Events at the Library of Congress

Friday October 18, 2024

Friday October 25, 2024

Saturday October 26, 2024

Wednesday October 30, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Founder's Day: Emi Ferguson and Ruckus

    Wednesday
    October 30, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     Acclaimed flutist Emi Ferguson and the rollicking Baroque ensemble Ruckus share a visceral and playful approach to early music. In “By George!” the artists reimagine music by composers writing two hundred years apart, performing their own creative arrangements of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasias, TWV 40:2-13, and György Ligeti’s “Musica ricercata.”

Friday November 8, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Hiromi's Sonicwonder

    Friday
    November 8, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Join renowned jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara and her ensemble for an electrifying night performing Sonicwonderland at the Library of Congress.

Friday November 15, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    amarcord

    Friday
    November 15, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     The five voices of amarcord take us on a journey half a millennium in the making. Founded over thirty years ago by graduates of the famed Thomanerchor in Leipzig, amarcord is equally at home with music old and new

Saturday November 16, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Belcea Quartet & Quatuor Ébène: Octets by Mendelssohn & Enescu

    Saturday
    November 16, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     Two of Europe’s most distinguished string quartets come together for a concert offering monumental works of the chamber music repertoire. Written when both composers were still in their teens, the Mendelssohn and Enescu octets are prodigious creations, symphonic in concept and impact.

Wednesday November 20, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Danish String Quartet

    Wednesday
    November 20, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     The exemplary Danish String Quartet performs works by Haydn, Mozart and Stravinsky to frame pieces written more than three centuries earlier by the blind Irish harper and composer Turlough O’Carolan. Capping their concert is Franz Schubert’s transcendental last quartet.

Friday November 22, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Max Roach at 100: Tyshawn Sorey Trio + Sandbox Percussion

    Friday
    November 22, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     In this special double-bill concert celebrating the legacy of drummer and composer Max Roach, the Tyshawn Sorey Trio and Sandbox Percussion will each play sets inspired by legendary recordings of Roach and his collaborators. After a break the groups will join forces to perform a new work by 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, co-commissioned by the Library for this exciting tribute.

Friday December 6, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Schoenberg at 150: Experiential Orchestra

    Friday
    December 6, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     The Experiential Orchestra and violinist Curtis Stewart give voice to Julia Perry’s neglected violin concerto. Violinist and author Ling Ling Huang joins the stage as a speaker, presenting new text alongside Richard Dehmel’s original in Arnold Schoenberg’s beloved “Verklärte Nacht.”

Friday December 13, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Julius Rodriguez

    Friday
    December 13, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Julius Rodriguez, also known as "OrangeJulius," at 25, is a prodigious jazz talent blending R&B and classical influences with virtuosic piano and drum performances, praised by The New York Times.

Monday December 16, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Barbara Hannigan, soprano & Bertrand Chamayou, piano

    Monday
    December 16, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)     Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou are superbly matched partners in this recital pairing Scriabin piano works with song cycles by Olivier Messiaen and John Zorn that Hannigan describes as “deeply spiritual, mysterious tender and ecstatic.”

Wednesday December 18, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Stradivari Anniversary: Pacifica Quartet, Performance 1

    Wednesday
    December 18, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     The mighty Pacifica Quartet will celebrate the Library’s Stradivari Anniversary with a pair of concerts designed to give more listeners a chance to hear our fabled instruments in person. The program includes iconic works by Crumb, Barber, Ives, and Dvořák.

Thursday December 19, 2024

  • Event | concerts and performances

    Stradivari Anniversary: Pacifica Quartet, Performance 2

    Thursday
    December 19, 2024
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST     Coolidge Auditorium & Whittall Pavilion     The mighty Pacifica Quartet will celebrate the Library’s Stradivari Anniversary with a pair of concerts designed to give more listeners a chance to hear our fabled instruments in person. The program includes iconic works by Crumb, Barber, Ives, and Dvořák.