http://www.nga.gov/ en-us National Gallery of Art, Washington Washington, DC National Gallery of Art On the third Tuesday of every month, the National Gallery of Art music department will release a podcast offering a deeper understanding of the art of music. On the third Tuesday of every month, the National Gallery of Art music department will release a podcast offering a deeper understanding of the art of music. National Gallery of Art webfeedback@nga.gov National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble and Various Guest Ensembles Program: Music by Couperin, Rameau, and other 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century French composers. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble and the early music ensembles Masques, Pro Musica Rara, and Zephyrus play music from concerts presented at the Gallery in honor of Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/031510.mp3 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST 65:16 ensemble, couperin, rameau, franch, vocal, masques, pro, musica, rara, zephyrus National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art String Quartet Program: Music by Brahms and Schubert. The National Gallery of Art String Quartet performs a Brahms piano quintet with renowned pianist Menahem Pressler and a quartet by Franz Schubert. The ensemble consists of violinists Claudia Chudacoff and Teri Lazar, violist Osman Kivrak, and cellist Diana Fish. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/100809.mp3 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST 28:01 string, qurtet National Gallery of Art Requiem Aeternam (after Victoria) Program: Music by Stephen Hough. This piece of music, composed by Stephen Hough for the exhibition The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700, is based on the 1605 Requiem by the great Spanish composer Tomás Luís de Victoria. Stephen Hough recast and reworked this requiem, reimagining its six voices for a string sextet. He selected five sections to make five movements: the fourth movement (Versa est) is a simple transcription with nothing altered; the first movement (Tadeat animum) takes the four-part original and floats it around the six instruments in antiphonal waves; the second movement (Kyrie eleison) keeps all the notes the same but changes their register–removing the linear mosaic of the vocal lines and making them soar and plunge in jagged, overlapping intervals. The third (Graduale) movement is more radically altered. The final, longest movement (Libera me) reproduces the polyphonic sections fairly faithfully, but takes the original plainsong interludes as if themes for variations in various modern styles. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/022310.mp3 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST 24:23 hough, spanish, sculpture National Gallery of Art National Gallery Wind Quintet Program: Music from the 19th century that explores "The Darker Side of Light." The National Gallery of Art Wind Quintet performs a concert in honor of The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900. The ensemble consists of flutist Sara Nichols, oboist Ronald Sipes, clarinetist Christopher Hite, bassoonist Danny Phipps, and French horn player Theodore Peters. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/100709.mp3 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST 34:13 national, gallery, quintet National Gallery of Art Choral Festival in Honor of Reopening of American Galleries Contemporary arrangements of 18th- and 19th-century American choral music, sung by the Central Bucks County (Pennsylvania) High School West Choir, the Eighteenth Street Singers (Washington, DC), and ProMusica of Columbia Union College (Takoma Park, Maryland). Choral music has been an important part of music at the National Gallery ever since the very first concert at the Gallery in December 1942, sung by the United States Navy Music School Chorus. In April 2009, the Gallery celebrated the reopening of the American Galleries in the West Building with a three-day festival of American choral music presented by six outstanding choirs. Listen to the some of the music sung by three of those choirs. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/041709.mp3 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST 28:18 american, choral, concert, festival National Gallery of Art Ma'alot Wind Quintet: Mendelssohn, Ligeti, Barber, Piazzolla, and Joplin Program: Felix Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), op. 61, arranged by Ulf-Guido Schäfer; György Ligeti's Six Bagatelles; Samuel Barber's Summer Music, op. 31 (1956); Astor Piazzolla's Suite, arranged by Ulf-Guido Schäfer; Scott Joplin's Ragtimes, arranged by Ulf-Guido Schäfer. Formed in 1986, the Ma'alot Wind Quintet has won prizes in major international festivals and established a reputation as a leading proponent of new music. In addition to works written especially the ensemble, the group also performs arrangements by quintet members Ulf-Guido Schäfer (clarinet) and Volker Grewel (horn). The other members of the quintet are Stephanie Winker (flute), Christian Wetzel (oboe), and Volker Tessmann (bassoon). This performance took place on January 11, 2009, and was the inaugural concert of Mendelssohn on the Mall, a festival presented jointly by the Library of Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Gallery of Art. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/011109.mp3 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST 54:20 Mendelssohn, Ligeti, Barber, Piazzolla, Joplin National Gallery of Art National Gallery Piano Trio Plays Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor Program: Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor. The National Gallery of Art Piano Trio, the resident trio at the National Gallery, features violinist Luke Wedge and cellist Ben Wensel, both of whom have performed as members of the National Gallery Orchestra. The third member of the trio, pianist Danielle DeSwert Hahn, is also the Gallery's music program specialist. Listen to the four movements of Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor, from a performance in the West Garden Court of the National Gallery on February 24, 2008. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/022408.mp3 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST 31:51 http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/022408.mp3 National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art Chamber Players Program: Music from the 16th and 17th centuries that explores the theme of travel. National Gallery of Art Chamber Players perform a concert in honor of Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450–1700. On this occasion, the ensemble includes tenor Wolodymyr Smishkewych, recorder virtuoso Kathryn Montoya, harpist Keith Collins, dulcian player Anna Marsh, viola da gambist Loren Ludwig, and harpsichordist Stephen Ackert. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/070807.mp3 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST 53:15 chamber, players, music, concert National Gallery of Art Concert in Honor of African American History Month by Celeste Headlee and Danielle DeSwert Program: Songs by William Grant Still for soprano and piano. Listen to music by William Grant Still, known as the dean of African American composers, and one of the country's most celebrated figures in music. A prolific composer, Still wrote more than 150 works, including symphonies, ballets, operas, chamber pieces, and vocal works. The concert features performances by Celeste Headlee, W. G. Still's granddaughter, and Danielle DeSwert. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/music/022708.mp3 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 EST 52:03 african, american, celeste, headlee, danielle, deswert, still John Musto "Out my one window," an Aria from Later the Same Evening: an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper "Out my one window," an aria from Later the Same Evening: an opera inspired by five paintings of Edward Hopper,commissioned to coincide with the Edward Hopper exhibition at the Gallery. The opera was performed this fall at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. To learn more, visit the Edward Hopper exhibition information page. "Out my one window," music by John Musto and lyrics by Mark Campbell, is used by kind permission of Peermusic Classical, New York. http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/audio/0707window.mp3 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:00:00 EST 9:07 art, hopper, edward, landscapes, noir, gallery, washington clean