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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, dc

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Landover, md 20785

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,576th Concert

National Gallery Orchestra

Vladimir Lande, guest conductor

James Bryla, clarinetist

May 21, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
This concert is made possible in part by a grantfrom

the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.

Program

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Overture to “Guillaume Tell” (1829)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Premiere rapsodie for clarinet and orchestra (1909-1910)

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Symphony no. 1 in D Major (“Classical”) (1916-1917)

Allegro con brio

Larghetto

Gavotte: Non troppo allegro

Molto vivace

INTERMISSION

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Romeo and Juliet (1869)

Fantasy overture after Shakespeare

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Hungarian Dance no. 5 in G Minor (c. i860)

Orchestrated by Martin Schmeling
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 number, the Gallery orchestra eventually

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

undertaken the full range of chamber and symphonic repertoire and has

frequently presented first performances of works by American composers,

most notably the 1953 premiere of Charles Ives’s First Symphony under

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

Fourth Symphony under George Manos.

VLADIMIR LANDE

Conductor and oboist Vladimir Lande is the music director ofthe Chamber

Orchestra of Southern Maryland and the principal guest conductor ofthe

Saint Petersburg (Russia) Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Saint

Petersburg and graduated from the city’s conservatory of music in 1986,

having earned bachelor’s degrees in piano and conducting and a master’s

degree in oboe. He served as a principal oboist ofthe Saint Petersburg

Philharmonic Orchestra from 1984 to 1989. During that period he continued his studies in conducting and maintained an active career as a soloist,

winning the first prize ofthe Russian Republic Wind Competition.

Since immigrating to the United States in 1989, Lande has been the 

principal oboist ofthe Baltimore Opera and a soloist with Concert Artists

of Baltimore. Among the American orchestras he has conducted are the 

Bacchanalia Festival Chamber Orchestra (New York), the Chamber Orchestra 

of Southern Maryland, the Maryland Youth Sinfonietta, the Saint Mary’s

College Symphony Orchestra (Maryland), the Youth Festival Orchestra ofthe

Jewish Community Center/Gordon Center for Performing Arts (Baltimore),

and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Delaware, and Richmond,

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Virginia. Outside the United States, he conducted the opening concert ofthe 

2004 White Nights Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Saluzzo, Italy.

Lande is a founding member ofthe Poulenc Trio and a faculty member at

American University and Saint Mary’s College of Maryland.

JAMES BRYLA

Clarinetist James Bryla, a former pupil of Sidney Forrest, received bachelor 

and master of music degrees from The Catholic University of America,

where he also served on the faculty. He made his solo debut with the 

National Symphony Orchestra at age twenty-one, as the winner ofthe 1987

Young Soloist Competition. In addition, he has won numerous other 

awards, including the International Clarinetist Competition (in 1986 and

1987), the Milton W. King Memorial Certificate, and the Presser Scholar

Award. Bryla is currently the principal clarinetist ofthe National Gallery

Orchestra, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and the Eastwind Consort.

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