2019 – 2020 Season
2019—2020 Season at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capital Hill (301 A St SE, Washington, DC 20003)
The 21st Century Consort, award-winning contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for over four decades, embarks on its first season at the beautiful St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capital Hill. Artistic Director Christopher Kendall presents a season of new music and high drama featuring artists Paul Cigan, Lisa Emenheiser, Dan Foster, Lee Hinkle, Alexandra Osborne, Sara Stern, and Rachel Young.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
301 A St SE
Washington, DC 20003
ATTENDANCE IS FREE. Seating begins at 3:30, and all who attend the 4:00 pre-concert discussion are guaranteed seats. Past performances suggest that seats will likely be available for all until the performance itself, at 5:00 pm.
All concerts are at 5:00, preceded by a 4:00 discussion with composers and performers, and followed by a post-concert reception.
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“Time Out of Mind”
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capital Hill (301 A St SE, Washington, DC 20003) Read the printed program now for this concert.
- Corey Dundee
- Convoluted Reasoning
- Sebastion Currier
- Brainstorm
- Gemma Peacocke
- Amygdala
- Chen Yi
- Memory
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Garten von Freuden ynd Traurigkeiten
- Robert Paterson
- The Thin Ice of Your Fragile Mind
- Jon Deak
- Moody Melody
- Melinda Wagner
- Four Settings
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“Round About Midnight”
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capital Hill (301 A St SE, Washington, DC 20003)
- Dylan Thomas
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales (not in program order)
- George Crumb
- Eine Kleine Mitternacht Musik
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Music a Quattro
- Evan Chambers
- Firehose Reel
- Helen Grime
- Snow and Snow
- Pete Seeger
- The Bells of Rhymney
- Paul Mealor
- Silent Night
- David Froom
- Violinetude (Eine Kleine Kleinmusik)
- Hilary Tann
- ....Slate, Blue-Gray
- Paul Mealor
- Ubi Caritus
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“Time’s Up”
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capital Hill (301 A St SE, Washington, DC 20003)
- Gyorgy Ligetti
- Poeme Sympthonique for 100 Metronomes
- Sebastion Currier
- Variations on Time and Time Again
- Elliot Carter
- Tempo e Tempi
- Olivier Messiaen
- Quartet for the End of Time
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“H2O (Water Music)”
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Performed in the second floor gallery among the exhibition of Pat Steir’s Waterfall Paintings
- Jacob Druckman
- Reflection on the Nature of Water
- Carlos Simon
- The Rain that Falls
- Tan Dun
- Water Music
- Kati Agocs
- A la Claire Fountaine
- Stella Sung
- Dance of the White Lotus Under the Sliver Moon
- Luciano Berio
- Circles
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“A Time for…”
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capital Hill (301 A St SE, Washington, DC 20003)
- Paul Dessau
- Guernica
- Eugene O’Brien
- Elegy to the Spanish Republic (premiere)
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Prelude and Blues
- Kevin Puts
- And Legions Will Rise
- Roberto Gerhard
- Three Impromptus
- George Crumb
- Ancient Voices of Children (50th anniversary of the work)
*Programs subject to change.