Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Under the direction of George Manos

January and February 2003

January

12 Gary Graffman, pianist

19 The Verdehr Trio

Walter Verdehr, violin

Elsa Ludewig Verdehr,

clarinet

Sylvia Roederer, piano

26 The Thomas Zehetmair

Quartet

February

2 Navah Perlman, pianist

9 Jubilant Sykes, baritone

Christopher Parkening,

guitarist

Reinicke: Sonata, Opus 179

Von Sauer: Waldandacht

Chopin/Godowsky: Etudes

J. S. Bach/Brahms: Chaconne in D

Minor

Reger: Four Etudes

Blumenfeld: Etude, Opus 36

Mozart: Trio, K. 358

Fanny Mendelssohn: Romance

Armand Russell: Romance

Tchaikovsky: Entr'acte from

Sleeping Beauty

Joan Tower: Rainwaves

Bright Sheng: Reflections, Tibetan

Dance

Schumann: String Quartet No. 1

Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts

Bartok: String Quartet No. 5

Scarlatti: Sonatas Nos. 104 and 108

Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 109

Bolcom: Nine Bagatelles

Rachmaninoff: Three Preludes

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3

Music of Brazil and the Americas

by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Ponce,

and other composers

The Sixty-first Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2441st Concert

NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA

GEORGE MANOS, conductor

MUSIC OF VIENNA

Sunday Evening, 5 January 2003

Seven O’clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
Program

Johann Strauss Jr.

(1825-1899)

Overture to “Die Fledermaus”

Op. 297

Eduard Strauss

(1827-1916)

Bahn frei (Clear Track)

Polka schnell, Op. 45

Josef Strauss

(1827-1870)

Frauenherz (A Woman’s Heart)

Polka mazurka, Op. 166

Jokey-Polka (Jockey Polka)

Polka schnell, Op. 278

Johann Strauss Jr. Im Krapfenwald (In the Krapf Woods)

Polka frangais, Op. 336

Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz), Op. 437

Furioso Polka, Op. 260

Intermission

Johann Strauss Jr. Par force (By Force)

Op. 308

Stadt und Land (City and Country)

Polka mazurka, Op. 322

Johann Strauss Jr. and Josef Strauss Pizzicato Polka

Johann Strauss Jr. Annen-Polka, Op. 117

Kreuzfidel (Pleased as Punch), Op. 301

Postilion d'amour (Messenger of Love), Op. 317

Perpetuum mobile (Perpetual Motion), Op. 257

Conductor, composer, and pianist George Manos has been director of

music at the National Gallery of Art and conductor of the National Gallery

Orchestra since 1985. He is also artistic director of the American Music

Festival and of the National Gallery vocal and chamber ensembles, which

he founded. Manos’ career as a performing pianist and teacher has

included several years on the faculty of the Catholic University of

America in Washington, DC, where he taught piano, conducting, and

chamber music. In addition, he held the directorship of the Wilmington,

Delaware, School of Music, presenting an annual jazz festival and clinic.

Maestro Manos founded and directed for ten years the renowned Kilarney

Bach Festival in the Republic of Ireland and was the music director of the

1992 Scandinavian Music Festival in Kolding, Denmark.

This evening’s concert marks the thirty-seventh time that a

Viennese New Year concert has been presented at the National Gallery.

Richard Bales and the National Gallery Orehestra presented the first one

on 2 January 1966. The inspiration for these gala concerts is the concert

that takes place in the famous Musikverein in Vienna, a tradition that

began in 1939. All those who make their way to hear the Vienna

Philharmonic play in that historic hall on New Year's Day are part of an

illustrious musical legacy that includes such giants as Brahms, Bruckner,

Mahler, and the Strauss family. Through the medium of recordings, radio,

and television, this annual celebration of Viennese music has become a

world-famous musical event. The presence of the audience and its reaction

to sublime moments, favorite tunes, and musical jokes on stage are as

important as the players in this festive drama.

The spirit of this gala, joyful concert is perfect for a celebration of

the New Year. In this familiar music there is not only nostalgia for beauty

and happiness now past, but also energy, liveliness, humor, and hope, as

the music carries us, now whirling in a waltz, now pulsating in a march,

through the present time and into the future.

As the years have gone by, the Viennese concert at the National

Gallery has taken on the significance for Washington that the Musikverein

concert has for Vienna. It has proven to be one of the Gallery’s most

popular concerts, and it is offered as a heartfelt wish, expressed in music,

for a happy and prosperous New Year.
PETER WILSON 

Guest Conductor

The National Gallery and the members of the National Gallery Orchestra 

wish to thank PETER WILSON, who agreed to conduct this program 

when George Manos became ill this week

Peter Wilson serves as Resident Conductor of the Catholic University 

Symphony in Washington, D.C. He is a twelve year veteran of

“The President’s Own,” and performs at the White House as violin

soloist, chamber musician and section leader with the Marine Orchestra.

He also makes appearances throughout the United States as guest

conductor, concertmaster, and performance clinician.