2012-13 Season Events

April 2013_________________________________________________

April 20, 8 PM              LBCS Season Concert

Coolidge Auditorium Map
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540

Free but Ticketed (Tickets are available March 6)

This concert offers a Brahms masterwork; his G major string quintet–alongside compositions from George Walker and Dina Koston. Patricia Green, a singer of “exquisite style, [and] emotional power” (The Washington Post), delivers T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” in Walker’s Poem for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble.

Program
George Walker         String Quartet No. 1 (1946)
(b. 1922)

Dina Koston              Duo In Two Parts(1998)
(1934-2009)

George Walker         Poem for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1986)

Johannes Brahms   Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 (1890)
(1833-1897)

Pre-concert presentation – 6:15 pm - Coolidge Auditorium – (no tickets required)
Meet the Washington-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker in a pre-concert talk about his seven-decade career – and hear the world premiere of the newest Walker composition, performed by his son Gregory: Bleu, for solo violin.