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Performances,
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| Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos | |
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Performances,
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| Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos | |
Special programs for Piano 300 will take place at least once a month.
Opening Events
| Thursday, March 9 | Performance tours will be led by NMAH staff, with an emphasis on classical piano repertoire. |
| Noon | James Weaver |
| 2 p.m. | James Weaver |
| 4 p.m. | Marcia Daft |
| Friday, March 10 | Concert: Satoko Fujii, jazz pianist, and trio. |
| Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, Independence Avenue at 12th St. NW. 7:30 p.m. Free tickets (limit, two per person) will be distributed in at the auditorium beginning at 6:30 p.m. on a first come-first served basis. In cooperation with Transparent Productions. | |
| Saturday, March 11 | Performance tours will be led by NMAH staff, with an emphasis on classical piano repertoire. |
| Noon | James Weaver |
| 2 p.m. | Edwin Good |
| 4 p.m. | Deena Gift |
| Saturday, March 11, and Sunday, March 12, 1-5 p.m. | Films, Room 3111, Ripley Center |
| 1:00 | The Concert A comic makes street music by cavorting on a black and white London crosswalk. Pyramid Films, Inc., 1975, 12 minutes |
| 1:15 | Anatole and the Piano A mouse's adventures finding a piano and performing at Mouse Concert Hall. Animation, CRM/McGraw-Hill Films (MCGH), 1968, 12 minutes |
| 1:30 | The Piano From public television's "The Nature of Things," a brief history of the piano, how they're made, and how they work, including a look at the Steinway company. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1981, 27 minutes |
| 2:00 | The Music Box Classic Laurel and Hardy adventure in piano moving. Anchor Bay Entertainment, 1932, 26 minutes |
| 2:30 | Play It Again, Charlie Brown Schroeder plays Beethoven amid distractions from Lucy and the Peanust gang. Animation, Mendelson/Melendez Productions, 1971, 25 minutes |
| 3:00 | The Concert |
| 3:15 | Anatole and the Piano |
| 3:30 | The Piano |
| 4:00 | The Music Box |
| 4:30 | Play It Again, Charlie Brown |
| Sunday, March 12 | Performance tours will be led by NMAH staff, with an emphasis on classical piano repertoire. |
| Noon | Edwin Good |
| 2 p.m. | Marcia Daft |
| 4 p.m. | Marcia Daft
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| Performances, Lecture Hall, Ripley Center | |
| 12 noon | BluesWorks, blues and more on electric piano, with guitar, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals |
| 1 p.m. | Ceoltoiri, Irish traditional music with hammered dulcimer, mandolin, guitar, and vocals |
| 2 p.m. | Margaret Leng Tan, music for toy piano |
| 3 p.m. | Sin Miedo, 8-member Latin jazz ensemble |
| 4 p.m. | Henry McKenzie Davis, pianist, and singers: gospel music |
| Films, Room 3111, Ripley Center | |
| 1-5 p.m. | Short subject documentaries, comedy, cartoons |
| Thursday, March 16 | |
| Noon | Kenneth Slowik, classical |
| Saturday, March 18 | |
| Noon | James Weaver, classical |
| Thursday, March 23 | |
| Noon | Renowned classical pianist Lambert Orkis, who is performing on this weekend with the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society. |
| Saturday, March 25 | |
| Noon | Thomas Mastroianni, classical piano. Dr. Mastroianni is the head of the piano department at Catholic University. |
| Thursday, March 30 | |
| Noon | Kenneth Slowik, classical piano |
| Performance tours will continue throughout the spring and summer on Thursdays and Saturdays; docent tours will continue on Tuesdays.
