Press Release

XXXXX XX, 2018

The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts

presents

Isabel Leonard
April 15, 2018 at 2 p.m.
and

Steven Isserlis and Richard Egarr

April 23, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

(WASHINGTON)— In April, the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts presents Isabel Leonard
in Recital: A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein on April 15, 2018, and Steven Isserlis and
Richard Egarr on April 23, 2018, both in the Terrace Theater. Tickets for the performances
are $59 and $45, respectively.

As part of Renée Fleming VOICES series, Isabel Leonard pays homage to Leonard
Bernstein in her April 15 performance with 18 songs from musicals such as West Side
Story, Peter Pan, and On the Town. This all-Bernstein concert featuring Leonard, a
multiple Grammy Award®–winning vocalist, precedes her turn as Rosina in Washington
National Opera’s production of The Barber of Seville.

Isabel Leonard has performed on stages throughout the world and with conductors such
as Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and others. She also serves on
the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Hall and has previously received the Richard Tucker
Award.

On April 23, British cellist Steven Isserlis and harpsichordist Richard Egarr perform
together in the Kennedy Center’s recently renovated Terrace Theater. This intimate,
versatile space sets the mood for the Baroque program complete with hand-crafted,
curved wood paneling invoking Isserlis’s authentic gut-string cello.

Isserlis is acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery,
enjoying a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator,
author, and broadcaster. He is the recipient of multiple awards and is one of only two living
cellists featured in the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Isserlis and Egarr will come together
again on April 23 after their successful 2015 album Bach, Handel & Scarlatti: Gamba
Sonatas.

About Isabel Leonard

About Steven Isserlis

Program Details

Fortas Chamber Music Series

Terrace Theater
April 15, 2018 at 2 p.m.
Isabel Leonard, voice
John Arida, piano
A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town)
My House (Peter Pan)
I Feel Pretty (West Side Story)

Greeting (Arias and Barcarolles)

I hate music (A cycle of five kids songs)
I’m a person too (A cycle of five kids songs)
So Pretty (1968 anti-war song first performed by Barbra Streisand)
Peter, Peter (Peter Pan)

Something’s Coming (West Side Story)

Intermission

What a Movie! (Trouble in Tahiti)

Maria (West Side Story)
There is a Garden (Trouble in Tahiti)

Piccola Serenata (1979 song for Karl Böhm’s 85th birthday)

My Twelve Tone Melody (written for Irving Berlin’s 100th birthday)
Lonely Town (On the Town)
To What You Said (Songfest)

Take Care of This House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)

Some Other Time (On the Town)

Tickets: $59

Fortas Chamber Music Series

Terrace Theater
April 23, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Steven Isserlis, cellist
Richard Egarr, harpsichord

J.S. BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

J.S. BACH Cello Sonata No. 1 in G major, BWV 1027
J.S. BACH Cello Sonata in D major, BWV 1028
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata in G major, G 5
DOMENICO SCARLATTI Sonata in D minor, Kk 90
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Harpsichord Suite in E major, HWV 430

Tickets: $45

TICKETS AND INFORMATION

Tickets are $45–59 and information is available from the Kennedy Center Box Office, web site, and
Instant-Charge, (202) 467-4600. Patrons living outside the metropolitan Washington area may call
toll-free at (800) 444-1324, or online at kennedy-center.org.

About The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts

The 2017–2018 season marks the 35th season of the Kennedy Center’s chamber music series,
established in the 1981–1982 season by Marta Istomin, who, at the time, was the Kennedy
Center’s Artistic Director. The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts, established as part of the Terrace
Concerts during the 1983–1984 season, began a vibrant new life in the 1999–2000 season when—
in addition to the generous contributions of loyal supporters of the Fortas Fund—income from a
major gift to the Fortas Fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas, became
available to support the artistic programming. The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series is
named for the former Supreme Court Justice, who was instrumental in the creation of The John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and later, the Terrace Theater. The Kennedy Center’s
Board of Trustees established the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund in 1982 for the support of concerts in
the Terrace Theater, and for the further development of the musical programs he envisioned.

Through its history the series has featured frequent appearances by artists such as the Guarneri,
Emerson, Juilliard, and Alban Berg Quartets; early music ensembles Anonymous 4, Trio Medieval,
and the Waverly Consort; performances by Eugene Istomin, Emanuel Ax, Edgar Meyer, Susan
Graham, Isaac Stern, and Yo-Yo Ma; as well as ensembles that actively perform and commission
new works, among them David Lang’s love fail, Imani Winds; as well as many other distinguished
artists.

FORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS SCHEDULE

Date Artists
April 15, 2018 Isabel Leonard in Recital
April 23, 2018 Steven Isserlis and Richard Egarr
May 3, 2018 Les Violons du Roy with Isabelle Faust

FUNDING CREDITS
The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts are supported by generous contributors to the
Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of
Abe Fortas.

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