2024–2025 Season at the Hirshhorn Museum
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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
with pre-performance discussion at 4pmHirshhorn 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.
Read the printed program now for this concert.- 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
with pre-performance discussion at 4pmHirshhorn 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.
Read the printed program now for this concert.- Mikhail Johnson
- Ton Yo Han Mek Fashan
- Scott Wheeler
- A Woman of Her Time: Coco Chanel Sings (world premiere)
- Lili Boulanger
- D’un matin de printemps
- Igor Stravinsky
- Le sacre du printemps
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Art becomes Music becomes Art
at 5pm on Saturday March 82025
with pre-performance discussion at 4pmHirshhorn Museum’s Ring Auditorium – music inspired by specific artists in the Hirshhorn collection including Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell and others, with an early 20th Century masterpiece by a composer equally esteemed as a painter: Arnold Schoenberg.
Read the printed program now for this concert.- Bobby Ge
- Intuitive Geometry
- Shawn Okpebholo
- On a Painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner: The Thankful Poor
- Jennifer Higdon
- American Canvas
- Trevor Weston
- Shape Shifter (The Angry Bluesman)
- Sarah Gibson
- You Are Still Here
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Chamber Symphony
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Child’s Play
at 5pm on Saturday April 122025
with pre-performance discussion at 4pmHirshhorn 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
Read the printed program now for this concert.- Luciano Berio
- Sequenza III
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Musical Toys
- Juri Seo
- Toy Store
- Jon Deak
- Greta, the Fearless (world premiere)