Lyric for Strings (George Walker) – Upcoming Concerts

George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

Felix Mendelssohn — Overture to The Fair Melusine, Op. 32
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Jessie Montgomery — Starburst
Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 (Stefan Hersh, violin & Alexander Hersh, cello)

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op. 18, No. 5
Traditional — Selected works (African American spirituals TBA)
Caroline Shaw — Entr'acte
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Scott Gendel — Kids Who Die (NY premiere; text by Langston Hughes)

Program includes works by Traditional, George Walker, Jeffrey Mumford, Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, Luciano Berio, and Margaret Bonds.

George Walker — Lyric for Strings ("II. Molto Adagio" from String Quartet No. 1)
Dmitri Shostakovich — String Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 68
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"

Franz Schubert — Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major for piano quartet, D. 487
Amy Beach — Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor

Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob. III:81
George Benjamin — Viola Viola
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn — String Quartet No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 44, No. 3

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in F major, Op. 3, No. 5, Hob. III:17 "Serenade"
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Teresa Carreño — String Quartet in B minor
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"

Edward Elgar — Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47
Béla Bartók — Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113, BB. 118
Edvard Grieg — Holberg Suite, Op. 40 ("From Holberg's Time")
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Benjamin Britten — Simple Symphony, Op. 4

Program includes works by George Walker, John Williams, John Wineglass, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Christian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Program includes works by George Walker, John Williams, John Wineglass, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Christian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Astor Piazzolla — Fuga y misterio
Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
Kelly-Marie Murphy — En el Escuro, es Todo Uno (US premiere; Rosanna Moore, harp & Nicholas Finch, cello)
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Aaron Copland — Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes

Program includes works by Vincenzo Bellini, George Walker, Akira Ifukube, Carlos Simon, Astor Piazzolla, Valerie Coleman, Adele, Gnarls Barkley, Chick Corea, Richard Rodgers, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney.

Program includes works by Vincenzo Bellini, Ottorino Respighi, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Akira Ifukube, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Walker, Astor Piazzolla, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Program includes works by Traditional, Antonín Dvořák, William Grant Still, Charles Ives, George Walker, and Robert Pete Williams.

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Anna Clyne — Breathing Statues (D.C. premiere, Kennedy Center co-commission)
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Leoš Janáček — String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"

Dana Wilson — Of my dream before me… (James Stern, violin)
George Walker — Lyric for Strings (arr. Lucia Disano)
Clarice Assad — Selected works (new work TBA)

George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet No. 41 in G major, Op. 33, No. 5, Hob. III:41, "How do you do?"
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, Op. 161

Carlos Simon — Fate Now Conquers
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39
Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 "Sinfonia Concertante" (Joshua Roman, cello)

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — String Quartet No. 5 in G minor, Op. 1
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 1 in G major
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh — Four Southland Sketches
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"