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| Performances at Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, noon-5 | |
| 12 noon.: |
Kevin Gift, music of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Chopin |
| 1 p.m.: |
Terpsichore (Liz Donaldson, piano; Elke Baker, fiddle), traditional English, Scottish, and American dance tunes |
| 2 p.m.: |
Burnett Thompson, jazz standards and improvisations |
| 3 p.m.: |
José Cáceres, music of Gottschalk and his Caribbean colleagues |
| 4 p.m.: |
Tony Walker and trio, jazz gospel
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| 1-5 p. m. | Films, Room 3111,
Ripley Center Short subject documentaries, comedy, cartoons; |
| Performance tours will continue throughout the spring and summer on Thursdays and Saturdays; docent tours will continue on Tuesdays. | |
| Saturday April 1, noon | Thomas Mastroianni, classical |
| Thursday April 6, noon | Liz Donaldson, traditional English and American |
| Saturday April 8, noon | Rubén Pelaez, classical |
| Thursday April 13, noon | Robert Wyatt, classical and popular |
| Saturday April 15, noon | Marcia Daft, classical |
| Thursday April 20, noon | Thomas Mastroianni, classical |
| Saturday April 22, noon | Dave Weisler, traditional American |
| Thursday April 27, noon | Tony Walker, Ellington's birthday program |
| Saturday April 29, noon | Burnett Thompson, Ellington's birthday program |
| Smithsonian Chamber Music Society
Saturday, March 25, 8 p.m., | The Axelrod Quartet with guest artist Lambert Orkis, piano, perform Bartok's Quartet No.1 and the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34. Tickets available from The Smithsonian Associates, 202-357-3030. |
| The Keyboard Meets Modern Technology
Friday, April 14, |
A look at the application of modern electronics and the computer to the keyboard will include a videoconference for students; public panel discussion and conversations featuring inventor/innovators Robert Moog, Ray Kurzweil, Malcolm Cecil, and Robert Margouleff, and rock keyboard wizard Keith Emerson; a display of contemporary keyboards and other electronic instruments; and a concluding concert with Mother Mallard, an all-synthesizer band. Sponsored by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Programs will take place in the Ripley Center, Room 3111, and Carmichael Auditorium, NMAH |
| Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Sunday, May 7, and Monday, May 8, 8:30 p.m. |
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
"The Music of Mary Lou Williams"
David N. Baker, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Artistic and Musical Director
Dr. Billy Taylor, Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor for Jazz
Presented by NMAH and the Kennedy Center. Free tickets. Reserved seating tickets will be given away starting at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 18, at the Kennedy Center Box Office or by calling (202) 467-4600. Limit four tickets per person per performance. A convenience fee of $2.00 per ticket will be charged for each phone order. Please note that patrons not seaEdwin by 8:15 p.m. on night of performance will forfeit their reserved seat. At 8:15 p.m., patrons with or without tickets will be allowed to sit in empty seats. |
| Sunday, May 7, 2 p.m. Mary Lou Williams: Her Life and Work | Pianist Geri Allen and Father Peter O'Brien, who was Mary Lou Williams' manager, will appear in conversation David Baker, director of the SJMO. Ripley Center Lecture Hall, 2 p.m. |
| Monday, May 8 SJMO School Program | A performance for school groups (grades 7-12) in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall; free, but reservations performance are required, and may be made by calling (202) 416-8835. |
| The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | |
| March 23-24 | Terrence Wilson with the National Symphony Orchestra |
| March 30 | Chucho Valdez, Latin jazz, Terrace Theater |
| April 1 | Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz, Terrace Theater |
| April 6-8 | Katia and Marielle Labeque with the National Symphony Orchestra |
| In June, the Kennedy Center will be sponsoring a festival featuring prominent pianists performing with the National Symphony Orchestra and an exhibition of unusual pianos. For tickets and additional information, call 202-467-4600, or consult the website: http://kennedy-center.org/kcnews.html | |
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The Concert Society at the University of Maryland The Concert Society at the University of Maryland is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the piano with concerts in March and April. For ticket information, times and location, call 301-405-7847, or consult the website: www.inform.umd.edu/SmithCenter/Concert_Society/piano_anniversary.html | |
| March 18 | Lilya Zilberstein; Rachmaninoff, Medtner, and Mussorgsky |
| April 7 | Ruth Laredo; Mendelssohn, Robert and Clara Schumann, and Brahms. |
| April 24 | Andre Watts plays Chopin |
March has been designated as the "Music In Our Schools" month. Visit the National Association for Music Education website for exciting programmatic information.
Fall 2000 - another exciting PBS documentary will be making its debut.