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COVER: Johann Georg von Dillis, A Royal Party Admiring the Sunset atop the Hesselberg

Mountain, 1801. National Gallery ofArt, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen collection, 

purchased as the gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

The Sixty-ninth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,794th Concert

Jasmine Choi, flutist

September 27, 2010

Monday afternoon, 12:10 and 2:00 pm

West Building, Gallery G-37

Admissionfree
Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Partita in A Minorfor Solo Flute, BWV 1013 (1723)

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Bouree anglais

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Fantasy in A Minor (1727)

Siegfried Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Sonata appassionata in F-sharp Minor, op. 140 (1917)
The Musician

Associate Principal Flute ofthe Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jasmine 

Choi won the 2004 Astral Artists National Auditions and subsequently

joined its roster of young performers. She has been featured in “Rising

Stars” concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Kimmel Center for

the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Choi has been a soloist with the 

Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), the kbs (Korean Broadcast

System) Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Salzburg

Mozarteum Orchestra, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, and the symphony 

orchestras of Seoul, Korea and Saint Petersburg, Russia. She has also

performed at Disney Hall (Los Angeles), the Dvorak and Smetana Halls

(Prague), Wigmore Hall (London), and the Musikverein Golden Hall and

Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna). Among her competition honors are first

prizes in The Juilliard School’s 2005 Concerto Competition, the 2004

Yamaha Young Artist Competition, and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2002

Albert M. Greenfield Concerto Competition. An avid chamber musician,

Choi has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival and was a member of

the Astral Winds and Trio Morisot. She holds a bachelor of music degree 

from the Curtis Institute of Music and a master ofmusic degree from the 

Juilliard School.

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Program Notes

Over the course ofthree decades, Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997) assembled

a stunning collection of drawings. The German drawings from his collection

range from the seventeenth-century baroque and eighteenth-century rococo

to nineteenth-century romanticism and realism. They include studies for soaring religious ceilings by some ofthe greatest South German artists, designs 

for rococo prints by artists who worked in Augsburg, landscape watercolors

by Johann Georg von Dillis and Caspar David Friedrich, architectural watercolors by various artists, and realist drawings by Adolph Menzel, who was

an avid music lover and ardent admirer of Robert and Clara Schumann.

German Master Drawingsfrom the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580-1900, is

the first exhibition ofthe remarkable highlights ofthis great collection. It

remains on view at the National Gallery until November 28, 2010.

To honor the exhibition, Jasmine Choi has chosen three works from her

repertoire ofsolo works by German composers from the eighteenth and

nineteenth centuries. The eighteenth century in Germany saw a flowering

ofinterest in music for the flute, thanks in great measure to the innovations 

in flute design and the writings ofJohann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773), the

court flutist and composer to Fredrick 11 of Prussia (who was himself a flutist

ofsufficient skill to perform some of Quantz’s compositions in public).

Quantz introduced refinements to the design ofthe instrument, performed

on it before dignitaries and musicians from all other parts of Europe, and

wrote extensive treatises on flute playing, tuning, and music in general.

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Interest in the flute and demand for improvements in its design continued into the nineteenth century in Germany. In the 1830s composers and 

performers alike were calling for flutes with a louder sound. Theobald Boehm

(1794-1881), a Munich craftsman and inventor who played the flute, devised

a system in which all the holes were of an ideal size and position for loudness and purity oftone. Because this put many holes beyond reach ofthe 

fingers, he also had to invent a mechanism to control the keys and rings that

covered the holes. This mechanism was later adapted to control the keywork

of all other woodwind instruments. The Boehm flute is made of metal—

silver or gold for professionals, less expensive metals for students and 

amateurs—and remains the standard design for the modern concert flute.

Program notes by Stephen Ackert, head, music department, National Gallery

ofArt

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Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Duo Miller-Schmid

Music by for cello and piano by

Chopin, Schnittke, and Schumann

September 29, 2010

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

West Building Lecture Hall

Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio

Music by Beethoven, Dvorak, and Newman

October 3, 2010

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court