Music Department

National Gallery of Art

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The Sixty-third Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,517th Concert

National Gallery Orchestra

Joseph Jay McIntyre, guest conductor

Music ofVienna

2 January 2005

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
For the convenience of concertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:oo pm.

The 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 after 6:30 pm is not permitted.

2,517th Concert

2 January 2005, 6:30 pm

Franz von Suppe (1819-1895)

Overture to Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, und ein Abend in Wien (1844)

(Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna)

Josef Strauss (1827-1870)

Polka-Mazurka: Die Libelle, Op. 204 

(Dragonfly Polka)

Polka schnell: Banditen-Galopp, Op. 378

(Bandits’ Galop)

Johann Strauss Jr. and Josef Strauss

Pizzicato-Polka

Josef Strauss

Jokey-Polka, Op. 278

(Jockey Polka)

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)

Champagner-Polka, Op. 211

(Champagne Polka)

Intermission

Johann Strauss Jr.

Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, Op. 325

(Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Polka schnell: Unter Donner and Blitz, Op. 324

(Under Thunder and Lightning)

Josef Strauss

Polka schnell: Ohne Sorgen, Op, 271

(Without a Care)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Rosenkavalierwalzer (1934)

(Waltz Sequence from Der Rosenkavalier)

The Musicians

NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA

The National Gallery Orchestra was founded in 1943 and initially consisted

of approximately twenty-five players who were also members ofthe National 

Symphony. Gradually growing in numbers, it eventually reached the size 

and status of a symphony orchestra. The ensemble undertakes 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’ First Symphony under the direction of Richard Bales.

JOSEPH JAY MCINTYRE

Conductor, composer, and percussionist Joseph Jay McIntyre’s musical

career began early, when he toured as a boy soprano with the Berkshire Boy

Choir. He also sang as boy chorister and soloist for the 1971 premiere of

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at the opening ofthe Kennedy Center. A graduate

ofthe University of Maryland, McIntyre studied conducting with Paul Traver,

John Wakefield, and Leo Driehuys, in addition to studying and performing

traditional music ofJapan, Korea, and Indonesia. He regularly conducts

documentary sound tracks for nhk, the National Japanese Broadcasting 

Network. He has also conducted the Millbroolc Symphony, the Maryland 

Symphony, and the Fairfax Choral Society. McIntyre is currently the principal

timpanist with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. He has toured extensively

in the United States and Japan as a solo marimbist for Affiliate Artists and

appears frequently as a percussionist with the National Symphony Orchestra,

the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the National Gallery Orchestra,

the Millbrook Symphony, and the Richmond Symphony.

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McIntyre’s compositions have been performed throughout the United

States, Europe, and Japan. His Missa Brevis for chorus, organ, and percussion was premiered in 1997 by the Fairfax Choral Society. The version 

for full orchestra and chorus received its premiere performance in 2000

at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of Jonathan Willcocks. McIntyre’s

arrangement ofthe Missa Brevis for brass ensemble was performed by the 

Washington Symphonic Brass in May 2004. His orchestral work Salute/,

commissioned by the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and dedicated to

its former music director, Barry Tuclcwell, was premiered under the composer’s direction on March 21, 1998. Among his other orchestral works

are Echoes ofa Forgotten Dream and The Firth ofForth, which will receive

its premiere at the Strathmore Fine Arts Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in

March 2005. McIntyre’s published chamber works include Rain Dance

for percussion trio (1997)-

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Program Notes

This evening’s concert marks the thirty-ninth presentation of a Viennese

New Year concert at the National Gallery. Richard Bales and the National

Gallery Orchestra presented the first on January 2, 1966. The inspiration for

these gala concerts is the concert that takes place in the famous Musikverein

in Vienna, a tradition that began in 1939. All those who make their way to

hear the Vienna Philharmonic play in that historic hall on New Year’s Day

enjoy an illustrious musical legacy, which includes such giants as Brahms,

Bruckner, Mahler, and the Strauss family. Through the media of print, 

recordings, radio, and television, this annual celebration of Viennese music

has become a world-famous musical event. The presence ofthe audience 

and its reaction to sublime moments, favorite tunes, and musical jokes on 

stage are as important as the players in this festive drama.

The spirit ofthis gala, joyful concert is perfect for a celebration ofthe 

New Year. The familiar music not only evokes nostalgia for beauty and

happiness now past, but also offers energy, liveliness, humor, and hope, as

the music carries us, now whirling in a waltz, now pulsating in a march,

through the present time and into the future.

As the years have gone by, the Viennese concert at the National Gallery

has taken on the significance for Washington that the Musikverein concert 

has for Vienna. It has proven to be one of the Gallery’s most popular concerts, and it is offered as a heartfelt wish, expressed in music, for a happy 

and prosperous New Year.