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Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
Beatrice Berrut performs the music of Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Mahler and Dukas in a heavy-hitting recital that showcases works from the Library’s collections.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artist @ 12:30 p.m.
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Live! At the Library: Stradivari Anniversary Concert I
Isidore String Quartet
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
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The Isidore String Quartet is joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for an evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. It is a rare chance to hear six Stradivari instruments used together in performance, including the recently acquired “Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici" 1690 Stradivari viola.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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Live! At the Library: Stradivari Anniversary Concert II
Isidore String Quartet
Friday, December 19, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium
10 First Street SE. Washington DC 20540
Reserve Tickets Here
The Isidore String Quartet is joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for an evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. It is a rare chance to hear six Stradivari instruments used together in performance, including the recently acquired “Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici" 1690 Stradivari viola.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists @ 6:30 p.m.
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Consone Quartet with Kristian Bezuidenhuit, fortepiano
Friday, October 17, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
(Postponed until further notice)
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).”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
(Postponed until further notice)
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.
(Postponed until further notice)
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.
(Postponed until further notice)
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.
(Postponed until further notice)
"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.
(Postponed until further notice)
"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.
(Postponed until further notice)
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.
(Postponed until further notice)
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.
(Postponed until further notice)
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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SistaStrings
Chauntee Ross, voice & violin
Monique Ross, voice & cello
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
(Postponed until further notice)
SistaStrings returns to the Library, following their acclaimed Gershwin Prize appearance in 2024
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