some free, local, new and unusual old music to enjoy while waiting for the cherry blossoms and the election

Some free, local, new and unusual old music to enjoy this weekend while waiting for the cherry blossoms and the election:

Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Library of Congress
ENSEMBLE MATHEUS
with JENNIFER LARMORE, mezzo-soprano
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Music Director

Larmore is a brilliant collaborator with the French period instrument group admired for meticulous research and virtuosic performances, in particular itsdefinitive recordings of Vivaldi.

Arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Ariodante, and Rinaldo; Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice; and Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso; along with Vivaldi Sinfonias and Concerto for Two Violins.

Please note: The ticket supply for this concert, via Ticketmaster, has been exhausted; however, there are often up to 80 empty seats available for "sold out" concerts at start time. Interested patrons are strongly encouraged to come to the Library by 6:30 p.m. on concert nights to join the standby line for no-show tickets.

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Sunday, February 10 at 6:30PM
ORECHESTRA OF NEW SPAIN
West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art

Eighteenth-century music from the Spanish royal court

Concert Notes











Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000)
The Migration of the Negro, Panel No. 57, 1940–41
Acquired 1942
© Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence. Courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation

Photo credit: (c) The Phillips Collection. All rights reserved.