The 21st Century Consort offers a musical reflection of the Washington DC Color School painter Gene Davis, featuring music by minimalist, synesthetic and Washington DC composers. Tickets are FREE. Concert at 5pm, preceded by a 4pm discussion with composers and performers, and followed by a post-concert reception.
- Jessica Krash
- Dangerous Curves
- Robert Gibson
- Twelve Poems
- David Froom
- Nightsongs
- John Chowning
- Voices
- Nicolas Maw
- Ghost Dances
- The 21st Century Consort, award-winning contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution for three decades, embarks on its tenth season at the Smithsonian American Art Museums Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Artistic Director Christopher Kendall presents a season of new music and high drama featuring artists Paul Cigan, Lisa Emenheiser, Dan Foster, Sara Stern, Rachel Young with guest vocalists William Sharp, Mary Mackenzie and Lucy Shelton.
- Painter Gene Davis (1920-1985), a major figure in 20th-century American painting whose contribution was invaluable in establishing Washington, D.C., as a center of contemporary art. Davis also played a significant national and international role in the color abstraction movement that first achieved prominence in the 1960s.