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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.
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See also the Jazz in the Garden listings.
Presented in connection with the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival
Mysticism in Spanish music and art from 1500 to the present
Presented in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month
Concert Notes (PDF 116k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by J. S. Bach, Liszt, Muhly, Rorem, and Schubert
Presented in connection with Spotlight Switzerland
Concert Notes (PDF 141k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Domenico Scarlatti
Presented in honor of Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Concert Notes (PDF 115k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Sarasate
Presented in connection with Spotlight Switzerland
Concert Notes (PDF 112k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, and other Brazilian composers
Concert Notes (PDF 94k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Haydn, Schubert, and Smetana
Concert Notes (PDF 100k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Seventeenth-century music for recorder, cello, and harpsichord
Presented in honor of Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
Concert Notes (PDF 85k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by seventeenth-century composers
Presented in honor of Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered
Concert Notes (PDF 136k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Silent film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, with live music
Presented in conjunction with the National Museum of the American Indian; in honor of George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
Concert Notes (PDF 104k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Quartets by Beethoven, Grieg, and Hindson
Concert Notes (PDF 94k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Samuel Gordon, conductor
Music by Native American and other American composers
Presented in honor of George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
Concert Notes (PDF 104k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Carter and world premiere by Jeffrey Mumford
Concert Notes (PDF 105k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Beethoven Sonatas, opp. 31 and 101
Concert Notes (PDF 94k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Norwegian Christmas Festival
Concert Notes (PDF 100k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
with National Gallery Orchestra Strings
Stephen Ackert and Dingwall Fleary, guest conductors
Danielle DeSwert, pianist
Music by Ernest Bloch and other composers
Presented in honor of Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz
Concert Notes (PDF 145k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Manfred Knoop, guest conductor
Eva Lind, soprano
New Year Concert
Concert Notes (PDF 93k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Mozart and Schumann
Concert Notes (PDF 92k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Barber, Ligeti, Mendelssohn, and Piazzolla
Presented in conjunction with the 200th anniversary celebration of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn— Mendelssohn on the Mall
Preceded at 6:00 by a pre-concert talk on Mendelssohn and the visual arts
Concert Notes (PDF 117k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Kenneth Slowik, guest conductor
Music by Mendelssohn and Schubert
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 133k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
String Quartets by Mendelssohn
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 113k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Mendelssohn and other composers
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 110k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Peep Lassmann, pianist
Complete works for cello and piano by Mendelssohn
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 114k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Samuel Gordon, guest conductor
Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano
Steven Combs, baritone
Members of the National Gallery Orchestra
Music by Mendelssohn
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 113k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Mendelssohn and other composers
Presented in conjunction with Mendelssohn on the Mall
Concert Notes (PDF 113k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Barber, Copland, Corea, Dett, George, Gottschalk, Matheny, and Walker
Presented in honor of African American History Month
Concert Notes (PDF 133k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Paul O’Dette, lutenist
Music by Camphuysen, Huygens, Vallet, and van den Hove
Presented in honor of Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Concert Notes (PDF 80k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Amram
First concert of the 63rd American Music Festival
Presented in honor of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Concert Notes (PDF 417k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Huygens, Sweelinck, and other 17th-century Dutch composers
Presented in honor of Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Concert Notes (PDF 267k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Corigliano, Flagello, Hutcheson, Laufer, and Ruggles
Second concert of 63rd American Music Festival
Presented in honor of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Concert Notes (PDF 417k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Joseph Gascho, harpsichordist and music director
Music by Jacob van Eyck and other 17th-century Dutch and German composers
Presented in honor of Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
World premiere of new work by Krash and music of mid-20th-century composers
Third concert of the 63rd American Music Festival
Presented in honor of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Concert Notes (PDF 417k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music of Byrd, Dowland, Gastoldi, and other composers
Presented in honor of Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Concert Notes (PDF 132k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Berger, Persichetti, Piston, and Powell
Fourth concert of the 63rd American Music Festival
Presented in honor of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Concert Notes (PDF 417k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Mandel, Elie Siegmeister, and other composers
Fifth concert of the 63rd American Music Festival
Presented in honor of Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Concert Notes (PDF 417k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
with the National Gallery String Quartet
"Great Britons in Music"
Music by Britten and other British composers
Concert Notes (PDF 97k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Celebrating the reopening of the American Galleries
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Johannes Somary, founder and conductor
Music by Handel, Mozart, and Somary
Concert Notes (PDF 127k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music of Beethoven, Haydn, and Kraft
Sponsored by The Gottesman Fund in memory of Milton M. Gottesman
Concert Notes (PDF 95k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Pre-concert talk by composer Benjamin Boyle at 3:15
Music by Brahms, Boyle, Gabrieli, and other composers
Presented in honor of Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
Concert Notes (PDF 267k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Kim Allen Kluge, music director
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Music by Richard Strauss and other composers
Concert Notes (PDF 125k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
with David Chapman, pianist, Daniel Heifetz, violinist, and Scott Sabo, trumpeter
Music by Fauré, Handel, Mozart, and Scarlatti
Music by Boccherini and other composers
Presented in honor of Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
Vladimir Lande, guest conductor
Stephen Ackert, harpsichord
Music by Bach, Schnittke, and Tchaikovsky
with Jie Chen, pianist
Music by Schubert and other composers
Made possible in part by a gift from The Markow-Totevy Foundation
with Vilmos Szabadi, violinist, and Sylvia Kovács, violist
Music by Dohnányi, Shostakovich, and Weiner
with the National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble
David Montgomery, conductor
Music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and other composers
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