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National Gallery of Art | Music

On the third Tuesday of every month, the National Gallery of Art music department will release a podcast offering a deeper understanding of the art of music.

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Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar”

Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar”

Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Au... Read more

31 May 2022

51mins

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Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement”

Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement”

Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by American artists such a... Read more

17 May 2022

51mins

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Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”

Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”

This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of... Read more

3 May 2022

51mins

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Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”

Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”

Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the ... Read more

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Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy

Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy

Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—si... Read more

22 Apr 2022

51mins

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Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series

Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series

Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river paintings. Ho responds... Read more

5 Apr 2022

51mins

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Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön"

Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön"

In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says,... Read more

8 Mar 2022

51mins

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Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"

Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"

Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two... Read more

22 Feb 2022

51mins

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Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”

Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”

In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant ... Read more

23 Nov 2021

27mins

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Yumi Kurosawa, koto

Yumi Kurosawa, koto

In this program, award-winning koto player Yumi Kurosawa performs “Sakura” (Cherry Blossom) (traditional Japanese folk s... Read more

29 Aug 2021

1hr 4mins

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