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La Santa Cecilia
Grammy award-winning Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia performs a mix of original songs and old classics. The group's brilliant instrumentalists and expressive lead singer La Marisoul create a seductive fusion of styles and influences in songs both original and traditional: from rancheras, salsa, cumbia and boleros, to the music of Santana, Ramón Ayala and Los Alegres de Terán.
This performance was recorded on October 18, 2017.
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Ensemble Dal Niente
Dal Niente performs music by leading Latin American composers, including the world premiere of Igor Santos’ confined. speak., commissioned by the McKim Fund at the Library of Congress. Nur Slim’s Humming Between Branches, in which the singer’s voice moves through widely varying instrumental textures, shimmers, dives and groans with kaleidoscopic virtuosity. Tania León’s classic wind quintet De Memorias recalls her native Havana, while Tomás Gueglio’s Lamarque Songs evokes a kind of 1940s glamour — at once shy and loud, proper and unapologetically melodramatic. Luis Amaya’s Tinta Roja, Tinta Negra mesmerizes with subtly shifting textures that resonate around an amplified jarana, and the concert closes with a dialogue between harp and ensemble in Hilda Paredes’ Demente Cuerda.
This event was recorded at Gannon Concert Hall–Holtschneider Performance Center, DePaul University, and at the Fulton Street Collective in Chicago.
This video was published on November 13, 2020.
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Consone Quartet with Kristian Bezuidenhuit, fortepiano
Friday, October 17, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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The Consone Quartet and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout present an evening of Haydn and Mozart, featuring an early piano concerto by Mozart and an arrangement of his quintet for piano and winds.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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AMS Lecture: “Musical Representations of the West During the Silent Film Era: Max Winkler's Score for The Yaqui (1916).”
Wednesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
James Madison Building - Mumford Room (LM649)
101 Independence Avenue SE,
Washington, DC, 20540
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Mariana Whitmer speaks at the Library as part of the long-running series of American Musicological Society lectures hosted by the Music Division. Whitmer's talk will use the scenario cue sheets created by Max Winkler to discuss the musical representation of "the West" in silent films.
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Founder's Day: Simone Dinnerstein, piano, Jennifer Johnson Cano, voice, Katherine Needleman, oboe, and Baroklyn
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Katherine Needleman and the Baroklyn ensemble perform an evening of chamber works by J.S. Bach to open a special Founder's Day 2025 celebration marking the Library’s illustrious century-long history as a concert presenter.
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Pre-concert conversation at 6:30 p.m. in the Whittall Pavilion with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres and David Plylar, PhD, of the Music Divison on their new book “Let the People Hear It: Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100. |
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Live! At the Library: Founder's Day Tambuco
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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The celebrated Grammy-nominated Mexican contemporary classical percussion ensemble Tambuco returns to the Library of Congress for the annual Founder’s Day concert with dynamic repertoire by Latin American composers, featuring music that ranges from delicately intricate to powerfully expansive.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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Valerie Coleman: "Reverie"
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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"Reverie" honors a cultural exchange with a program pairing the music of Valerie Coleman with works by Ravel, Debussy and Poulenc.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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Live! At the Library: “The Disappearance of Miss Scott” (Filmscreening)
Thursday. November 6, 2025, 5:00 p.m.
James Madison Building -Pickford Theater (LM 302)
101 Independence Avenue SE.
Washington, DC 20540
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"The Disappearance of Miss Scott" chronicles Hazel Scott’s meteoric rise as a jazz talent and major Hollywood star. The first Black woman to have her own television show, she was also an influential civil rights pioneer before being blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950’s. Produced by 4th Act Actual for the PBS American Masters series, this rich documentary tells the story of Hazel Scott’s extraordinary life fully for the first time.
The screening will be introduced by Scott’s son, Adam Clayton Powell III.
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Live! At the Library: Ekep Nkwelle
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Rising jazz star Ekep Nkwelle, a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Howard University and Juilliard, captivates audiences with her vocal exuberance, versatility and charisma.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Sir George Benjamin, piano
Friday, November 14, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs music with deep personal connections in a recital of works by eminent British composer Sir George Benjamin, Aimard's mentor Pierre Boulez and Russian and modernist Nikolai Obukhov. The composer joins Aimard for the U.S. premiere of Benjamin’s Divisions for piano, four hands, a co-commission from the Pierre Boulez-Saal, the Library of Congress and Wigmore Hall.
Pre-concert Lecture @ 6:30 p.m.
“Le Tombeau de Boulez: Revolution and Remembrance”
David Plylar, PhD, Music Division
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Grossman Ensemble
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Chicago’s Grossman Ensemble, led by Stefan Asbury, performs works by Sir George Benjamin, Augusta Read Thomas, Sean Shepherd, and Morton Feldman.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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Les Arts Florissants, with Théotime Langlois de Swarte,
Friday, November 21, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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Star violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte leads the acclaimed French Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants in an exhilarating concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s "Le Quattro Stagioni" (The Four Seasons).
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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