Concerts
21st Century Consort Concerts since 2002
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05/05/12“Music of Games”
“The Art of Video Games” is one of the first exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies. Who better to explore and comment on this new realm than SAAM’s Consort in residence?.
- Peter Buffett
- Video Music
- Laura Karpman
- Common Tone
- John Adams
- Road Movies
- Dan Visconti
- The Clear Light
- John Chowning
- Voices
- Paul Schoenfield
- Four Music Videos
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02/11/12“Multiplicity Multiplicity”
The concept of making multiple images from one matrix has been integral to printmaking, yet each impression is considered to be an original of art. Consider the musical and visual series of contemporary impressions as explored by these American composers.
- Luke DuBois/Paul Moon
- Multimedia Work
- Mark Kuss
- Power Synth
- Robert Beaser
- Variations
- David Froom
- Colors Passing Through Us
- David Crockett
- Wet Ink
- James Matheson
- Falling
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12/03/11“. . . Hall of Wonders”
Charles Dickens’ marvelous, supernatural Christmas story, in the irresistible setting by American composer Jon Deak, is also an indictment of industrialization. A 19th century, romantic sensibility pervades Dickens’ countryman Nicholas Maw’s lush piano trio.
(EXHIBITION: THE GREAT AMERICAN HALL OF WONDERS)).Read the printed program now for this concert.
- Nicholas Maw
- Piano Trio
- Jon Deak
- The Passion of Scrooge
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11/05/11“The Great American . . .”
Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson were the voices of 19th century American transformation. Their poetry and period are points of departure for these compositions of our own time.
(EXHIBITION: THE GREAT AMERICAN HALL OF WONDERS).Read the printed program now for this concert.
- John Harbison
- Songs America Loves to Sing
- William Brehm, Mario Davidovsky, Joan Tower, Richard Markowitz
- A Whitman Sampler
- David Froom
- Emerson Songs
- Miguel Del Aguila
- Clocks
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04/16/11“Carpe Diem”
Taking Time for what it is: nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once, in this music reflecting artist Robert Rauchenberg’‘s works at American Art. Read the printed program now for this concert.
- Joan Panetti
- The Instant Gathers
- John Cage
- The Seasons
- Jordan Kuspa
- Time Crunch
- Paul Moon
- Projections
- Olivier Messiaen
- Quartet for the End of Time
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02/11/11“Fable”
Artist Alexis Rockman depicts the natural world with virtuosity and wit while exploring concerns about the world’s fragile ecosystems. The Consort performs fantastic, ferocious, futuristic music for Rockman’s “A Fable for Tomorrow.” Read the printed program now for this concert.
- Igor Stravinsky
- Rite of Spring
- Paul Schoenfield
- Cowbird Quartet
- Jennifer Furr
- Imaginary Animals
- Bruce MacCombie
- Light Upon the Turning Leaf
- Jacob Druckman
- Lamia
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12/04/10“Unruly Landscapes”
Photographer John Gossage focused on the the non-heroic landscape of our everyday surroundings, revealing the grace and elegance in places caught between the urban and natural worlds. The exhibition is the point of departure for a musical exploration of horizons near and far. Read the printed program now for this concert.
- Bright Sheng
- The Stream Flows
- David Froom
- Piano Trio “Grenzen”
- Charles Ives
- Thoreau (from Concord Sonata)
- Donald Crockett
- to be sung on the water
- Alan Mandel
- Steps to Mt. Olympus
- Donald Crockett
- Horn Quintet "La Barca"
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10/23/10“As American As . . .”
Norman Rockwell introduced unlikely heroes in his one-frame vignettes about America that celebrate ordinary people, love of country and the value of family. The Consort salutes the exhibition with musical apple pie and adventure.
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- Samuel Barber
- Dover Beach
- Jordan Kuspa
- Fantastic Stuff: A Suite for Viola
- John Deak
- Wager at the El Dorado Saloon
- William Brehm
- Inaugural Suite
- Mark Kuss
- My Favorite Things
- Aaron Copeland
- Old American Songs / Music from films
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05/08/10“Characters”The universal language of music plays with the language of letters, their form, meaning, and creation. Tonight includes the world premiere of Thomas Albert's setting of Amy Young's poetry, with projection design by Wendall Harrington.
