The Concert Season

2023–2024 Season at Hirshhorn Museum & St. Mark’s

  • DAVID FROOM: echoes, resonance and remembrance

    at 5pm on Saturday September 162023

    St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill – a heartfelt tribute to the late composer, educator, and 21st Century Consort board member, with Thomas Meglioranza, baritone soloist.

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    David Froom
    Quintet
    David Froom
    Ribbons
    David Froom
    Saxophone Quartet (Project Fusion Saxophone Quartet)
    Jeffrey Mumford
    Resonant Echoes
    Robert Gibson
    Prayer
    David Froom
    Amachai Songs
  • Doppelgangers

    at 5pm on Saturday October 282023

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – a view of the HMSG exhibition “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China” through a musical lens, and an unhinged nod to Halloween, too.

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    Bright Sheng
    Angel Fire
    Yao Chen
    Five Colors
    Wang Jie
    One Movement for Cello (world premiere)
    Pascal Le Boeuf
    Snapshots
    Shih-hui Chen
    Twice Removed
    Bobby Ge
    Doppelganger Streets
    Wang Jie
    The Night When You See Again (revision premiere)
  • Disappearing Landscapes

    at 5pm on Saturday December 22023

    St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill – a program inspired by the Hirshhorn exhibition of “Purple,” an environmentally-focused installation by pioneering British, Black artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah, with the world premiere of a climate-conscious Christmas concert-drama by Jon Deak.

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    Eleanor Alberga
    Glacier
    Arvo Pärt
    Fratres
    Olly Wilson
    A City Called Heaven (complete)
    Jon Deak
    Ingmar and the Bear, a Tale for Our Time (world premiere)
  • Singular Beauty

    at 5pm on Saturday January 202024

    St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill – inspired by the Hirshhorn exhibition of work by Simone Leigh, Jamaican/American artist and U.S. representative to the 2022 Venice Biennale, with soprano soloist Lucy Shelton.

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    Jesse Montgomery
    Voodoo Dolls
    Hannah Kendall
    Glances / I Don’t Belong Here
    Mikhail Johnson
    Praise the Mother of Jamaican Art
    Tania Leon
    Parajota Delate
    Shawn Okpebholo
    CryptOlogiE
    Mikhail Johnson
    Si Di Staar Deh
    Jeanne Lee/Lucy Shelton
    Angel Chile
    Mikhail Johnson
    Pasa Pasa
    Eleanor Alberga
    Jamaican Medley
    Jon Deak
    The Jury (poetry by Rhina Espaillat)
  • Quinquagenerians

    at 5pm on Saturday April 62024

    Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – the Hirshhorn Museum’s 50th anniversary, which anticipates the 21st Century Consort’s 50th season in 2024-25, is the impetus for a program featuring mid-20th century classics paired with new compositions, paralleling the exhibition’s art. Over the following season, plan an extended celebration of these two redoubtable institutions of contemporary art and music reaching the half-century mark. For the Consort, it will be an opportunity to revisit works the ensemble has championed, along with new musical creations.

    Lukas Foss
    Time Cycle “We’re Late”
    Jessie Montgomery
    Rhapsody #1a
    Lukas Foss
    Time Cycle “When the Bells Justle”
    Jessie Montgomery
    Rhapsody #1b
    Lukas Foss
    Time Cycle “Sechzehnter Januar”
    Jessie Montgomery
    Rhapsody #2
    Lukas Foss
    Time Cycle “O Mensch, Gib Acht”
    Olivier Messiaen
    Quartet for the End of Time