Weekend Concert Series
Randall Goosby, violin with Zhu Wang, piano
Sunday
April 12, 2026
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Superstar violinist Randall Goosby returns to Calderwood Hall for an intimate recital of epic music. Two major sonatas bookend the program: Debussy’s elusive and gorgeous sonata is paired with Beethoven’s sunny F major essay in the form. Harry Burleigh was key in forging a quintessential American musical language, which modified the gorgeous modal inflections of spirituals with the chromatic ambiguities of Wagner’s harmony. The Romance of Boston’s Amy Beach—the best of the "Second New England School" of composers—gorgeously drinks from a similar Wagnerian well.
Photo credits: Jeremy Mitchell and Kevin Condon
Works
Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 (1801)
Antonín Dvořák Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 (1887)
Amy Beach Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23 (1893)
Harry Burleigh Southland Sketches (1916)
Claude Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L. 140 (1917)
Program subject to change.
Artist
Randall Goosby, violin
Zhu Wang, piano
Seating Sections and Rates
Performance Level and First Balcony:
Members $65, Adults $85, Seniors $75, Students & Children ages 5–17 $20
Second Balcony:
Members $50, Adults $65, Seniors $55, Students & Children 5-17 $20
Third Balcony:
Members $40, Adults $50, Seniors $45, Students & Children ages 5–17 $20
Music at the Gardner is supported by Manitou Fund. 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; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; 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 Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Joseph Mari, Sallie and Jim McGregor, Nicie and Jay Panetta, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