- Mark Kuss
- My Favorite Things
- Unsuk Chin
- Acrostic Wordplay—Seven Scenes from Fairy Tales
- Steve Reich
- Typing Music
- Thomas Albert
- Characters
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03/13/10“Flora and Fauna”Four fantastical forays into the plant and animal life of our minds.
- Kaija Saariaho
- Six Japanese Gardens
- Scott Wheeler
- Dragon Mountain
- Evan Chambers
- The Barnacle and the Nautilus
- Robert Parris
- The Book of Imaginary Beings
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12/05/09“Currier and Ives”The Consort performs the work of two New England composers who, a century apart, have contributed to the American Musical landscape.
- Sebastian Currier
- Scarlatti Cadences
- Brainstorm
- Verge
- Charles Ives
- Piano Trio
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10/24/09“Nicholas”A tribute to the late composer Nicholas Maw, soprano Lucy Shelton, baritone William Sharp, and Consort members perform Maw's intensely lyrical music.
- Nicholas Maw
- Head of Orpheus
- Ghost Dances
- Roman Canticle
- La Vita Nuova
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04/04/09“Music Of Magic And Light”
- Hesketh, Kenneth
- Aphorisms
- Froom, David
- Three Love Songs on Poetry of Sue Standing
- Feldman, Morton
- Projection I
- Feldman, Morton
- Four Songs to e.e. cummings
- Druckman, Jacob
- Glint
- Saariaho, Kaijo
- Changing Light
- Welcher, Dan
- Spirit Realms
- Doppmann, William
- Spring Songs
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02/21/09“Recalling Valentines”
- Druckman, Jacob
- Valentine
- Maw, Nicholas
- Voice of Love
- David Froom
- Aubade
- Thomas, Augusta Read
- Love Twitters
- Richard Wernick
- Poison Tree
- Krash, Jessica
- Valentine
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02/21/09“Recalling Valentines”
- Druckman, Jacob
- Valentine
- Maw, Nicholas
- Voice of Love
- David Froom
- Aubade
- Thomas, Augusta Read
- Love Twitters
- Richard Wernick
- Poison Tree
- Krash, Jessica
- Valentine
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12/06/08“Natural Affinities”
- Copland, Aaron
- Fantasy
- Saariaho, Kaija
- Petals
- Tower, Joan
- And They’re Off/Holding a Daisy/Big Sky
- Thomas, Augusta Read
- a circle around the sun/ Moon Jig
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10/25/08“October Surprise”
- Moe, Eric
- Three Ways to Relieve Tension
- Deak, Jon
- Lucy and the Count
- Kuss, Mark
- Fear (Premiere)
- Gruber, Hk
- Frankenstein
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04/05/08“Music Of Color And Light”
- Chambers, Evan
- Rothko-Tobey Continuum
- Larsen, Libby
- By a Departing Light
- Wourinen, Charles
- Iridule
- Maccombie, Bruce
- Color and Time
- Froom, David
- Lightscapes
- Primosch, James
- Dark the Star (Premiere)
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02/23/08“Swan To Stone”
- Moss, Lawrence
- The Swan
- Deak, Jon
- The Ugly Duckling
- Albert, Stephen
- TreeStone
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12/08/07“A Child’s Christmas In Wales”
- Thomas, Dylan
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales
- Warlock, Peter
- Balulalow
- Crumb, George
- A Little Suite for Christmas
- Frederico’s Little Songs for children
- Schoenfield, Paul
