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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, dc

Mailing address

2000b South Club Drive

Landover, md 20785

www.nga.gov

The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,565th Concert

Rachel Barton Pine, violinist

Matthew Hagle, pianist

March 26, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)

Passacaglia in G Minor for unaccompanied violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Adagio in E Major, K. 261 (1774)

Mozart

Rondo in D Major, K. 382 (1782)

Arranged for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Sonata no. 1 in A Minorfor Violin and Piano, op. 105 (1851)

Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck

Allegretto 

Lebhaft

INTERMISSION

Coleridge Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)

Blue/s Forms for unaccompanied violin (1972)

Plain Blue/s

Just Blue/s

Jettin’ Blue/s

John Corigliano (b. 1938)

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1963)

Allegro

Andantino

Lento

Allegro
Mark O’Connor (b. 1961)

Strings and Threads

Fair Dancer Reel

Sailor’s Jig

Captain’s Jig

Off to Sea

Pilgrim’s Waltz

Road to Appalachia

Shine On

Cotton Pickin’ Blues

Pickin’ Parlor Rag

Queen ofthe Cumberland 

Texas Dance Hall Blues

Swing 11:11

Sweet Suzanne

The Musicians

RACHEL BARTON PINE

American violinist Rachel Barton Pine has inspired audiences worldwide

with her passionate and dedicated musicianship, which she applies to an

extremely diverse repertoire. A Chicago native, she began violin studies at

age three and made her professional debut at age seven with the Chicago

String Ensemble. By the time she was fifteen, she had participated in two

Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts for public television. Her principal

teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos, who are among the leading violin 

and viola instructors in the United States. Pine also studied with Elmira

Darvarova, Ruben Gonzalez, Werner Scholz, and specialists in baroque and

classical period performance practices. She holds prizes from several ofthe

world’s leading competitions, including a gold medal from the 1992 Johann

Sebastian Bach International Violin Competition in Leipzig, Germany. She 

was the first American and the youngest person ever to receive this honor.

Pine’s rapidly advancing career has included solo appearances with 

the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas,

Louisville, Philadelphia, and Saint Louis. She has been invited to perform

overseas with the Belgian National Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmonic

Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, and the Vienna Symphony

Orchestra, among others, and she has worked with such renowned conductors as Semyon Bychkov, Placido Domingo, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Jarvi,

Erich Leinsdorf, and Zubin Mehta. Pine’s chamber music credits include

collaborations with Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Mark

O’Connor, William Warfield, and the Pacifica String Quartet. In November 

2005 she was the featured guest artist on the nationally syndicated radio

show “From the Top,” and she has appeared on “CBS Sunday Morning”

and nbc’s “Today” show.

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Repeatedly honored by her home city, Pine has been Chicago magazine’s “Chicagoan ofthe year” and was named “woman ofthe year” by

Today's Chicago Woman magazine. She devotes a generous portion of her

time to organizations and activities that benefit young musicians, such as

the Mark O’Connor Fiddle Camp, the Music Institute of Chicago, and

various youth orchestras, as well as master classes and competitions, for

which she serves as an adjudicator. She is president ofthe Rachel Elizabeth

Barton Foundation, which encourages and assists young performers

through such projects as an instrument loan program, educational and

career grants, and a music library (The String Students’ Library of Music

by Black Composers).

Rachel Barton Pine plays a Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu violin (Cremona,

1742), known as the “ex-Soldat,” which is on generous loan from her patron. 

She appears at the National Gallery by arrangement with Diane Saldick, llc,

of New York City.

MATTHEW HAGLE

Pianist Matthew Hagle also makes his home in the Chicago area, where

he performs at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Ravinia Festival’s Martin 

Theater, and the Symphony Center, as well as on radio station wfmt.

Known for his presentations of often neglected masterpieces oftwentiethcentury piano repertoire, including works by Elliot Carter, Charles Ives,

Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Arnold Schoenberg, Hagle has performed throughout the United States and in Australia, Great Britain, and 

Japan. He was a laureate ofthe 1997 American Pianists Association 

Competition and was one ofthirty-six pianists chosen to compete in the

2000 Sydney International Piano Competition. He has taught at the

University of Notre Dame, Elmhurst College, and the International Institute

for Young Musicians, and he currently serves on the faculty ofthe Music

Institute of Chicago.

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Since 1999 Hagle has been the principal collaborative pianist for Rachel

Barton Pine, with whom he has performed at the United States Supreme

Court and on such well known national broadcasts as the “Jerry Lewis

Telethon,” “Performance Today,” and “Saint Paul Sunday.” Hagle also performs with members ofthe Chicago Symphony Orchestra and as a piano

duo with his wife, Mio.