Concerts in February and March 2001

Sundays at 7:00 p.m. in the West Building, West Garden Court 

Under the Direction of George Manos

February

25 The Chamber Music Society

of Lincoln Center

David Shifrin, artistic director

March

4 National Gallery Orchestra

George Manos, conductor

11 Osiris Piano Trio

18 Mykola Suk, pianist

25 The Westminster Choir

Joseph Flummerfelt, conductor

Nancianne Parrella, pianist

Rorem: Autumn Music

Mendelssohn: String Quartet,

Op. 87

Chausson: Concerto for Violin,

Strings, and Piano

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4

Haydn: Trio in E-flat Major

Dvorak: “Dumky” Trio

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Haydn: Sonata in E-flat Major

Kolessa: Two Preludes

Thalberg: Fantasy on “Moses in

Egypt”

Works by Victoria, Stravinsky, 

Bruckner, Brahms, Copland,

Durufle, Vaughan Williams,

Menotti, and other composers

Selectionsfrom concerts at the Gallery

can be heard on the second Sunday ofeach month

at 9:00 p.m. on WGMS-FM, 103.5.

The Fifty-ninth Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2373d Concert

JANICE MARTIN, violinist

STEVEN BECK, pianist

Sunday Evening, 18 February 2001

Seven O'clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
PROGRAM

Ludvig van Beethonven Sonata No. 5 in F Major (“Spring”)

(1770-1827) Op. 24 (1800-1801)

Allegro

Adagio molto espressivo 

Scherzo: Allegro molto

Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Sonata in G minor

Claude Debussy 

(1862-1918)

Sergey Rachmaninoff/Jascha Heifetz Daisies

INTERMISSION

After Intermission

Ysaye

Gershwin/Heifetz

Debussy

Rachmaninoff/Heifetz

Sarasate

Encore: Jobim

Debussy

Sonata No. 2

(unaccompanied)

Three Preludes

With the Flaxen Hair

Oriental Sketch

Zigeunerweisen

One-note Samba

Beau Soir

Girl

Violinist Janice Martin has drawn consistent critical acclaim for her

public performances, including debut performances in 1999 at Weill Hall

at Carnegie Hall and at the Barns of Wolf Trap. A native of Racine,

Wisconsin, she studied at the Juilliard and University of Indiana Schools

of Music under Dorothy DeLay, Yuval Yaron, Masao Kawasaki, and

Glenn Dicterow. She has won major competitions throughout the United

States, including the International Young Performer’s Concerto

Competition, the Milwaukee Young Artist’s Competition, and the 2001

Lena Na International Competition. Among the awards she has received 

are the Amadeus Career Grant (1998), a Career Grant Award from the

National Endowment for the Arts (1999), and a Stradivarius Society

Award that enables her to play the 1708 Joseph Burstein Stradivarius, 

formerly known as the Sir Bagshawe. Janice Martin has recorded a solo

CD for Sonoris Records and her collaboration with New York jazz

legend Larry Willis will result in a second CD, soon to be released. The

National Gallery is most grateful to her for agreeing to substitute on

short notice for Leila Josefowicz, who is indisposed.

(Biographical information on Steven Beck was not available as this

program went to press.)

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major is among several of the

works he created while strolling through the Vienna woods in the winter 

of 1792. While Beethoven did not give the title, “Spring, ” to this sonata,

the sunny and optimistic state of mind that it projects certainly warrants

the later addition. Those outings also gave rise to his fourth violin

sonata, his twelfth, fourteenth, and fifteenth piano sonatas, and his String

Quartet, Op. 29. Of those walks in the woods, Beethoven wrote: “My

hearing does not trouble me here. In the country every tree seems to say

to me, ‘Holy, holy’....No mortal can love the country as I do; for woods

and trees and rocks return the echo a man desires.”

For the convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30 p.m.