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performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

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Please note that late entry or reentry of

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Music Department

National Gallery ofArt

Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue nw

Washington, DC

Mailing address

2000B South Club Drive

Landover, md 20785

www.nga.gov

The Sixty-seventh Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,699th Concert

National Gallery Orchestra

New Year Concert

Manfred Knoop, guest conductor

Eva Lind, soprano

December 28, 2008

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)

Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz), op. 437

Franz Lehar (1870-1948)

Meine Lippen sie kussen so heiss (My Lips Kiss So Fervently)

Johann Strauss Jr.

Indigo Marsch (Indigo March), op. 349 

Johann Strauss Jr.

Banditen Galopp (Bandits’ Galop), op. 378

Johann Strauss Jr.

Mein Herr Marquis

from Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss Jr.

Haute volee (High Flight), op. 155

Johann Strauss Jr.

Unter Donner und Blitz (Under Thunder and Lightning), op. 324

Johann Strauss Jr.

Fruehlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), op. 410

INTERMISSION

Johann Strauss Jr.

Overture to Die Fledermaus (The Bat), op. 362

Franz Lehar 

Vilja

from The Merry Widow

Johann Strauss Jr.

Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Tittle-Tattle Polka), op. 214

Johann Strauss Jr.

Hunting Polka, op. 373

Johann Strauss Jr.

Rosesfrom the South, op. 388
The Musicians

NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA

The National Gallery Orchestra was founded in 1943 and initially consisted 

of approximately twenty-five players drawn from the National Symphony

Orchestra. Gradually growing in numbers, the Gallery orchestra eventually

reached the size and status of a large chamber orchestra. The ensemble has 

undertaken the full range of chamber and symphonic repertoire and has 

frequendy presented first performances ofworks by American composers, 

most notably the 1953 premiere ofCharles Ives’ Symphony no. 1 under the 

direction of Richard Bales and the 1990 premiere of Daniel Pinkham’s

Symphony no. 4 under George Manos.

This evening marks the forty-second New Year concert presented by the 

National Gallery Orchestra. The orchestra’s founder, Richard Bales, inaugurated the tradition on January 2,1966, taking a cue from the famous New

Year concerts at the Musikverien in Vienna. In these festive celebration, the 

reaction ofthe audience to sublime moments, favorite tunes, and musical

jokes on stage is as important as the music itself. The familiar music evokes

not only nostalgia for beauty and happiness past, but also energy, liveliness,

humor, and hope, as it carries us—now whirling in a waltz, now pulsating

in a march—through the present time and into the future. This concert has

come to be a beloved favorite in Washington, and it is offered as a heartfelt

wish, expressed in music, for a happy and prosperous New Year.

MANFRED KNOOP

Manfred Knoop is an accomplished performer, conductor, composer, and 

teacher. Bom in Heiden, Germany, Knoop studied at the University of Munster before relocating to the United States, where he attended the Manhattan 

School of Music and received both the bachelor ofscience and master of

science degrees in music. He has also pursued additional studies in organ,

piano, trumpet, vocal performance, and conducting.

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Knoop is currently music director at the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic

Church in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the Sangerchor Newark (since 1978), and 

the Schwabischer Sangerbund, New Jersey (since 1985). He also finds many

opportunities to present special concerts with full orchestra, both with 

sacred and secular music, including his classic concert series at St. Elizabeth

and his new concert series at the Wyckoffymca. His New Year’s Day Strauss 

Gala, now in its eighth year, is performed to sold-out houses annually.

Knoop has led many of his chomses on tours to Europe, with performances in Assisi, Berlin, Cologne, Dublin, Lisbon, Madrid, Monte Carlo,

Paris, Rome, Venice, and Windsor. As the owner of a professional recording

studio, he is involved in the production and recording ofmany renowned

artists. In 1998, he started his own jazz label, “Twinz Records.” His first CD

was a production in honor of Lionel Hampton’s 90th birthday celebration.

Since then, Knoop has recorded and released many successful CDs for

numerous u.s. and international musicians. One ofhis special interests is

Latin Jazz. This led him to record Paquito De Rivera’s Funk Tango, which 

won the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz CD.

EVA LIND

At the age of nineteen, Eva Lind made her professional debut as Queen of

the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera and starred as

Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel. These two sensational 

events marked the beginning of an international career that has allowed her

to appear on the world’s major opera and concert stages such as Berlin,

Buenos Aires, Cologne, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Naples,

Paris, and Zurich. Recent operatic roles have included Constanze in Mozart’s

The Abductionfrom the Seraglio, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Juliette in Gounod’s

Romeo et Juliet, Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Violetta in Verdi’s

La Traviata, among others.

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Lind is an active recitalist, with repertoire including works by Berg,

Brahms, Debussy, Faure, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Satie, Schubert, Schumann,

Strauss, Wolf, and others. As a concert soloist she has performed Beethoven’s

Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Brahms’ Requiem, Haydn’s Creation,

Mendelssohn’s Hymn ofPraise, Mozart’s Missa in C Minor, Orffs Carmina

Burana, Poulenc’s Gloria, and many more.

Lind’s festival appearances include Arena di Verona, Glyndeboume

Festival, Munich Opera Festival, The Salzburg Festival, The Schleswig-Holstein 

Musik Festival, and Schubertiade Feldkirch to name a few. She has shared the

stage with renowned singers such as Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras, Placido

Domingo, and Thomas Hampson, and has worked closely with the world’s

most noted conductors including Claudio Abbado, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt

Masur, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Andre Previn, 

Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Sir Georg Solti.

From 2003-2007, Eva Lind hosted the show “StraRe der Lieder”

(“Street of Songs”) on ard (Germany’s oldest public broadcasting network),

proving once more that her artistic versatility extends beyond the stage and

into the area of popular music.

The Sixty-seventh Season ofConcerts

at the National Gallery ofArt

January 2009

All concerts in the West Building, West Garden Court*

JANUARY

4 National Gallery String Quartet

with Menahem Pressler, pianist

Music by Mozart and Schumann

11 Ma’alot Wind Quintet

Music by Barber, Ligeti,

Mendelssohn, and Piazzolla 

Presented in conjunction with

the Mendelssohn on the Mall

anniversary celebration

* Preceded at 6:00 pm by a

preconcert talk on Mendelssohn

and the visual arts

West Building Lecture Hall

18 National Gallery Orchestra

Kenneth Slowik, guest conductor

Music by Mendelssohn and Schubert

Presented in conjunction with

Mendelssohn on the Mall

25 Fine Arts Quartet

String Quartets by Mendelssohn

Presented in conjunction with

Mendelssohn on the Mall

* unless otherwise indicated