- Slovakian Children’s Songs
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10/27/07“Imaginary Landscapes”
- Ives, Charles
- Patriotic Songs
- Three Landscape Songs
- Krash, Jessica
- Undisclosed Locations
- Four Lives Cut Short
- Behrman, David
- Protest, 1917-2004
- Ran, Shulamit
- Mirage
- Cage, John
- In a Landscape
- Kellogg, Daniel
- Grand Canyon Hymns
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10/27/07“Imaginary Landscapes”
- Ives, Charles
- Patriotic Songs
- Three Landscape Songs
- Krash, Jessica
- Undisclosed Locations
- Four Lives Cut Short
- Behrman, David
- Protest, 1917-2004
- Ran, Shulamit
- Mirage
- Cage, John
- In a Landscape
- Kellogg, Daniel
- Grand Canyon Hymns
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04/07/07“Games People Play”
- Albert, Thomas
- Illuminations (Premiere)
- Alexander, Peter
- Headlock
- Bolcom, William
- 2nd Sonata for Violin and Piano
- Bolling, Claude
- Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio
- Fry, James
- A Little Cartoon Music (Premiere)
- Horne, David
- Spike
- Krash, Jessica
- Her and Him (Premiere)
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02/03/07“Error Of The Moon”
- Moravec, Paul
- Tempest Fantasy
- Wernick, Adam
- Hymns, Sighs & Shadows
- Botti, Susan
- Talaio: Desdemona
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12/03/06“Sound Objects”
- Morrill, Dexter
- Fantasy Quintet for Piano/Electronic Sounds
- Patton, Christopher
- Eleven-ninety-nine
- Primosch, James
- From A Book of Hours
- Schoenfield, Paul
- Elegy, Rag and Boogie
- Wernick, Richard
- Sonata for Cello and Piano
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10/21/06“American Retrospeculative”
- Cage, John
- Suite for Toy Piano in Five Movements
- Froom, David
- Amichai Songs (Premiere)
- Ives, Charles &Amp; Others
- Song-set: Charles Ives and his Sources
- Varese, Edgard
- Poeme Electronique
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04/29/06“Near Myth”
- Louis Ballard
- Four American Indian Piano Preludes
- Richard Wernick
- In Praise of Zephyrus
- Jon Deak
- Rapunzel
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Ring a Dumb Carillon
- Thomas Flaherty
- When Time Was Young
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02/11/06“Time And Memory: Celebrating The Hirshhorn’s Hiroshi Sugimoto Exhibition”
- Scott Wheeler
- Dream Palace (world premiere)
- John Cage
- Cheap imitation, String Quartet
- David Froom
- Down to a Sunless Sea
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12/10/05“4 Hands, 18 Feet”
- Kari Henrik Juusela
- Natai Boogie
- Joan Tower
- Stepping Stones
- Witold Lutoslawski
- Pagannini Variations
- Frances Poulenc
- Sonata for Two Pianos
- John Adams
- Hallelujah Junction
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11/05/05“Homage”
- Arthur Benjamin
- Le Tombeau de Ravel
- Paul Schoenfield
- Camp
- Nicholas Maw
- Personnae #VI
- Stephen Jaffe
- Homage to the Breath
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06/30/05“Visual Music”A series of four summer programs in connection with the Hirshhorn Museum's exhibition "Visual Music," including premieres by Thomas Albert, Christopher Patton and Bruce MacCombie and works by Messiaen, Schoenberg and others.
