING QUARTET
String Quartet, op. 13

Sunday, February 8 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
JOSEF FEIGELSON, cello
Complete Works for Cello and Piano

Tuesday, February 10 at 8:00 pm - Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress
MIRA TRIO
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Piano Trio, op. 11; Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio, op. 66; Songs without Words and other solo piano works by Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn

Friday, February 13 at 8:00 pm - Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress
ATRIUM QUARTET
String Quartet, op. 80

Sunday, February 15 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON CONCERT CHOIR
Samuel Gordon, conductor Highlights from Mendelssohn’s oratorio Saint Paul op. 36

Wednesday, February 18 at 8:00 pm - Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress
TRIO CON BRIO COPENHAGEN with James Dunham, viola
Piano Quartet, op. 3; Song without Words, op. 109

Thursday, February 19 at 7:30 pm - Whittall Pavilion, Library of Congress
LECTURE:"Reflections on the Mendelssohn Bicentenary"
R. Larry Todd, Duke University and author of Mendelssohn. A Life in Music

Sunday, February 22 at 6:30 pm - National Gallery of Art
MENDELSSOHN PIANO TRIO
Trio in D minor, op. 49

Friday, February 27 at 8:00 pm - Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress
MENDELSSOHN CHOIR OF PITTSBURGH - Betsy Burleigh, Music Director
Mendelssohn: Psalm 55, Sechs Sprüche op. 79, Sechs Lieder

On display in the foyer of the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress during February will be a selection of rare items from the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Mendelssohn Collection, including a large and unique iconographic collection and the Mendelssohn family scrapbook. With more than 300 letters, portrait engravings, watercolors, and other documents, the collection is a rich resource for the study of Mendelssohn’s life.