Join the Friends of Music!

 Twelve scholarship Academy Fellows join a distinguished faculty (Catherine Manson, Michael Gurevich, Anthony Martin, and Kenneth Slowik) in exploring Joseph Haydn's Opp. 76 and 77 quartets, offering the following public events: 

Lectures: Haydn in Context  11:30 AM­

Taubman Hall of Music, National Museum of American History

Monday, 8 January: “Haydn in London” | Kenneth Slowik

Tuesday, 9 January: “From Autograph to Critical Edition” | James Webster, Goldwin Smith Professor Emiritus of Music, Cornell University

Wednesday, 10 January: “How Haydn’s Quartets Hang Together” | James Webster

Thursday, 11 January: “Haydn’s Sensibility” | James Webster

free and open to the public

Marathon Quartet Concert

Saturday 13 January, beginning at 12:30 PM

Taubman Hall of Music, National Museum of American History

A marathon concert of all eight Opp. 76 and 77 quartets, including the Emperor, the Quinten (“Fifths”), the Friedhofsquartett (“Largo”), and the Sunrise

free and open to the public

Wine Tasting Concert 

Sunday 14  January, 2:30 PM (doors open to tour the workshop at 2:00 PM)

Wolf Instruments Workshop, 6562 Main St., The Plains, Virginia

Haydn quartet movements introduced by Cornell University professor emeritus James Webster, accompanied by a flight of Austrian wines presented by wine merchant and sommelier Klaus Wittauer

Tickets required: $50 with advanced reservation (write to slowikk@si.edu); $60 at the door