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Music Department

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,572nd Concert

Steven Honigberg, cellist

Kathryn Brake, pianist

May 7, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Marin Marais (1656-1728)

La Folia (1725)

Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

Sonata in A Major (1886)

Allegretto ben moderato 

Allegro

Recitativo— Fantasia

Allegretto poco mosso

INTERMISSION

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Louange a I’eternite de Jesus

From the Quartetfor the End of Time (1940)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra

Adapted from the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1945)

Moderato

Adagio religioso

Allegro vivace

The Musicians

Heralded as a “sterling cellist” by the Washington Post, Steven Honigberg gave

his New York debut recital in Weill Hall and has since performed to critical

acclaim throughout the United States in recitals, as a soloist with orchestras,

and as a chamber musician. He has appeared with the Anchorage Symphony

Orchestra (Alaska) and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony (Idaho), and at

the Chopin Festival (Washington, DC) and the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). A

member ofthe National Symphony Orchestra, he was featured as soloist in its

1988 world premiere performance of David Ott’s Concertofor Two Cellos under

the direction of Mstislav Rostropovich. Honigberg is frequently involved in

the presentation of contemporary music and was the director, from 1994 to

2002, ofthe chamber music series at the United States Holocaust Memorial

Museum. He supervised the release of Darkness and Light, a four-volume set 

ofrecordings produced at the museum. A graduate ofThe Juilliard School,

where he studied with Channing Robbins and Leonard Rose, Honigberg

has also worked with Pierre Fournier and Karl Fruh. He plays the “Stuart”

Stradivarius cello, made in 1732.

Pianist Kathryn Brake, a winner ofthe Beethoven Competition, the

Elizabeth Davis Award, the Kosciusko Foundation Awards, and the National

Young Chopin Competition, appears frequently on the concert stages of

the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery, and The Phillips Collection. The

Washington Post called her a “compelling and imaginative performer.”

Outside the Washington area she has performed at the Armand Hammer

Museum in Los Angeles, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, and the

Teatro Real in Madrid, as well as in Canada, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

She has performed concertos with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and

the National Symphony Orchestra and has recorded for Albany Records, 

France Musique, and Radio-Television Espanola.