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The Seventy-Third Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

3,031st Concert

Ensemble Galilei

Shannon Heaton, Irish flute and whistles

Ryan McKasson, fiddle

Jackie Moran, drums

Sue Richards, harp

Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viola da gamba

December 28, 2014

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court
Program

Traditional Scottish

Away in the Manger (Flow Gently, Sweet Afton)

Anonymous

Polonessa Spoof(taught to Hanneke Cassel by Antti Jarvela)

Thirteenth-Century Plainsong

Divinum mysterium

Scottish Gaelic Carol

Taladh ar Sldnaigheir (Christ Child Lullaby)

Marin Marais (1656-1728)

Minuet

Caprice

Traditional Irish, from O’Neill’s Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913)

At Midnight Hour

Joy Be with You

Sixteenth-Century English

Greensleeves

Jackie Moran

Amy’s Waltz

Eighteenth-Century Scottish

IfLove Be the Cause ofMy Mourning

Traditional Swedish

Goren’s

Amanda

INTERMISSION

Traditional Irish, from O’Neill’s Irish Minstrels and Musicians

The Surround

Mark Kelly

Snowy Path

Moran

HalfC

Traditional Catalan

Carol ofthe Birds

Carolyn Surrick

Lindsay’s Keys

Traditional Irish Carol

The Wexford Carol

Traditional Shetland Dance

Shetland Reel

Traditional Scottish

Douglas and Fiona

Traditional Scottish

Bonnie at Morn

Sue Richards

Miss Abbott

Franz Gruber (1787-1863)

Silent Night

Sixteenth-Century English

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

From Piae Cantiones (1582)

Good King Wenceslas
The Musicians

ENSEMBLE GALILEI

One ofAmerica’s eminent Celtic and folk music ensembles, Ensemble Galilei

was founded in 1990 by viola da gambist Carolyn Anderson Surrick, who 

writes: “We are musicians who bring a hundred different perspectives to our

music making. We each have our own musical inner life; together we share

the sum ofour study and work. We are every teacher who encouraged us, 

every fiddler who thrilled us, every mentor who showed us the way. Some of

us spent years in university and conservatory practice rooms, others spent

countless days listening to the legends play, and nights in pubs learning tunes.

From these very different elements this evening’s concert was created. We find

music that speaks deeply to us, and we honor the traditions and dialects of

each musical language.”

Shannon Heaton (Irish flute and whistles) honed her traditional style

at innumerable music sessions in Chicago, Ireland, and Boston. With her

guitarist husband, Matt Heaton, she has performed original and traditional

Irish music for audiences on four continents. Her compositions have been

widely recorded, and the Irish-American News dubbed her 2009 Female

Musician ofthe Year. Livelreland recognized Heaton in 2010 and 2011,

naming her “Female Artist ofthe Year” for two years in a row. In addition

to Heaton’s Irish music credentials, she also holds a flute performance

degree from Northwestern University and a diploma di merito from the

Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

Fiddler Ryan McKasson claimed the National Scottish Junior Fiddle 

Championship in 1995 and went on to become the youngest National

Scottish Fiddle Open Champion in 1996. He has shared the stage with Beck,

Bjork, Elvis Costello, Gavin Friday, and composer Philip Glass, among

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

to traditional Scottish folksongs that blend Celtic music with the spirit of

folk-rock and bluegrass.

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Born in Tipperary, Ireland, drummer Jackie Moran immigrated with his

family to Chicago at age ten, where he quickly began drumming with the 

best players in the Irish music scene. Now preeminent in Chicago Irish

music, Moran has been a founder and driving force ofsuch influential

bands as Bua, Comas, the Drovers, Wilding, and the Otters, as well as the

Trinity Irish Dance Company. In the recording studio and on the concert 

stage, he has accompanied the great artists ofthe Irish music scene and has

appeared with Riverdance and in films that feature Irish music, including

Backdraft (1991), Blink (1993), Traveler (1997), and Road to Perdition (2002).

A champion oftraditional music and collector offolk melodies and

dances, harpist Sue Richards studied classical harp in Ohio with Lucy

Lewis and Jean Harriman, later turning to the Irish and Scottish music

ofher heritage. A four-time winner ofthe American National Scottish

Harp Championship, she is now a distinguished judge for the Scottish

Harp Society ofAmerica. She has toured in Ireland, Norway, Scotland, and

Sweden, and has played for Presidents Bush and Clinton and for Queen

Elizabeth. A past president ofthe Scottish Harp Society ofAmerica and 

the Washington, DC, Folk Harp Society, Richards is a composer of original 

tunes and several books of arrangements.

The founder of Ensemble Galilei and a graduate ofthe University of

California at Santa Cruz and George Washington University, viola da gambist Carolyn Anderson Surrick is known affectionately to the members of

the group as “Navigatrix,” attesting to her uncanny ability to keep the group 

on the road and bring new projects to fruition. In collaboration with the

ensemble, she has partnered with the Hubble Space Telescope Institute

to create A Universe ofDreams, a program of poetry, images, and music; 

with the National Geographic Society on First Person: Storiesfrom the Edge

ofthe World; and with the Metropolitan Museum ofArt on First Person:

Seeing America. She is the author of a book of poetry—Between War and

Here—inspired by her experiences playing for wounded soldiers at the 

Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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Upcoming Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Momenta String Quartet

Music by Glass, Janacek, and Nathan

January 9, 2015

Friday, 3:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Members ofthe National Gallery ofArt Orchestra

and the Saint Petersburg (Russia) State Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Lande, guest conductor

with Marcolivia, violin/viola duo

Music by Bernstein, Mozart, and Rimsky-Korsakov

January 11, 2015

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Federico Agostini, violinist

Enrico Elisi, pianist

Music by Respighi and other Italian composers 

Cosponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, DC

January 18, 2015

Sunday, 3:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

National Gallery ofArt Vocal Ensemble and Chamber Players

with lecturers Laura Benedetti and Peter Lukehart

Lectures on Torquato Tasso and music by Monteverdi

January 25, 2015

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building Lecture Hall and West Garden Court

National Gallery ofArt Chamber Players

Music by Lorenzo de’ Medici and other

Italian Renaissance composers

In honor of Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of

Painting in Renaissance Florence

February 1, 2015

Sunday, 3:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court