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Music Department

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The Sixty-seventh Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,728th Concert

Nancy Peery Marriott, soprano

David Chapman, pianist

Daniel Heifetz, violinist

Scott Sabo, trumpeter

May 10, 2009

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

George F. Handel (1685-1759)

“Where e’er You Walk” from Sonde

“Bel Piacere” from Agrippina

“Let The Bright Seraphim” from Samson

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

“L’amero sard costante” from II Re pastore

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Mandoline

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Liebst du um Schonheit

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Die Forelle

Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)

“Depuis le jour” from Louise

INTERMISSION

John Duke (1899-1984)

Just-Spring (from a poem by e.e. cummings)

1 Can’t Be Talkin’ ofLove (from a poem by Esther Mathews)

Richard Hundley (b. 1931)

Will There Really Be a Morning? (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)

Come Ready and See Me (from a poem by James Purdy)

Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

Song ofthe Blackbird

Love’s Philosophy

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Pastorale

Lori Laitman (b. 1955)

Dreaming

The Musicians

NANCY PEERY MARRIOTT

Nancy Peery Marriott has appeared extensively in concert, oratorio, and

recital throughout Austria, the Middle East, and the United States. In the 

Washington, DC, area, she has performed at The Barns at WolfTrap, Constitution Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Music

Center at Strathmore, The National Theatre, and Saint Matthew’s Cathedral,

as well as the embassies of Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and Sweden.

Equally at home on the opera stage, Marriott has sung Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La Boheme), Sonia (The Merry Widow), Oscar (A Masked

Ball), and Lucy (The Telephone) among others. She has performed leading 

roles with the Washington Savoyard Company, including Gilbert and

Sullivan’s lolanthe, The Gondoliers, Trial by Jury, Mikado, and Ruddigore.

Marriott has been a soloist with the Mormon Symphony Orchestra and

Chorus at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has appeared as soloist

with the Tabernacle Choir in several live performances broadcast internationally from Salt Lake City. She was the featured soloist in Israel for the 

Jerusalem Center and for the annual Messiah “sing-in” with the National

Symphony Orchestra, and she sang her Utah Symphony Orchestra debut as

the soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Marriott has performed for Brigham Young

University, George Washington University, Harvard College, Southern

Virginia University, the University of Alaska, and the University of Utah. She

has also served as a panelist for the National Opera Society Symposium on

Women in Opera and Theatre at the National Museum ofWomen in the Arts.

Marriott has appeared at the Alaska Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks,

at Boston’s Symphony Hall, with the Great Waters Festival Orchestra of New

Hampshire, with the Heifetz International Music Institute, and as a guest

artist for the Society ofthe Cincinnati’s Saturday Concert Series. She presented the inaugural recital for the Longy Alumni Concert Series at the

Longy Conservatory of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts; performed for

Opera International’s Opera Gala Concert at the Music Center at Strathmore

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Hall; and recently performed in the Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church’s

Concert Series in Naples, Florida. Recent concerts and recitals include performances at the Alaska Opera Arts Festival in July 2008 and the National

Theatre in November 2008. In addition to her concert at the National Gallery 

of Art, she will appear in the Society ofthe Cincinnati Concert Series in

December 2009 as well as the University of Utah’s 2009 Camerata Evening.

A native of California, Marriott received a bachelor ofscience degree

from the University of Utah. She has completed additional studies at the

Longy School of Music, the University of Maryland School of Music, and the

American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

DAVID CHAPMAN

David Chapman holds degrees and performance diplomas in piano from

the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and Eastman School of Music in

Rochester, New York. At Eastman, Chapman was a concerto soloist, and at

both conservatories he served as an opera coach. He was awarded a Fulbright

grant in solo piano performance for study in Germany. He remained in

Europe for a total of eleven years, during which time he performed recitals

in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Switzerland. Chapman

has recorded for the Siiddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and appeared on German television with

the world-renowned soprano Felicia Weathers. He has played in master

classes for Martina Arroyo, Hans Hotter, Evelyn Lear, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, 

and Felicia Weathers.

Chapman studied orchestral conducting with George Cleve and choral

conducting with Charlene Archibeque. He coached for three years at the

International Bach Academy in Stuttgart under Helmut Rilling, performed

in several Stuttgart Ballet premieres, and collaborated with Fernando Bujones

ofthe American Ballet Theatre.

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A founding member of Vocal Arts International, a network ofworldwide

cultural exchanges among singers, Chapman has given master classes at

the Moscow conservatory, the Shanghai Opera House and Conservatory, the

Universities of Oklahoma and Nebraska. Chapman is on the adjunct faculty

roster at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and serves as music director

and pianist at Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church in Adelphi, Maryland. He is a member ofthe Friday Morning Music Club and the National

Association ofTeachers of Singing (nats), and collaborates as pianist and

coach with the internationally known dramatic soprano Alessandra Marc.

DANIEL HEIFETZ

Daniel Heifetz, founder and director ofthe Heifetz International Music

Institute, is a world-renowned violinist who has appeared in recitals and

solo performances with the Berlin, Cleveland, and Philadelphia orchestras.

His concert tours have included performances throughout Asia, Central

and South America, Europe, and the United States as well as a recital at the

National Gallery in November 1990. Heifetz has served as professor of violin

at Carnegie Mellon University, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the

University of Maryland College Park, and has given master classes throughout

the world. Winner ofboth the Merriweather Post competition in Washington,

DC, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has participated in major television and radio programs in the United States and

Canada. Bom in California, Heifetz began his violin studies at age six. Among

his mentors and teachers were Ivan Galamian, David Oistrakh, Henryk

Szyerng, and Efrem Zimbalist.

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SCOTT SABO

Scott Sabo attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and completed his

undergraduate and graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, 

where he received training in Dalcroze Eurhythmies. In the early stages of

his career, he was a member ofboth the United States Marine Band (‘The

President’s Own”) and the United States Army band. He has subsequently

performed with the Richmond (Virginia), Charleston (West Virginia), and

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Harrisburg

Opera Association, and has served as a competition judge for various national

and local trumpet associations. He recently performed in the National

Theatre production of West Side Story. He is currently the principal trumpeter

ofthe Maryland Symphony Orchestra and second trumpeter ofthe Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

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Next Week at the National Gallery of Art

Foundling Ensemble

Music by Boccherini and other composers

Presented in honor of Luis Melendez: Master ofthe Spanish Still Life

May 17, 2009

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court