2023–2024 Season at Hirshhorn Museum & St. Mark’s
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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.
- 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
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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.
- 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)
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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.
- Eleanor Alberga
- Glacier
- Valerie Coleman
- Amazonia
- Corey Dundee
- A Sunrise Elsewhere
- Arvo Pärt
- Fratres
- Jon Deak
- The Christmas Peace (world premiere)
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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.
- Jeanne Lee
- Angel Chile
- Hannah Kendall
- Glances / I Don’t Belong Here
- Jesse Montgomery
- Voodoo Dolls
- Eleanor Alberga
- Jamaican Medley
- Tania Leon
- Arenas D’un Tiempo
- Jon Deak
- The Jury (poetry by Rhina Espaillat)
- Mikhail Johnson
- Laugh Radish
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Quinquagenerians
at 5pm on Saturday September 162023
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.