Release Date: March 6, 2008

Concert Schedule: March-June 2008

March 2 at 6:30 p.m.
National Cathedral Choir of Men and Girls
Michael McCarthy, conductor
Music by Allefri, Domenico Scarlatti, and Tallis; West Building, West Garden Court

March 5 at 12:10 p.m.
Women of the National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble
Music by Hildegard von Bingen and other women composers; West Building Lecture Hall
Presented in honor of Women's History Month

March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Octuor de France
Music by Beethoven and Ravel; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in honor of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

March 12 at 12:10 p.m.
Kathleen Shimeta, mezzo-soprano
Music by Gena Branscome; West Building Lecture Hall
Presented in honor of Women's History Month

March 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Parisii Quartet with Jerome Correas, baritone, and Emmanuel Strosser, pianist
Fauré; La Bonne chanson; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in honor of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

March 19 at 12:10 p.m.
Tapestry
Music for female vocal quartet by McAllister, Moody, Rachmaninoff, and van Ness; West Building Lecture Hall
Presented in honor of Women's History Month

March 23 at 4:00 p.m.
Harvard Glee Club
Music composed for the Harvard Glee Club's 150th anniversary and glee club favorites; East Building Auditorium

March 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Elina Vähälä, violinist; Mika Rännäli, pianist
Music by Copland, Debussy, Fauré, and Stravinsky; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in honor of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

April 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Chatham Baroque and Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano
La cetra amorosa: songs and sonatas of baroque Italy; West Building, West Garden Court

April 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Kate Hearden, soprano; Marcio Botelho, cellist
Music by Chausson, Debussy, Franck, and Massenet; East Building Auditorium
Presented in honor of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

April 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Davidson Fine Arts Chorale
Jim Dunaway, conductor
Music by J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Frank Martin, McCartney, and Freddie Mercury; West Building, West Garden Court

April 27 at 6:30 p.m.
Zuill Bailey, cellist; Simone Dinnerstein, pianist
Music by Beethoven; West Building, West Garden Court

May 4 at 6:30 p.m.
Poulenc Trio
With Hyu Nah Yu, soprano
Music by Beethoven and Mahler; West Building, West Garden Court

May 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Ryan Brown and members of Opera Lafayette
Early nineteenth-century French chamber music on period instruments; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in honor of In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet

May 18 at 6:30 p.m.
The Great Noise Ensemble
Armando Bayolo, conductor
Music by Bayolo, Chambers, Goins, Rudin, and White; West Building, West Garden Court

June 1 at 6:30 p.m.
Choral Arts Society of Washington
Joseph Holt, conductor
Music by Liszt; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in conjunction with the American Liszt Society

June 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Anna Kijanowska, pianist
Music by Chopin, Szymanowski, and other Polish composers; West Building, West Garden Court

June 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Judith Ingolfsson, violinist; Vladimir Stoupel, pianist
Music by Hallgrímsson, Ravel, and Schubert; West Building, West Garden Court

June 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Washington Bach Consort
J. Reilly Lewis, conductor
Music by J. S. Bach; West Building, West Garden Court
Presented in conjunction with the Washington Early Music Festival

June 29 at 6:30 p.m.
National Gallery Chamber Players String Quartet
Music by Haydn, Patiño, and Schubert
West Building, West Garden Court

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