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The National Gallery of Art will remain closed on Tuesday, February 9, due to weather conditions. All events have been canceled. Please check back for rescheduled dates.
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.
For the convenience of concertgoers, the Garden Café remains open until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. For more information or to request group reservations for ten or more, call (202) 712-7458.
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Music Programs Podcasts
On the third Tuesday of every month, the National Gallery of Art music department will release a podcast offering a deeper understanding of all things musical.
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See also the Jazz in the Garden listings.
New Year Concert
José Serebrier, guest conductor
Carole Farley, soprano
Music by Bizet, Serebrier, and Viennese composers
Karen Johnson, flutist
Music by Glass, Kingma, Piazzola, and other composers
Concert Notes (PDF 94k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
with Piffaro
Music by Monteverdi from 1610
Concert Notes (PDF 88k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Anne-Marieke Evers, mezzo-soprano
Risa Browder, violinist
Jodi Beder, viola da gambist
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach from 1710
Concert Notes (PDF 97k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
National Gallery of Art String Quartet
National Gallery of Art Wind Quintet
Music by Beethoven from 1810
Concert Notes (PDF 108k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Berg and Webern from 1910
Concert Notes (PDF 88k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
National Gallery of Art Orchestra
Great Noise Ensemble
Armando Bayolo, conductor
Tracy Cowart, mezzo-soprano
David Smooke, speaker
Music by Bayolo and Carillo from 2010
Concert Notes (PDF 99k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Gershwin
Presented in honor of From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Concert Notes (PDF 80k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Music by Beethoven
Concert Notes (PDF 77k) (Download Acrobat Reader)
Danielle DeSwert Hahn, pianist
Music by Gershwin
Presented in honor of From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Music by Perkinson and other African American composers
Presented in honor of African American History Month
Darryl Hunt, guest conductor
Music by Mozart, Grieg, and other composers
Presented in honor of African American History Month
Peter Vinograde, pianist
Music by African American composers
Presented in honor of African American History Month
Music by Gabrielli and other composers
Presented in honor of The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700
Music by Gubaidulina and other composers
Presented in honor of Women's History Month
Music by Roger Reynolds
Presented in honor of The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works
Music by women composers of the 21st century
Presented in honor of Women's History Month
Music by Chopin
Presented in honor of the 200th year of Chopin's birth and in cooperation with the Embassy of Poland
Music by Spanish composers
Presented in honor of The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700
Made possible in part by support from the Embassy of Spain
with Chatham Baroque
"The Passion in Music and Art"
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Presented in honor of The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700
Preconcert talk by David Gariff
6:00 p.m., West Building Lecture Hall
Music by Glass, Leon, Szymanski, and Ung
Presented in honor of The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works
Presented in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences
Music by Gershwin, Gottschalk, Milhaud, and Ravel
Presented in honor of From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
Music by Bernstein, Copland, and Ives
Presented in honor of American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Sponsored by The Gottesman Fund in memory of Milton M. Gottesman
Stephen Simon, guest conductor
Music by Simon and other composers
Presented in honor of American Modernism: The Shein Collection
Thomas Bagwell, piano
Lieder by Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann
Presented in honor of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900
J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
Presented in honor of German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580–1900
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