March 20, 2008 – Blueprint
Ever wonder how Isabella Stewart Gardner did it all? Learn more about the making of the Gardner Museum.
- Courtyard Music: Take in free live music in the courtyard from 5-7pm.
- Gallery Travels: This month’s self-guided tour focuses on some of the most famous and best-loved objects in the collection.
- Viewfinder: Isabella climbing ladders in the courtyard? Staff share the true story of the museum’s construction.
- Exhibition: See Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange Between India and Portugal Around 1600, and examine one textile’s exotic animals, elaborately dressed hunters, and fantastical creatures.
- Drawing in the Galleries: Express your inner architect and sketch the Venetian details of the museum building in our drawing session from 6-9pm.
After Hours PLUS
March 20, 2008, 7:00pm - Composer Portraits: Music of Gerald Barry
Composer Gerald Barry is bursting onto the scene, with a major opera premiere in New York and other performances throughout the city. We’ll feature this up-and-coming Irish composer in a concert of his music, scheduled, appropriately enough, right around St. Patrick’s Day. Get inside the mind of a composer whose music has been described as “a barn dance devised by a chaos theorist” (Tempo). The concert also features the Boston premiere of Los Angeles, a piece commissioned by the Miller Theatre, our collaborators for Composer Portraits.
More about this performance
Gerald Barry was born in Ireland in 1952 and first came to public attention in 1979 with his radical ensemble works '__________' and Ø. Many of his works have been commissioned by the BBC, including Chevaux-de-frise for the 1988 Proms, Hard D for Orkest de Volharding, The Conquest of Ireland and Day for the BBCSO, and The Eternal Recurrence, a setting of Nietzsche for voice and orchestra. His music crackles with electric current and makes extreme physical demands on the performers. His Piano Quartet No. 2 requires full-body contact: fingers, fists and forearms.
This program includes: Los Angeles (Boston premiere), Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, Bob, “________” and Octet.
Performers:
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Michael Norsworthy, clarinet
Jesse Mills, violin
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Tom Kolor, marimba
Molly Morkoski, piano
Tickets
After Hours Tickets
Members: free | Adults: $12 | College Students: $5
After Hours Plus Tickets (Includes admission to After Hours)
Adults: $23 | Members: $15 | College Students: $10
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Box Office: 617 278 5156
Tickets also on sale at the door, subject to availability.
Due to space limitations, we cannot make special accomodations for groups at After Hours.
The Gardner Café
The Gardner Café is open during After Hours, serving sweet and savory small plates and drinks from 5–9pm. A cash bar, offering specialty cocktails, wine and beer, is also available alongside the courtyard in the museum starting at 5:30pm. Reservations are available for members only by calling 617 566 1088.
View sample food and drink menus
Small Plates
Brazilian Style Braised Pork black beans, orange and cilantro - $8.00
Baked Rigatoni Bolognese, basil and Grana Padano - $9.00
Cold Poached Atlantic Salmon grapefruit, macadamia nuts and kaffir lime - $10.00
Cassava Soup bacon and scallion butter - $5.00
Imported and Domestic Cheeses raisin toast and apple - $6.00
Ginger Ice Cream - $5.00
Lime and Vanilla Panna Cotta stewed blackberries - $6.00
Banana Bread Pudding crème anglaise - $5.00
Bar
Sake Lemon Drop (sake, lemon sugar, lemon zest and Thai basil) - $8.00
White wines - $6.00
Beer - $4.00
Soda and water - $2.00
Coffee - $2.50
Tea - $2.95
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