HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS ANNOUNCE FALL 1999 CONCERT SCHEDULE

Harvard Baroque Orchestra
Friday, October 29, 8 p.m.
Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street

Featuring baroque masterpieces as presented by the original Ivy League baroque orchestra, conducted by Murray Forbes Somerville and Robert Mealy.

Tickets are $10, $5 for students. Tickets may be purchased in advance through the Harvard Box Office at the Holyoke Center Arcade or by telephone at (617) 496-2222. Upon availability, tickets will be sold at the door.

Annual Halloween Organ Recital
Sunday, October 31, midnight
Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street
Free admission

Midday Organ Recitals at Adolphus Busch Hall
Thursdays, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18
12:15–12:45 p.m.
Free admission

The Harvard University Art Museums and the Harvard/Radcliffe Organ Society again present a series of midday organ recitals performed by members of the Organ Society and Harvard faculty on the famed Flentrop in Adolphus Busch Hall. All recitals are free and open to the public.

Lute Songs from England, France, and Italy
Ellen Hargis, soprano, and Paul O’Dette, lute and chitarrone
Wednesday, November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street

The Harvard University Art Museums are pleased to join the Cambridge Society for Early for a continuing series of concerts in the Fogg Courtyard. This season will open with a presentation by an astonishing pair of musicians. Since their collaboration began in European festivals, this duo has garnered critical acclaim throughout the world. Most recently in Boston, they starred in the 1999 Boston Early Music Festival’s production of Francesco Cavalli’s opera Ercole Amante (with Paul O’Dette as the Festival’s artistic director). The galleries on the Courtyard level of the Fogg will be open for viewing from 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $18; $15 for Friends, students, and senior citizens. For reservations, please call (617) 423-2808. Upon availability, tickets will be sold at the door.

Classical Turkish Music
The EurAsia Ensemble
Sunday, December 5, 7:30 p.m.
Paine Hall, 3 Kirkland Street
Free admission

In conjunction with the exhibition Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sak&Mac245;p Sabanc&Mac245; Museum, Sabanc&Mac245; University, Istanbul, the Harvard University Art Museums are pleased to present an evening of classical Turkish music.

The EurAsia Ensemble first came together in 1979 at Wesleyan Universtiy to research, promote, and perform the classical and mystical genres of Turkish music. Members of the ensemble accompany their vocal music with bendir (hand drums), and perform on a variety of traditional insruments such as the ney (reed flute), tanbur (long-necked lute), çeng (Ottoman harp), and kemençe (pear-shaped fiddle).

The Harvard University Art Museums
The Harvard University Art Museums comprise the Fogg Art Museum (founded in 1891, opened in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (founded in 1902, now housed in Werner Otto Hall), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (opened in 1985). The Straus Center for Conservation is located in the Fogg. Through their collections and professional practice programs, as well as a wide array of special exhibitions, scholarly programming and publications, loans, and educational initiatives and programs, the Art Museums serve Harvard University as a catalyst for instruction and scholarship, as a training ground for future academic art historians and museum professionals, and as a general resource for its diverse and growing national and international audiences.

The collections of the Art Museums consist of more than 150,000 objects in all media, with works ranging from antiquity to the present and from Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. The collections are divided among ten curatorial areas (Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics; Architecture and Design; Asian Art; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Drawings; Islamic and Later Indian Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts; Prints; and Photographs) and are comprehensive within their areas. Developed with an emphasis on their value for teaching and research, these holdings are a unique resource in terms of breadth and quality, and are enhanced continually through gifts and acquisitions. Together, they comprise one of the finest university art collections in the world, with resources rivaling those of many major public museums.

The Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and Sunday, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Closed national holidays. Admission is $5.00; $4.00 for senior citizens; $3.00 for students; free to children under 18 and to all individuals on Saturday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-–noon, and all day on Wednesdays.

For general information, please call (617) 495-9400. All groups of 8 or more must schedule in advance. Please call (617) 496-8576. Web site: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu. The Harvard University Art Museums are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.