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04/16/05“Expanding Universe”
- Robert Gibson
- Four Haiku
- Igor Stravinsky
- Three Japanese Lyrics
- Toru Takamitsu
- Between Tides
- Kenji Bunch
- Paraphraseology
- Joseph Schwantner
- Sparrows
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03/13/05“Time For Three Plus One”Music by Paul Schoenfield and Time for Three
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01/22/05“Homage”
- Nicholas Maw
- Narrations
- Stephen Jaffe
- Homage to the Breath
- Arthur Benjamin
- Le Tombeau de Ravel
- Paul Schoenfield
- Camp Songs
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10/16/04“Flute Of The Moon”
- Randall Woolf
- Quicksilver
- Fred Cohen
- That Which Binds Us
- Lowell Liebermann
- Flute Sonata
- Sebastian Currier
- Night Time
- Joseph Schwantner
- Wild Angles of the Open Hills
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10/16/04“Slow Boat To The Universe”
- Lawrence Moss
- A New Dawn
- James Fry
- Three Chinese Folk Songs
- Gustav Mahler
- Das Lied Von Der Erhde (arr. Schoenberg)
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07/20/04“Washington National Cathedral Series”2004 Crumb Birthday Celebration "The Cosmos According to Crumb" (Crumb and His Antecedents)
- Claude Debussy
- La Cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book I, No. 10)
- Charles Ives
- Trio
- George Crumb
- Makrokosmos Vol. III: Music for Summer Evening
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07/13/04“Washington National Cathedral Series”2004 Crumb Birthday Celebration "The Cosmos According to Crumb" (Crumb and His Antecedents)
- George Crumb
- Ancient Voices of Children
- Gustav Mahler (Stein)
- Symphony No. 4 in G Major
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07/06/04“Washington National Cathedral Series”2004 Crumb Birthday Celebration "The Cosmos According to Crumb" (Crumb and His Antecedents)
- Bela Bartok
- Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos Vol. 6)
- George Crumb
- Macrokosmos Volume IV: Celestial Mechanics
- Olivier Messiaen
- Quartet for the End of Time
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06/29/04“Washington National Cathedral Series”2004 Crumb Birthday Celebration "The Cosmos According to Crumb" (Crumb and His Antecedents)
- Anton Webern
- Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano
- George Crumb
- Voice of the Whale
- George Crumb
- Sonata for Solo Cello
- Claude Debussy
- String Quartet
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06/29/04“Washington National Cathedral Series”2004 Crumb Birthday Celebration "The Cosmos According to Crumb" (Crumb and His Antecedents)
- Anton Webern
- Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano
- George Crumb
- Voice of the Whale
- George Crumb
- Sonata for Solo Cello
- Claude Debussy
- String Quartet
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04/17/04“Running Backwards”
- David Froom
- Trio
- Paul Schoenfield
- Partita
- Sebastian Currier
- Variations on “Time and Time Again”
- Nicholas Maw
- Ghost Dances
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03/13/04“No Place To Hyde”
- Robert Gibson
- Of Points Fixed and Fluid
- Arthur Levering
- Clarion/Shadowing
- Bela Bartok
- Contrasts
- Jon Deak
- Hyde and Jekyll
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02/07/04“Dylan”
- Daniel Kellogg
- And the Dust Shall Sing Like a Bird
- John Corigliano
- Mr. Tambourine Man: Poems of Bob Dylan
- Yumiko Matsuoka/Bob Dylan
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Elizabeth Lutyens
- Valediction (Dylan Thomas, 1953)
- Charles Wuorinen
- A Winter’s Tale
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12/13/03“Keys To The Future”
- Richard Wernick
- Sonata
- James Primosch
- Fantasia-Sonata
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11/01/03“What Goes Round”(celebrating the Hirshhorn's "Gyroscope" Exhibition)
- Hayes/Jones
- Gyroscope
- David Froom
- Circling
- Luciano Berio
- Circles
- Luciano Berio
- Sequenza
- Jacob Druckman
- Come Round
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04/26/03“About The Bard”
- Ned Rorem
- After Reading Shakespeare
- Malcolm Peyton
- Four Songs from Shakespeare
- Scott Wheeler
- Illyrian Rounds
- James Primosch
- The Tempest
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03/15/03“Cries And Whispers”
- Curt Cacioppo
- Three Piano Pieces
- Anton Webern
- Four Pieces
- Sebastian Currier
- Whispers
- George Crumb
- Four Nocturnes
- Daniel Kellogg
- Divinum Mysterium
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02/08/03“Popcycle”
- William Bolcom
- Violin Sonata
- George Rochberg
- Electrikaliedoscope
- Mark Kuss
- Ten American Folksongs
- Paul Schoenfield
- Four Music Videos
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11/09/02“NYC: Fire And Ice”
- Ellington/Strayhorn
- Take the A Train
- Steve Reich
- NY Counterpoint
- Evan Chambers
- Firehouse Reel
- Jon Deak
- Mose the Fireman
- Donald Sur
- Epistrophe
- Charles Wuorinen
- NY Notes
*Programs subject to change.
