Public Programs
Winter/Spring 2012

All events take place at the Society’s Anderson House headquarters in Washington, D.C., and, unless otherwise noted, admission is free and no reservations are required.

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Concerts | Lunch Bites | Special Events

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Spring Concert Series

Performances begin at 1:30 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free.

Saturday, January 21
Ruth Rose, piano, and Jorge Orozco, violin, play Brahms’ Third Violin Sonata, the Gershwin Preludes, and South American pieces.

Saturday, February 25
Irina Varamesova, soprano, and Gregory Stuart, baritone, with pianist Paul Leavitt, present an art song recital including duets by Robert Schumann, excerpts from his only opera, and art songs by Rachmaninoff.

Saturday, March 17
Jennifer Bachitta, soprano, and Choochoo Hu, piano present a musical program, "Within Spanish Borders: Diverse Treasures of Language and Song."

Saturday, April 21
Nancy Peery Marriott, lyric soprano, accompanied by David Chapman, piano, performs art songs, operetta, and inspirational songs by Schubert, Mahler, Dvorak, Quilter, and Romberg.

Saturday, May 26
Nancy Scimone, vocalist, celebrates great American songwriters with selections by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, and Johnny Mercer.

Lunch Bites

Join us at 12:30 p.m. each month for informal talks by Society staff and other experts highlighting objects from the Society’s vaults. Admission is free.

Friday, January 20
The Diana tapestries, woven in Brussels around 1600 and among the original furnishings of Anderson House, presented by Emily Schulz, curator.

Friday, February 17
The d'Oyré journal and letters,a series of French documents on the Yorktown campaign previously unknown to scholars, presented by Jack Warren, executive director.

Friday, March 16
An 18th-century tankard made by prominent New York silversmith Myer Myers, presented by Caren Pauley, museum visitor services coordinator.

Friday, April 20
Larz Anderson’s diplomatic uniform presented by Whitney Robertson, museum collections manager.

Friday, May 18
Approach and Defeat of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar -- a pair of engravings and other materials highlighting the 1782 Siege of Gibraltar, a little-known saga of the Revolutionary War, presented by Valerie Sallis, archivist.

Special Events

Admission is free unless otherwise noted.

Lecture -- "In the Name of Honor:" Officers of the French Army and their Participation in the American Revolution
Wednesday, January 18, 7 p.m.
Julia Osman, professor of history at Mississippi State University and the Society’s 2008 Tyree-Lamb Fellow, discusses what it meant for officers of the French army to take part in the American struggle for independence and to become members of the Society of the Cincinnati. Dr. Osman also addresses the connection between the American Revolution and the French Revolution of 1789. This talk is in conjunction with the Society’s exhibition, France in the American Revolution (on view through April 13).

Celebrating Washington's Birthday through the Centuries
Wednesday, February 22, 7 p.m.
On George Washington's 280th birthday, Library Director Ellen Clark presents a talk on celebrations of Washington’s birthday since it was first observed by the troops at Valley Forge in 1778. Refreshments include a flag-bedecked cake based on one served by Larz and Isabel Anderson at the American Legation in Brussels on February 22, 1912.

Lecture -- Religion in the Life of George Washington
Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m..
Mary Thompson, research specialist at Mount Vernon, explores the place of religion in the life of George Washington and, more broadly, in the lives of other founders and 18th-century residents of the Chesapeake region.

Asian Art at Anderson House
Tuesday, March 20 - Friday, April 27, during regular museum hours
Celebrate the centennial of the Cherry Blossom Festival with themed tours of Anderson House highlighting Asian art, and a display of museum and library treasures from the Andersons’ travels to Japan.

Anderson House Birthday Celebration
Thursday, March 29, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Anderson House opens for extended museum hours to mark the 107th anniversary of the completion of the house in 1905. This annual celebration features guided tours and birthday cake.

Lecture -- George Washington’s Society of the Cincinnati Porcelain Service
Tuesday, May 15, 7 p.m.
Ron Fuchs II, curator of the Reeves Collection at Washington and Lee University, discusses the rare Chinese export porcelain service decorated with the Society’s insignia that was commissioned in 1784, bought by George Washington, and eventually inherited by Robert E Lee. The talk will look at how the service was designed, ordered, used, and abused over the last two centuries, and compare an authentic original with a modern fake.

For more information about the Society's public programs, please contact:

Emily L. Schulz
Deputy Director and Curator
(202) 785-2040 x428
eschulz@societyofthecincinnati.org