Weekend Concert Series
Randall Goosby, violin, Zhu Wang, piano
Sunday, April 24, 2022 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Sunday, April 24, 2022 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Antonin Dvorak, Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100, B. 183 (1893)
Edvard Grieg, Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45 (1887)
William Dawson: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major (1927)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Blue/s Forms for Solo Violin (1972)
Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang return to the Gardner for the first time since their dazzling debut in 2019, taking a kaleidoscopic dive into composers’ folk music inspirations. The musical DNA of Spirituals can be heard in Dawson’s Violin Sonata No. 1, which receives its modern-day premiere. Dvorak’s Sonatina was written during the composer’s sojourn in the US, where he fell in love with the musical traditions of Black and Indigenous Americans. Perkinson’s Blue/s Forms seamlessly weaves blues harmonies and soloistic panache, and Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 looks back at the composer’s Norwegian roots while looking towards broader horizons.
While the City of Boston’s vaccination and mask mandates are lifted for general museum visits, the Gardner maintains its proof of vaccination and mask requirements for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. Please visit the Know Before You Go web page for additional information, including accepted forms of documentation. Please contact the Box Office at 617 278 5156 for further assistance.
Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections.
Adults $45, seniors $40, members $35, students & children ages 7-17 $20 (children under 7 not admitted).
Adults $40, seniors $35, members $30,students & children ages 7-17 $20 (children under 7 not admitted).
For sold-out performances, standby tickets may be available in the lobby no earlier than one hour before the performance begins. We cannot guarantee the availability of standby tickets for sold-out performances.
This program is performed in memory of Willona Sinclair.
Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; Marie Louise and David Scudder Concert; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.