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The Sixty-fifth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

June 13, 20, and 27, 2007

Wednesday Afternoons, 12:10 pm

West Building Lecture Hall

June 17, 2007

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

June 24 and July 1, 2007

Sunday Evenings, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Presented in honor of

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

Admissionfree
Andre Kertesz, Blind Musician, Abony, 1921, National

Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift ofThe Andre and Elizabeth 

Kertesz Foundation

The Exhibition

Through over one hundred fifty photographs, books, and illustrated magazines, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, examines how photography developed into an immense phenomenon in Austria, the Czech Republic,

Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia during the period between the

two world wars. In honor ofthe exhibition, the National Gallery music

department has organized six concerts ofmusic composed in these countries (with special emphasis on pieces written between 1918 and 1945) and

performed by musicians from central Europe. Austria is represented by

soprano Elisabeth von Magnus, the Czech Republic by pianist Boris Krajny,

Germany by violist Hartmut Rohde, Hungary by violinist Vilmos Szabadi 

and pianist Gergely Szokolay, and Poland by the Royal String Quartet and

pianist Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska.

Visitors to the exhibition will find photographs by recognized masters

such as Hannah Hoch and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy alongside those by immediate contemporaries who are less well known today, including Karoly Escher,

Trude Fleischmann, Kazimierz Podsadecki, and Karel Teige. Likewise, the

musical programs pair works by familiar composers such as Bela Bartolc

(Hungary), Paul Hindemith (Germany), and Arnold Schoenberg (Austria)

with works by modernist contemporaries, including Erno Dohnanyi (active

in Budapest from 1919 to 1941), Ervin Schulhoff (active in Prague from 1924

to 1942), and Karol Szymanowski (active in Warsaw from 1919 to 1937).

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art and sponsored

by the Central Bank of Hungary. It is made possible by the generous support

ofthe Trellis Fund, with additional support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation, and The Robert 

Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. The concerts are made possible in part by the

support ofthe Embassy ofthe Republic of Poland and with the cooperation of

the embassies of Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia. The exhibition will remain

on view at the National Gallery through September 3, 2007, after which it will

travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Milwaukee 

Art Museum, and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

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2,628th Concert

June 13, 2007

Hartmut Rohde, violist

Mykola Suk, pianist

Program performed without intermission

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)

Suite hebraiquefor Viola and Piano (1951)

Rhapsodie

Processional

Affirmation

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)

An den Gesang eines Engels (Sonata for Solo Viola) (1955)

Mykola Kolessa (1903-2006)

From Four Preludes

Autumnal

Hutsul

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Fantasiesonate for Viola and Piano, op. 11, no. 4 (1919)

Fantasie

Thema mit Variationen

Finale mit Variationen

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2,629th Concert

June 17, 2007

Boris Krajny, pianist

Derek Katz, lecturer

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

In the Mists (1912)

Andante cantando

Molto adagio

Andantino

Presto

Janacek

Piano Sonata i.x.05 (1905-1906)

Predtucha (The Presentiment): Con moto

Smrt (Death): Adagio

INTERMISSION

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)

Sonata (1943)

Ervin Schulhoff (1894-1942)

Partita no. 4 (1922)

Partita no. 8 (1922)

Klement Slavicky (1910-1999)

3 Pezzi (1946-1947)

Jaroslav Jezek (1906-1942)

Bugatti Step (c. 1930)
2,630th Concert

June 20,2007

Vilmos Szabadi, violinist

Gergely Szokolay, pianist

Program performed without intermission

Erno Dohnanyi (1844-1960)

Sonatafor Violin and Piano, op. 21 (1899)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Romanian Folk Dances (1917)

Transcribed for violin and piano by Zoltan Szekely (1903-2001)

Jocul cu bata (Stick Dance): Allegro moderato

Braul (Sash Dance): Allegro 

Pe loc (In One Spot): Moderato

Buciumeana (Horn Dance): Moderato

Poarga romaneasca (Romanian Polka): Allegro 

Maruntel (Fast Dance): L’istesso tempo

Maruntel: Allegro vivace

Sandor Szokolay (b. 1931)

Two Portraitsfor Piano

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Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)

Eight Piano Pieces, op. 3 (i960)

Bartok

Rhapsody no. ifor Violin and Piano (1928)

Lassu: Moderato

Friss: Allegro moderato

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Three Preludes (1926)

Arranged for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)

No. 1 in B-flat Major: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

No. 2 in C-sharp Minor: Andante con moto e poco rubato

No. 3 in E-flat Minor: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
2,631st Concert 

June 24, 2007

Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska, pianist

Music by Scriabin, Szymanowski, and other

central European composers

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2,632nd Concert 

June 27, 2007

Elisabeth von Magnus, soprano

Jacob Bogaart, pianist

Program performed without intermission

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Traum (Frida Semler)

Feme Lieder (Friedrich Ruckert)

Stemenfall (Karl Wilhelm)

Sehnsucht (Paul Hohenberg)

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)

Ballade vom Weib und dem Soldaten (Bertolt Brecht)

Deutsches Lied 1937: Marie, weine nicht

Das Lied vom kriegerischen Lehrer

Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)

Walzer-Gesdnge (Waltz-Songs), op. 6

Based on Tuscan songs by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1891)

Liebe Schwalbe

Klagen ist der Mond gekommen

Fensterlein, nachts bist du zu

Ich geh’ des Nachts

Blaues Stemlein

Briefchen schrieb ich

Alma Marie Schindler-Mahler (1879-1964)

Die Stille Stadt (Richard Dehmel)

Laue Sommemacht (Gustav Falke)

Bei dir ist es traut (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Ekstase (Otto Julius Bierbaum)

Lobgesang (Dehmel)
2,633rd Concert 

July 1, 2007

Royal String Quartet

Izabella Szataj-Zimak, violin

Elwira Przybytowska, violin

Marek Czech, viola

Michal Pepol, cello

Program performed without intermission

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)

String Quartet no. 1 in C Major, op. 37 (1917)

Lento assai; allegro moderato

Andantino semplice; scherzando alia burlesca

Vivace ma non troppo

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Langsamer Satz (1905)

Szymanowski

String Quartet no. 2, op. 56 (1927)

Moderato; dolce e tranquillo 

Vivace, scherzando

Lento