Founder's Day: Piece Offerings - Focused Encounters with Recent Works by Reynolds and Soper
Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
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This year’s Founder’s Day concert features an inaugural set of “Piece Offerings: Focused Encounters with Recent Works,” where audiences will hear a single work or portion of a work, followed by an onstage discussion with its creators. Composers Roger Reynolds and Kate Soper will be joined by pianist Eric Huebner, computer musician Jacob Sundstrom and the Wet Ink Ensemble for this novel experience, with a special start time of 7 pm.
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Lakecia Benjamin
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Kluge Center LJ 119 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
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Her talent has been recognized by the Downbeat Critics Poll, which voted her as the "Rising Star Alto Saxophonist" in 2020, and the Jazz Journalists Association, which named her the "Up and Coming Artist of the Year." Her tribute to Alice and John Coltrane in her successful release of “Pursuance” in 2020 showcases her artistic growth, while her latest album, “Phoenix,” released in 2023, proves her continued success.
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Richard O'Neill, Viola and Jeremy Denk, Piano
Monday, November 20, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
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Richard O’Neill and Jeremy Denk bring a program of landmark works for the viola, two composed by master violists better known today as composers: Rebecca Clarke and Paul Hindemith. Expect a searing performance of Clarke’s eloquent 1919 sonata, now a classic in the repertoire. A third star appearing in this concert is the Library’s 1690 magnificent Tuscan-Medici viola, on loan from the Tuscan Corporation, one of only a handful of Stradivari violas in existence.
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Escher Quartet with Jason Vieaux, Guitar
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
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The quartet has broadened its reputation by becoming collaborators with a wide range of artists. One of its more enduring and rewarding partnerships has been with Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux. They join forces for a delightful program of chamber music by Boccherini, Bach, Beethoven and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, some of which is held in manuscript at the Library of Congress.
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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Friday, December 1, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
This performance has reached its in-advance registration limit. However, we encourage patrons without registrations to attend the night of the event and join the standby group. Patrons without registrations will receive a number based on the order of arrival, and at 7:55 p.m., available seats will be filled from this group, space permitting.
Trumpeter, composer, producer and innovative artist, he is the creator of “Stretch Music,” a jazz-rooted, genre-blind musical form that tries to “stretch” jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass multiple musical forms and cultures. Chief Adjuah is also the creator of a signature line of instruments including the new Adjuah Bow. Join the Library for an evening of powerful sounds from the mind of one of the finest and most fearless sons of New Orleans.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant Quintet
Friday, December 15, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
This performance has reached its in-advance registration limit. However, we encourage patrons without registrations to attend the night of the event and join the standby group. Patrons without registrations will receive a number based on the order of arrival, and at 7:55 p.m., available seats will be filled from this group, space permitting.
Cécile McLorin Salvant is “one of the most daring and resourceful vocalists in jazz—or any other genre, for that matter” (Uncut). A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Award, Salvant is a visionary performer and composer, a master storyteller inspired by visual art, whose first three recordings each earned a Grammy Award for jazz vocals. In this concert she performs music from her recent project, “Ghost Song.” “Disarmingly beautiful” is Downbeat’s verdict for this album, an intriguing mix of seven original songs and five covers on themes of ghosts, nostalgia and yearning. As Salvant described it, “The idea of dancing with a ghost, or a memory—I connect with that idea so much. To me, the domain of memory, of reminiscing, is a form of celebrating something that is not with you… like unrequited love. It points to how fleeting everything is.”
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Stradivari Anniversary Concert: Dalí Quartet with Ricardo Morales, Clarinet
Monday, December 18, 2023, 8:00 pm Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20003
This performance has reached its in-advance registration limit. However, we encourage patrons without registrations to attend the night of the event and join the standby group. Patrons without registrations will receive a number based on the order of arrival, and at 7:55 p.m., available seats will be filled from this group, space permitting.
Silver Medal winner of the Piazzolla Music Competition, the Dalí Quartet is renowned for their innovative programming bringing the spotlight to Latin American repertoire. They come to the Library of Congress to perform on the Library’s historic stringed instruments with a beautifully curated program featuring works by Puerto Rican composer Sonia Morales-Matos, Spanish composer Turina, Cuban clarinetist and composer Paquito D’Rivera, Beethoven and Weber.
6:30 p.m: Conversation with the Artists Join the Dalí Quartet as they share their reflections on their experience of working with the Library’s Stradivari instruments and the program they have prepared for the Stradivari Anniversary Concert.
David Fulton’s talk scheduled for 7:00 pm has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Did you miss one of our concerts? It may be available online. Check it out! For nearly a century music lovers worldwide and in the nation’s capital have enjoyed concerts at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. Come explore and watch and listen to videos of this season’s concerts as well as past concerts here.
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We have great educational videos. Let's watch! From music composition to influences to Afro-Cuban music, these short videos cover a wide range of topics that we hope will spark your curiosity and inspire you to discover your inner musician.
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