Upcoming Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano

William Sharp, baritone

Music by Barber and other composers

June 10, 2012

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

The use of cameras or recording equipment during the

performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off.

Please note that late entry or reentry ofthe

East Building after 6:30 pm is not permitted.

For the convenience of concertgoers, 

the Garden Cafe remains open for light refreshments

until 6:00 pm on Sundays.

www.nga.gov

COVER! Philip Guston, Rug, 1976, National Gallery of Art,

Washington, Gift of Edward R. Broida

The Seventieth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,895th Concert

jack String Quartet

Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violin

John Pickford Richards, viola

Kevin McFarland, cello

June 3, 2012

Sunday, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953)

String Quartet no. 5

Guillame de Machaut (1300-1377)

Three Transcriptions (Arranged by Ari Streisfeld)

Rose, liz, printemps, verdur

Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient

Inviolata genitrix

Diarmid Flatley

Probabilities (2012)

Roger Reynolds (b. 1934)

notforgotten (2010)

I. Givemy

II.-v. Torn, Elliott, Iannis, Ryoanji 

vi. Now

Jacob Sundstrom

no commentfrom the Grey Room (2012)

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)

Tetras (1983)

This concert is made possible by supportfrom the University ofCalifornia.

The Musicians

JACK QUARTET

The jack Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with “explosive virtuosity”

(Boston Globe) and “viscerally exciting performances” (New York Times). The

Washington Post commented, “The string quartet may be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the jack Quartet are keeping it thrillingly 

vital.” Alex Ross (New Yorker) hailed their performance ofIannis Xenakis’

complete string quartets as being “exceptional” and “beautifully harsh,” and

Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times) called their sold-out performances ofGeorg 

Friedrich Haas’ String Quartet No. 3 In iij. Noct. “mind-blowingly good.”

The quartet has performed to critical acclaim at Wigmore Hall (London), 

Les Flaneries Musicales de Reims (France), Ultraschall Festival fur Neue

Musik (Germany), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Netherlands), Festival Intemacional Cervantino (Mexico), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik (Germany), Library of

Congress, Kimmel Center, La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Lucerne Festival 

(Switzerland), and Carnegie Hall.

In addition to its April 2012 concert at the National Gallery, jack has

recently performed at the Athelas New Music Festival in Denmark, the

Biennale fur Modeme Musik and the Wittener Tage fur Neue Kammermusik in Germany, and the SONiC Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Other venues in which the quartet has presented new music include Carnegie Hall and Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, the Newman Center for

the Performing Arts in Denver, and Strathmore Hall in Bethesda, Maryland.

The members ofthe quartet—violinists Christopher Otto and Ari

Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland—

met while attending the Eastman School of Music. They have since studied

with the Arditti, Kronos, and Muir string quartets, as well as with members

of Ensemble Intercontemporain. Focused on the commissioning and

performance ofnew works, the Quartet has collaborated with composers

Beat Furrer, Toshio Hosokawa, Gyorgy Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann,

Matthias Pintscher, and Elliott Sharp, among others.