Pacifica Quartet by Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Monday, January 23, 2017 – 8:00 pm [Concert]
Pacifica Quartet with Jörg Widmann, clarinet
The exuberant, Grammy-winning Pacifica joins forces with German composer and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, well-matched partners for the striking works you’ll hear in this concert. Widmann’s dramatic, sinister Jagdquartett is a grimly ironic scherzo channeling the intensity and chaos of the hunt, and the pyrotechnical brilliance of the Weber Clarinet Quintet is breathtaking.
HAYDN String Quartet in G major, op. 76, no. 1
WIDMANN Jagdquartett [String Quartet no. 3]
WEBER Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, op. 34
Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building
Free, tickets required
If advance tickets are no longer available via Eventbrite, RUSH passes will be distributed at the door beginning at 6:00 pm.
Pre-concert conversation with the artists (6:30 pm – Whittall Pavilion)
Free, no tickets required
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Courtesy of the Marlboro Music Festival
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – 8:00 pm [Concert]
Musicians from Marlboro
Nicholas Phan, tenor; Michelle Ross, violin; Carmit Zori, violin; Rebecca Albers, viola; Alice Yoo, cello; Lydia Brown, piano
Musicians from Marlboro return to the Library for a mixed vocal and instrumental chamber evening that highlights the musical and cultural connections between Austria, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain.
HAYDN String Quartet in D major, op. 76, no. 5
BEETHOVEN Selections from Irische Lieder, WoO 152
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C major, op. 59, no. 3 (“Razumovsky”)
Presented in association with the Bill and Mary Meyer Concert Series of the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.
Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building
Free, tickets required
Advance tickets are no longer available. RUSH passes will be distributed at the door beginning at 6:00 pm.
Nightcap conversation with the artists (immediately following the concert, onstage)
Free, no tickets required
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 – 7:00 pm [Lecture]
“The Rhythmic Imagination in African Music”
Kofi Agawu, PhD, Professor of Music, Princeton University
Courtesy of Kofi Agawu
Distinguished musicologist Kofi Agawu discusses the rhythmic imagination in African music, based on his recent book The African Imagination in Music. Agawu has taught at King’s College London, Cornell, Yale and Harvard, and held visiting positions at Indiana University, University of Oregon, Hong Kong University, and Oxford. He is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received the Eva Judd O’Meara Award from the Music Library Association and Harrison Medal from the Society for Musicology in Ireland. His books include Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music (2008), Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (2008), and Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (2003). He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an M.M from King’s College London, and a B.A. from Reading University.
Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, James Madison Memorial Building
Free, tickets required