Competition. His career has included a full-time position as tenor

soloist with the United States Air Force Band and Singing

Sergeants and positions as resident tenor soloist for prominent

church congregations in Paris, France, Washington, D.C., and

Seattle, Washington. He has appeared as guest artist with

numerous symphony orchestras, including L’Orchestre de

Bordeaux, the Seattle Symphony, the Tacoma (Washington)

Symphony, the Arlington (Virginia) Symphony, and the

Williamsburg (Virginia) Symphonia. Currently on the faculty of

Northern Virginia Community College, Lackey previously taught

at Pacific Lutheran University and at the American College in

Paris.

Piano virtuoso and Fulbright Scholar James Jelasic continues

the rich musical heritage established by his maternal grandfather,

Jan Nemec, a composer and playwright in Czechoslovakia in the

early 1900s. A native of Dearborn, Michigan, Jelasic received his

early musical training at the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts.

Further studies earned for him the bachelor of music degree in

piano performance from Eastern Michigan University and the

master of music degree in accompanying and chamber music from

the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has also pursued

advanced studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Warwick 

University in Coventry, England. Jelasic’s master teachers

included such distinguished artists as Joseph Gurt, Gordon Green;

Eugene Bossart, Martin Katz, and Leonard Hokenson Germany.

Jelasic has enjoyed residencies for study and research in Munich,

Germany, Paris, and Saint Jean-de-Luz, France.

James Jelasic has received critical international acclaim for his

appearances with numerous symphony orchestras and as a

collaborative performer in recitals. The BBC, Radio France,

WGMS in Washington, D.C., and the PBS Television Network

have broadcast his performances live. While classically grounded,

Jelasic has musical interests that extend to traditional American

ballroom dance music, which he often performs with his highly

regarded society dance orchestra.

The Sixty-second. Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2486th Concert

Jon Lackey, tenor

James Jelasic, pianist

Sunday Evening, 22 February 2004

Seven O'clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free

The National Gallery is grateful to Jon Lackey and James

Jelasicfor substituting on just two days’ notice for Carl

Halvorson, who is ill.
Program

Giuseppe Sarti

(1729-1802)

Paolo Tosti H846-1916)

Roger Quilter 

(1877-1953)

I

Lungi dal caro bene

Ideale

Go, Lovely Rose

American Spiritual Deep River

II

Ludwig van Beethoven An die feme Geliebte

(1770-1827) Op. 98 (1816)

1. Auf dem Hiigel sitz’ ich, spahend

2. Wo die Berge so blau

3. Leichte Segler in den Hohen

4. Diese Wolken in den Hohen

5. Es kehret der Maien 6. Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder

Intermission

III

Robert Schumann Dichterliebe

(1810-1856) Op. 48 (1840)

1. Im wunderschonen Monat Mai

2. Aus meinen Tranen spriessen

3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube

4. Wenn ich in diene Augen seh’

5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen

6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome

7. Ich grolle nicht

8. Und wussten’s die Blumen, die kleinen

9. Das ist ein Floten und Geigen

10. Hor ich das Liedchen klingen

11. Ein Jtingling liebt ein Madchen

12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen

13. Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet

14. Allnachtlich im Traume

15. Aus alten Marchen

16. Die alten, bosen Lieder

The Musicians

Tenor Jon Lackey has garnered international acclaim for his

appearances both on the solo recital stage and as

a conceit soloist

with symphony orchestras. His distinctive voice isa unique blend

of both Heldentenor and lyric tenor qualities,a combination that

has led critics to praise both its“penetrating power” and“focused

lyricism

”. He credits his master teacher. Ilse Metternich, of

Munich, Germany, for his mastery of the bel canto singing

technique. He also studied in Paris with the internationally 

acclaimed baritone, Gerard Souzay. In recognition of Lackey's

remarkable abilities asa performer and his demonstrated interest

in French culture, the government of France sponsored his

residency during the annual international summer music festival at

the Maurice Ravel Academy in St. Jean-de-Luz, France. A native of Seattle, Washington, Lackey received the bachelor

of music degree in vocal performance from Pacific Lutheran

University in Tacoma, Washington, and undertook graduate music

studies at both the University of Washington in Seattle and at Kent

State University in Akron, Ohio. He was the top national finalist in

the prestigious National Federation of Music Clubs Voice