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Music Department

National Gallery ofArt

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, DC

www.nga.gov

cover: Raphael, The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505,

National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection

The Sixty-ninth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,814th Concert

Ensemble Galilei

Isaac Alderson, flute and pipes

Ryan McKasson, fiddle

Jackie Moran, percussion and banjo

Sue Richards, Celtic harp

Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viola da gamba

Stephen Ackert, narrator

December 12, 2010

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

“A Musical Holiday Card from the National Gallery ofArt”

Traditional Scottish Carols (Fifteenth Century)

Coventry Carol

Rorate

Traditional Shetland Tunes

Christmas Day i’da Moomin’

Lasses Trust in Providence

Jack Broke the Prison Door

Sleep Sound in the Momin’

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Puer Nobis (1609)

Traditional English Carol

My Dancing Day

Basque Carol

The Angel Gabriel

Traditional English Carol

The Holly and the Ivy

Traditional Irish Air 

Pretty Girl Milking the Cow

Traditional Irish

Jezebel Carol

Plainsong (Ninth Century)

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Traditional Scottish

Away in a Manger

Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)

Silent Night

Fourteenth-Century Dance

Saltarello

Sixteenth-Century French Carol 

Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella

INTERMISSION

Traditional Irish Carol 

Christ Child Lullaby

Swedish Bridal March

Klovsjo Brudmarsch

Polish Tunes, arranged by Karl Erik Nygard 

Polska av Jakob Aslund

Slangpolskafrom Smaland

Praetorius

Lo, How A Rose

Fourteenth-Century German Carol 

In dulci Jubilo
Sixteenth-Century English Carol and Air

The First Noel

Green Sleeves

Arranged by John Playford (1623-c. 1687)

Traditional Irish Tune

Full-Rigged Ship

Traditional Appalachian Tune

Cluck Old Hen

From Southern Harmony (1835)

What Wondrous Love Is This?

John Harling 

Dusty Windowsills

Sue Richards

The Celt

Traditional English Carol

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

'The Musicians

ENSEMBLE GALILEI

Since its founding in 1990, Ensemble Galilei has redefined the boundaries of

chamber music, created new music, and reinvented traditional programming

in a series ofinnovative projects that explore images, words, and music. It

has collaborated with nasa archivists, taking audiences into space through

the lens ofthe Hubble Space Telescope (“A Universe of Dreams'7); with

curators ofthe National Geographic Image Collection (“First Person: Stories

from the Edge ofthe World"); and most recently with curators of historic 

American photography at the Metropolitan Museum ofArt to create “First

Person, Seeing America.” The ensemble provided a soundtrack using music

ofJ. S. Bach, traditional music from Scotland and Ireland, and new compositions to complement a digital exhibition of photographs by Thomas Eakins,

Walker Evans, Edward Stieglitz, and other photographers, presented with

poetry by James Agee, Lucille Clifton, and Frederick Douglass, among others.

Ensemble Galilei maintains a Web site at www.EGmusic.com and 

appears at the National Gallery by arrangement with Jonathan Wentworth

Associates of Mount Vernon, New York.

ISAAC ALDERSON

A proponent of Irish traditional music since age thirteen, Isaac Alderson 

was, at age nineteen, the first non-Irish person to win three All-Ireland

Championship titles on the same day. He has performed as a flute player

and piper for numerous bands over the subsequent years, most notably with

the dance show Celtic Legends, Celtic fiddler Eileen Ivers, the Irish bands 

Jameson's Revenge and Millish, and the Trinity Irish Dance School. Originally from Chicago, Alderson currently lives in the Bronx, New York.

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RYAN MCKASSON

Fiddler Ryan McKasson claimed the National Scottish Junior Fiddle

Championship in 1995 and went on to become the youngest winner ofthe

National Scottish Fiddle Open Championship in 1996. He has shared the

stage with Beck, Bjork, Elvis Costello, Gavin Friday, and Phillip Glass,

among others. His Seattle-based band, The McKassons, brings an American

spirit, born offolk rock and bluegrass, to traditional Scottish folk music.

JACKIE MORAN

Born in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, Jackie Moran immigrated to

Chicago with his family at age ten. Displaying the intense zeal of a naturalborn musician, he was firmly ensconced in the Chicago Irish music scene 

by the time he was fourteen. He has been a founding member ofmany

popular performing groups, among them Comas, Gan Bua, The Drovers,

The Otters, Trinity Irish Dance Company, and Wilding. On the cutting edge

ofthe Irish music scene, he has toured with Riverdance and has performed

and recorded with Kevin Burke, Dennis Cahill, Liz Carroll, John Doyle,

Martin Hayes, Paddy Keenan, Larry Nugent, and John Williams. Moran’s

percussive stylings have been featured in a number offilms: Backdraft (1991),

Blink (1993), Traveller (1997), and The Road to Perdition (2002). In 2001

Moran and his wife Amy opened Anam Mor, an Irish dance and music

school serving students in the Chicago area.

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SUE RICHARDS

A collector oftunes, with an emphasis on those ofCeltic and Scandinavian 

origin, Sue Richards has played the harp, both pedal and Celtic, since childhood. She has won the Scottish Harp Society ofAmerica championship four

times and has studied and taught in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. A veteran 

ofmany concerts at the Embassy ofIreland in Washington, DC, Richards has 

performed with The Chieftains and the Irish band Ceoltoiri and has played

for Presidents Bush and Clinton and Queen Elizabeth 11. She also performs

with the two-harp duo hen and Harp and Fool with mime Mark Jaster. Her 

solo recordings are available on the Maggie’s Music label.

CAROLYN ANDERSON SURRICK

Carolyn Anderson Surrick started performing early music professionally at

age fourteen, and at sixteen she took up the viola da gamba. While working 

on her bachelor ofmusic degree at the University of California at Santa

Cruz, she became the first student director ofthe university’s early music

ensemble. As a graduate student at George Washington University, she

directed the instrumental ensemble for that school’s early music consort.

In 1990 she started the Music in the Great Hall Series in her hometown of

Annapolis, Maryland, bringing some ofthe finest early and traditional music

to the city. That year she founded Ensemble Galilei, whose members soon

dubbed her “navagatrix,” on account ofher uncanny ability to dream up

original things for the group to do and to make them happen. Surrick has

recorded for Dorian, Maggie’s Music, Telarc, and npr Classics.

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