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Music Department

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The Sixty-sixth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,652nd Concert

National Gallery Orchestra

New Year Concert

Jose Serebrier, guest conductor

Carole Farley, soprano

December 30, 2007

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)

Overture to Die Fledermaus (The Bat), op. 297

Pyotr Uich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

From The Nutcracker Suite

Marche

Trepak, Danse Russe

Valse Finale and Apotheosis

Tchaikovsky

From Evgeny Onegin

Tatiana’s Letter Scene

INTERMISSION

Johann Strauss Jr.

Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz), op. 437

Johann Strauss Jr. and Josef Strauss 

Pizzicato-Polka

Johann Strauss Jr.

Unter Donner und Blitz (Under Thunder and Lightning), op. 324

The Musicians

NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA

The National Gallery Orchestra was founded in 1943 and initially consisted

of approximately twenty-five players drawn from the National Symphony 

Orchestra. Gradually growing in numbers, the Gallery orchestra eventually 

reached the size and status of a large chamber orchestra. The ensemble has 

undertaken the full range of chamber and symphonic repertoire and has

frequently presented first performances ofworks by American composers,

most notably the 1953 premiere ofCharles Ives’ Symphony no. 1 under the

direction of Richard Bales and the 1990 premiere of Daniel Pinkham’s

Symphony no. 4 under George Manos.

This evening’s performance marks the forty-second special New Year

concert presented by the National Gallery Orchestra. The orchestra’s founder,

Richard Bales, inaugurated the tradition on January 2,1966, taking a cue from 

the famous New Year concerts at the Musikverien in Vienna. The reaction of

the audience to sublime moments, favorite tunes, and musical jokes on stage

is as important as the music in this festive celebration. The familiar music

evokes not only nostalgia for beauty and happiness past, but also energy,

liveliness, humor, and hope, as it carries us—now whirling in a waltz, now

pulsating in a march—through the present time and into the future. This

concert has come to be a beloved favorite in Washington, and it is offered as

a heartfelt wish, expressed in music, for a happy and prosperous New Year.

JOSE SEREBRIER

Grammy-award winning conductor and composer Jose Serebrier is one of

the most recorded classical artists of his generation. He has received thirtysix Grammy nominations and has recorded over 250 titles. After serving 

as Leopold Stokowski’s associate conductor at Carnegie Hall for five years,

Serebrier accepted an invitation from George Szell to become composer-inresidence ofthe Cleveland Orchestra. As artistic director of Festival Miami,

Serebrier commissioned many new works, including Elliot Carter’s String

Quartet No. 4, and conducted numerous American and world premieres.

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He has toured internationally with the Juilliard Orchestra, l’Orchestre de 

Chambre National de Toulouse, the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, the

Philharmonia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Royal

Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and many others.

His first recording—Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony with the London

Philharmonic Orchestra—won a Grammy nomination. He has recorded

with dozens ofsymphony orchestras worldwide, including such prestigious

ensembles as the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic

Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic,

the Oslo Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Scottish

National Orchestra.

As a composer, Serebrier has won most ofthe important awards in the

United States, including the Broadcast Music International award, two

Guggenheim awards, the Koussevitzky Foundation Award, several Rockefeller 

Foundation grants, and commissions from the National Endowment for the

Arts and the Harvard Musical Association. Born in Uruguay ofRussian and

Polish parents, Serebrier has composed more than a hundred works. When

he was seventeen, his First Symphony had its premiere under Leopold Stokowski. Serebrier’s third and newest symphony, Symphonic mystique, received 

a Grammy nomination for Best New Composition of2004. The following 

year, Serebrier’s first recording with the New York Philharmonic was released

on Warner Classics. In addition to prize-winning recordings ofGlazunov

symphonies and ballet music with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra,

Serebrier conducted a series ofworld-premiere recordings ofworks by Ned

Rorem with various orchestras, released on Naxos and other record labels.

CAROLE FARLEY

Grammy-nominated soprano Carole Farley made her Metropolitan Opera

debut at age nineteen in the title role of Lulu. Farley has also sung the title

roles in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth ofMtsensk and Richard Strauss’ Salome

in opera houses around the world. She has performed at the Canadian Opera,

Lyric Opera ofChicago, New York City Opera, Oper der Stadt Koln, Teatro 

Colon in Buenos Aires, Welsh National Opera, and in Brussels, Diisseldorf,

Florence, Lyon, Nice, Paris, Torino, and Zurich. Her performances of Poulenc’s

La Voix Humaine and Menotti's The Telephone, filmed by Decca in coproduction with the bbc and issued on dvd, were a New York Times bestseller.

Farley has appeared in concert with most ofthe leading orchestras in the

United States, including those ofBaltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Minnesota,

Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh as well as with the National Symphony Orchestra

and the New York Philharmonic. Her guest appearances with European

orchestras include the bbc Philharmonic, the bbc Symphony, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, l’Orchestre National de France, and

the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Last year she undertook a Latin American

tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and an international tour with the

National Chamber Orchestra ofToulouse. That same season included opera

productions in France and in many European opera houses of Die Walkure,

Parsifal, and Salome. Her extensive discography includes over fifty titles, many

ofwhich have won awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque and Grammy

nominations. Her CD ofsongs by William Bolcom, accompanied at the piano

by the composer, received two Grammy nominations in 2006.

Carole Farley appears at the National Gallery by arrangement with

Robert Lombardo and Associates of New York City.

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Next Month at the National Gallery

New York Chamber Soloists

Music by Carter, Fried, Mozart, Saint-Saens, and Vivaldi

January 6, 2008

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Vilnius String Quartet

Music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Narbutaite

January 13, 2008

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Jeni Slotchiver, pianist

Music of North and South American origin by Busoni,

Gottschalk, Guarnieri, Guastavino, Ignone, Viana, and Villa-Lobos

January 20, 2008

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Central Bucks High School West Chamber Choir

Music by Cage, Caldwell, Gjeilo, Ohrt, and Samson

January 27, 2008

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

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