And How Are You Going, Musically, To Celebrate (Post-) Cherry Blossom Season In The Nation's Capital?

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Jack String Quartet

April 11 at 12:10 PM FREE

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. East Building Auditorium

String Quartets by IVES and HOSOKAWA

Presented in honor of the National Cherry Blossom Festival

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Robert Seldon Duncanson, American, 1821–1872, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848

"African-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) was widely recognized during his lifetime for pastoral landscapes of American, Canadian, and European scenery. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to focus on a small group of still-life paintings (fewer than a dozen are known) that Duncanson produced during the late 1840s."...

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Classical music goes techno in the Financial Times

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