2024–2025 Season at Hirshhorn Museum & St. Mark’s
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A Portrait of Pinchas: Memorial Concert for Paul Schoenfield
at 2:30pm on Sunday September 152024
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill – a heartfelt tribute to the late composer
Read the printed program now for this concert.- Carolina Reveille
- Three Bagatelles
- The Return from Sextet
- Elegy, Rag and Boogie
- Tango and Tin Pan Alley
- Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
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Above and Beyond
at 5pm on Saturday November 162024
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – Smithsonian/NASA Chandra Observatory anniversary celebration. Art and music that relates to things overhead, from atmospheric avifauna to the distant reaches of outer space. Click here to get your free general seating ticket(s) from the Hirshhorn when they become available.
- Trevor Weston
- A.N.S. (A New Sound)
- Jordan Kuspa
- Sounds from Outer Space
- Juhi Bansal
- Trail of Stars
- Donald Crockett
- Celestial Mechanics
- Sophie Kastner
- Where Parallel Lines Converge (U.S. premiere)
- Lisa Bielawa
- Fictional Migrations
- Joseph Schwantner
- Sparrows
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Igor and Coco
at 5pm on Saturday February 12025
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – a program designed around a new Scott Wheeler work based on the words of Coco Chanel, noting the feminist icon’s ties to Picasso and Stravinsky and including the piano four-hands version of that composer’s revolutionary Rite of Spring.
- Lili Boulanger
- D’un matin de printemps
- Igor Stravinsky
- Le sacre du primtempts
- Mikhail Johnson
- Ton Yo Han Mek Fashon
- Scott Wheeler
- A Woman of Her Time: Coco Chanel Sings (world premiere)
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Art becomes Music becomes Art
at 5pm on Saturday March 82025
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – music inspired by specific artists in the Hirshhorn collection including Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollack, Jospeh Cornell and others, with an early 20th Century masterpiece by a composer equally esteemed as a painter: Arnold Schoenberg.
- Helen Grime
- Aviary Sketches
- Sarah Gibson
- You Are Still Here
- Jennifer Higdon
- American Canvas
- Bobby G
- Intuitive Geometry
- Lisa Bielawa
- Gargoyles
- Schoenberg
- Chamber Symphony
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Child’s Play
at 5pm on Saturday April 122025
Hirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – a program about music and art intent on recapturing childhood’s vision of the world, including a world premiere by composer Jon Deak, and featuring works by young composers from our “Mighty Young Composers” initiative.
- Berio
- Sequenza
- Juri Seo
- Toy Store
- Nina C. Young
- Tet-a-tete
- Jon Deak
- Greta the Fearless (world premiere)