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The use of cameras or recording equipment during

thThe use of cameras or recording equipment during the

performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off.

Please note that late entry or reentry of

the West Building after 6:30 pm is not permitted.

Music Department

National Gallery ofArt 

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, DC

Mailing address

2000B South Club Drive

Landover, md 20785

www.nga.gov

The Sixty-seventh Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt 

2,734th Concert

Washington Sangerbund

David Montgomery, conductor and pianist

with

National Gallery Chamber Orchestra

National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble

June 28, 2009

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
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Program

Leopold Syre (1887-1930)

Sangergruss (Greeting in Song)

From the Classical and Early Romantic Eras

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

An die Musik (To Music), D. 547

Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree), D.795/5

Arranged by Heinrich Geiger

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

An den Vetter (To My Cousin), Hob. xxvib

Die Beredsamkeit (Eloquence), Hob. xxvb/4)

Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860)

Annchen von Tharau

(Men’s Choir)

Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800)

Der Mond ist aufgegangen (The Moon Has Risen)

Arranged by David Montgomery

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Die Ehre Gottes in der Natur (God’s Glory in Nature), op. 48/4

September Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

18 National Gallery Brass Quintet

Hispanic music in honor of

Hispanic Heritage Month

Friday, 5:30 pm~7:i5 pm

Sculpture Garden

20 National Gallery Orchestra

Jose Serebrier, guest conductor

Carole Farley, soprano

Hispanic music in honor of

Hispanic Heritage Month

Sunday at 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

25 Brazilian Guitar Quartet

Hispanic music in honor of

Hispanic Heritage Month and 

The Art ofPower: Royal Armor

and Portraitsfrom Imperial Spain

Friday, 5:30 pm-7:15 pm

Sculpture Garden

27 Poulenc Trio

Hyunah Yu, soprano

Music by Duparc, Faure,

and other French composers

Presented in honor of

The Darker Side ofLight:

Arts ofPrivacy, 1850-1900

Sunday at 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court
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Members ofthe National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble participating

in this concert are:

Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director and soprano

Stephen White, tenor

Gisele Becker, soprano

Ole Hass, tenor

Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano

Steven Combs, baritone

Roger Isaacs, countertenor

Peter Becker, bass-baritone

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From the Court of Frederick n of Prussia

Franz Benda (1709-1786)

Concerto in G Majorfor Keyboard and Strings

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante con moto

ill. Allegro scherzando

From the High Romantic and post-Romantic Eras

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Abschied vom Walde (Farewell to the Forest), op. 59/3

Psalm 100 (Jauchzet dem Herrn-Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

In stiller Nacht (In the Stillness of Night), WoO 33/42

Och, Moder, ich well en Ding han

Arranged by Brahms/Montgomery

Ungarischer Tanz (Hungarian Dance) no. 6

Arrangement and Text: Kurt Gunth

Adolf Frey-Vollen (b. 1925)

Der Rufnach Frieden (The Call for Peace)

Arranged for choir and string orchestra by f.R. Dane

Carl Bohm (1844-1920)

Still wie die Nacht (Calm as the Night)
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The Musicians

WASHINGTON SANGERBUND

The Washington Sangerbund was founded in 1851 by a few young Germans

who had previously sung with the choir ofthe Concordia Church in Northwest Washington, DC., and decided to organize a “German Singing Society.”

It was the first such organization to be chartered in the city. In 1865 the

Sangerbund sang at the funeral ofAbraham Lincoln. In more recent generations, the ensemble has presented the world premiere performances of

works by several German composers and the United States premiere of Felix

Mendelssohn’s Magnificat in B-jlat Major. Now in its 158th year, this allvolunteer ensemble of amateur singers—some ofwhom are the children

and grandchildren of Sangerbiindler—continues to dedicate its activities 

to fostering German language and culture through song. Most recently, it

performed with the National Gallery Orchestra as the host choir for the 50th

regional Sangerfest for the northeast United States, held at the National

Building Museum. Additional information about the Washington Sangerbund can be found at www.saengerbund.org.

DAVID MONTGOMERY

Washington Sangerbund conductor David Montgomery is music director ofthe 

Prince William Symphony Orchestra and Prince William Baroque in northern

Virginia. He is choirmaster and director ofmusic ministries at Bethel Lutheran 

Church in Manassas, Virginia. Montgomery trained as a pianist and opera 

conductor at the Oberlin College Conservatory ofMusic and the Berlin Hochschule fur Musik, and later with Rene Leibowitz in Paris. He was an opera 

chorus master in Giessen, Germany, as well as at the Lyon Opera in France, the 

San Francisco Opera, and the Opera Company ofBoston. From 1995-2000 he 

served as principal guest conductor ofthe Jena Philharmonic in Germany.

Montgomery has appeared throughout Europe and the United States as a

piano soloist, as a four-hand player with partners Paul Hersh and Camelia

Sima, and as a chamber musician. He has recorded for bmg Arte Nova, Klavier

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Records International, and rca Victor Red Seal. A recognized authority on

historical performance in the Viennese classical period, he is the author of

Franz Schubert’s Music in Performance (Pendragon Press), as well as many

articles in international scholarly journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles and has taught at the University ofCalifornia

at Santa Barbara, held the post ofvisiting professor at Tulane University, and

at the College of William and Mary.

NATIONAI. GALLERY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

The National Gallery Orchestra was founded in 1943 and initially consisted of

approximately twenty-five players drawn from the National Symphony Orchestra. Gradually growing in numbers, the Gallery orchestra eventually reached

the size and status of a large chamber orchestra. The ensemble has undertaken the full range of chamber and symphonic repertoire and has frequently

presented first performances ofworks by American composers, most notably 

the 1953 premiere ofCharles Ives’ Symphony no. 1 under the direction of

Richard Bales, the 1990 premiere of Daniel Pinkham’s Symphony no. 4 under

George Manos, and the 2007 premiere of Later the Same Evening: An opera

inspired byfive paintings ofEdward Hopper, under guest conductor Glen Cortese.

In September 2008 the orchestra completed a highly successful concert tour

in North Carolina, under the direction of guest conductor Vladimir Lande.

NATIONAL GALLERY VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE

The National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble is now in its fifth season as a

chamber choir under the leadership ofits artistic director, Rosa Lamoreaux. 

To date, the choir has presented eight special programs in honor of Gallery

exhibitions, including part-songs and anthems by nineteenth-century

English composers in honor of The Artist’s Vision: Romantic Traditions in

Britain (2006). In January 2009 the singers were guest artists at the Sonora, 

Mexico, Music Festival, where they sang a program of Spanish and Hispanic

choral music.