CONCERTS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Under the Direction of George Manos

NOVEMBER 1997

2 National Gallery Orchestra

George Manos, conductor

Handel/Harty:

Porter:

Hindemith:

Bizet:

Water Music

Musicfor Strings

Five Pieces

Symphony No. 1

9 Jon Humphrey, tenor

Raymond Hanson, pianist

16 The Peabody Trio 

23 Kemal Gekic, pianist

30 National Gallery Orchestra

George Manos, conductor

DECEMBER 1997

7 Todd Crow, pianist

14 Dunsmuir Piano Quartet

Lieder by Schubert, Schumann,

Brahms, and Hugo Wolf

Kagel:

Dvorak:

Trio

“Dumky ” Trio

Liszt: Six Consolation

Transcendental

Etudes

Chopin: Andante spianato et

grandepolonaise

Puccini:

Bizet:

Persichetti:

Weber:

Preludio sinfonico

“Carmen” Suite #/

Serenade No. 5

Symphony No. 1

Schubert:

Bartok:

Haydn:

Sonata, D. 960

Dance Suite

Sonata in C Major

Piano Trios and Quartets by

Brahms, Haydn, and Robert

Helps

The use ofcameras or recording equipment during

theperformance is not allowed.

Forthe convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30pm.

The Fifty-sixth Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and 

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery ofArt

2243d Concert

PETER ORTH, pianist

Sunday Evening, October 26, 1997

at Seven O’Clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission Free
PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major

(1770-1827) Opus 27, No. 1 (1800-1801)

Andante

Allegro molto e vivace

Adagio con espressione

Allegro vivace

Karol Szymanowski Sonata No. 3

(1882-1937) Opus 36 (1917)

(Played in one movement)

Presto, Adagio mesto, Fuga: Allegro moderato

INTERMISSION

Maurice Ravel Vaises nobles et sentimentales

(1875-1937) (1911)

La valse

(Poeme choreographique)(1921)

The National Gallery is pleased to welcome as guest artist

PETER ORTH, who has graciously agreed to substitute for pianist Alexei Lubimov on just a few days’ notice. Peter Orth was

born in Philadelphia in January 1954. At age three he was demanding to be placed on the piano bench and by the time he

was six, he knew that music and the piano would be his life. In

his early years, Peter Orth studied many musical instruments,

among them the violin, which for a time seriously competed

with the piano for primacy. His love of chamber music also dates

from that time. After completing studies with the legendary

Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School, he was invited to Vermont’s

Marlboro Music Festival by Rudolf Serkin, who subsequently

asked Mr. Orth to remain and study privately with him.

In 1979 Peter Orth won First Prize in the Naumburg International Piano Competition, held in memory ofWilliam Kapell, an

award that catapulted him into the American musical mainstream. Not long afterwards, he was named recipient of both

the 92nd Street Y’s “Shura Cherkassky Recital Award” and The

Fanny Peabody Mason Award in Boston. In 1988 he was one of

23 Steinway artists (out of more than 900) invited to participate in the historic Carnegie Hall concert and telecast celebrating the 135th anniversary of Steinway & Sons and the creation

of its 500,000th piano.

Peter Orth has been guest soloist with many of the nation’s

most distinguished orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic, and the symphonies of

Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Pittsburgh, and Saint

Louis. In Europe he has been heard with the Residentie Orkest

Den Haag, l’Orchestre de Lyon, the Augsburg Philharmonic

Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the

Orquesta Nacional de Espana. The list of conductors with whom

he has collaborated reads like a “Who’s Who” of major maestri:

Herbert Blomstedt, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Gunther

Herbig, Raymond Leppard, Zubin Mehta, and Leonard Slatkin.

Peter Orth has given concerts in New York City’s Carnegie

Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and 92nd Street Y, at

Washington’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, and at

Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall. He is a familiar guest

artist at the famed festivals of Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Aspen, Bad Kissingen, and Kuhmo, Finland, and an active and esteemed chamber musician, performing with the Auryn and Muir

String Quartets. He has also toured with Music from Marlboro.

In addition to this concert at the National Gallery, Mr. Orth’s

current season includes appearances with the Auryn Quartet for

the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, concertos with the

Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, and a return engagement at New York City’s 20th Century Masters Festival. A

Steinway artist, Peter Orth records for Diavolo Records and CPO/

Westdeutscher Rundfunk and appears at the Gallery by arrangement with Parker Artists of New York City.