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As the ancient contemporary music ensemble’s artistic director, I claim that “It sorta snuck up on us.” 

Celebrating our extraordinary longevity, the Consort attributes its countervailing youthfulness to the fact that, after all, it’s constantly doing new music! 

Sure enough, we announce a series of new music concerts as part of our residency at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, celebrating the Museum’s own 50th anniversary. Programs feature music from the mid-20th century period highlighted in “Revolutions,” the HMSG anniversary exhibition, along with major works associated with the Consort’s half-century history, and new and commissioned music.  

First, however, the Consort returns to historic St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill on September 15th, performing a memorial concert for beloved friend and irrepressible iconoclast, the late Paul Schoenfield.

This free September concert will be at St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill at 2:30pm preceded by a pre-concert discussion at 1:30pm.

PROGRAM:
Carolina Reveille
Three Bagatelles
The Return from Sextet
Elegy, Rag and Boogie
Tango and Tin Pan Alley
Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano