Upcoming Events of the SeventyFifth Season of The William

Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot

Belin Concerts

Eya

Florence: The Cultural Crucible

Presented in honor of Della Robbia:

Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence

March 4,12:00 and 2:00

West Building, West Garden Court

Ji, piano

March 5, 3:30

West Building, West Garden Court

Alexander Wu, piano and the Serendip Trio

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

Return to Camelot: Music from the Kennedy

White House Concerts, 7967 - 7963

March 8,12:10

West Building, East Garden Court

Cappella Pratensis

Commemorating the 500th anniversary of

Hieronymus Bosch's death

March 12, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

Inscape

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

March 15,12:10

West Building Lecture Hall

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and all of its programs is free of charge,

except as noted.

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during the performance is not allowed.

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through the generosity of donors to the

National Gallery of Art through The Circle.

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of their support. Please contact the

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The department of music produced these

program notes. Copyright © 2077 Board of

Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Cover J. Cartwright after George Beck,

Georgetown and the Federal City of Washington

(detail), 1801, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Otis T. Bradley

Kruger Brothers and Kontras Quartet

Appalachian Concerto

Presented in honor of East of the

Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century

American Landscape Photography

March 19, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

75TH SEASON 

OF CONCERTS

MARCH 1, 2017 • NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
MARCH 1

12:10 • West Building, West Garden Court

Carmen Balthrop, soprano

Jose Caceres Danielsen, piano

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays”

Sponsored by the Billy Rose Foundation

The Heart of a Woman

Arr. Camille Nickerson (1888-1982)

Three Creole Folk Songs

"Chere, mo lemme toi"

"Fais do do”

"Michieu Banjo”

David DiChiera (b. 1935)

Four Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Time Does Not Bring Relief”

"Loving You Less Than Life”

"I Being Born a Woman"

"What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Despite and Still, op. 41

"A Last Song" (Robert Graves)

"My Lizard" (Theodore Roethke)

"In the Wilderness" (Robert Graves)

"Solitary Hotel" (James Joyce)

"Despite and Still” (Robert Graves)

H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)

Selections from Nightsongs

"Sence You Went Away" (James Weldon Johnson)

"Creole Girl" (Leslie M. Collins)

Charles Davidson (b. 1929)

"The Butterfly," from / Never Saw Another Butterfly (Pavel Friedman)

Lee Hoiby (1926-2011)

"The Serpent," from Songs from Leontyne (Theodore Roethke)

The Musicians

Carmen Balthrop

Acclaimed by the Washington Post as "electrifying... a consummate performer," and as

"a voice of power and uncommon tonal purity," by the New York Times, Carmen Balthrop has

an astonishing range of repertoire from baroque opera to contemporary song literature.

She has appeared with most of the major opera companies in North America, including the

Metropolitan, Canadian, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, Seattle, and Houston operas. She

made her Broadway debut in the Palace Theater, and her European tours include the opera

houses of Venice, Spoleto, and Berlin. Her orchestral appearances include oratorio and

concert performances with the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony, as well

as the Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, and Detroit

Symphony Orchestras. As a recitalist, she has performed at the White House, the Kennedy 

Center, and Carnegie Hall. Internationally, she has performed in Italy, the Netherlands,

Taiwan, Russia, China, Mexico, and the Bahamas. Balthrop's discography, found on the

Deutsche Grammophon, Elan, New World, and Fonit Cetra labels, includes the title roles in

Scott Joplin's Treemonisha and Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Her compact

discs The Art of Christmas, Volume I and The Art of Christmas, The Original were heralded 

by the Washington Post as "a must have on everyone's Christmas recording list." Balthrop

regularly collaborates with contemporary composers, including Dominick Argento, Leslie

Burrs, Frank Proto, and Robert Greenleaf. Balthrop is a professor of voice and chairs the

voice department at the University of Maryland School of Music. She is a member of the

University of Maryland's Hall of Fame.

Jose Caceres Danielsen

Critically acclaimed as a musician of virtuosity and versatility, pianist Jose Caceres Danielsen has concertized extensively as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United

States, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. In constant demand as

a collaborative pianist in art song recitals, his appearances include the Irving S. Gilmore

International Keyboard Festival, the San Antonio Music Festival, the Marian Anderson

International Vocal Arts Competition and Festival, the Library of Congress, the National

Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and a five-city tour

throughout the Netherlands.

Caceres Danielsen received his bachelor and master of music degrees from the

University of Maryland, where he was a scholarship student of Thomas Schumacher.

A major prizewinner in national and international competitions, his numerous accolades 

include top prizes at the Teresa Carreno International Piano Competition of Venezuela,

the Young Soloists' Competition of the National Symphony Orchestra, and the John F.

Kennedy Center's Fellowships of the Americas National Program Award.

Caceres Danielsen frequently adjudicates in competitions and gives master classes

throughout the United States and abroad. He is the artistic advisor of the Steinway Society 

of Puerto Rico.