Seattle Art Museum (Downtown)

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Seattle, WA 98101-2003
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Ladies Musical Club at the Seattle Art Museum

Thursday, March 5, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Works by Beethoven, Copland, Duke and Argento.

Free

LMC at the Seattle Art Museum

Thursday, October 1, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Bach – “Hört, ihr Augen, auf zu weinen” (Kantata BWV 98)
Barber – Hermit Songs (selections)
Fauré – Automne
Debussy – Il pleure dans mon Coeur
Debussy – Paysage sentimental
Bemberg – Il Neige
Mozart – “Chi sa qual sia,” K. 582
Baldwin – "Oklahoma Sonata" for Oboe and Piano
Kalliwoda – Divertissement Op. 58

Free

From the Height of Classical Era to the Birth of the German Romantic style

Thursday, December 3, 2026 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Journey from the height of the classical era to the birth of the German romantic style with works by Mozart and Beethoven.

Free (Free)

The Art of the Piano: Celebrating Impressionism

Thursday, January 7, 2027 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Members of the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle play favorite piano solo works complementing the Seattle Art Museum Impressionist Exhibit.

Free (Free)

LMC at the Seattle Art Museum

Wednesday, March 3, 2027 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
J.S. Bach – Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin
Prokofiev – Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 115
Milhaud – Quatre Chansons de Ronsard, Op. 223
Rodrigo – Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club: Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos

Wednesday, October 6, 2027 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Villa-Lobos – Five Preludes, W. 419
Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, W. 264
Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, W. 391 (arr. Hilary Field)

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club: Art of Piano – Style Innovators

Wednesday, January 5, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
An all-piano program designed to complement the SAM exhibit Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style.

Free

Ladies Musical Club: Wolf, Turina, W.F. Bach & more

Thursday, March 2, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Wolf – Spanisches Liederbuch ("Spanish songbook")
Turina – Tres Poemas ("Three poems")
W.F. Bach – Polonaise in D major from 12 Polonaises
Schumann – Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Schumann – Theme and Etudes I-XI
Ponce – Intermezzo
Prokofiev – Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7
Chopin – Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1

Free (Free)

Seeing Nature: Chamber Music at Seattle Art Museum

Thursday, March 16, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Music of composers living in the same period as the artists featured in the SAM Seeing Nature exhibition, highlighting connections between visual and musical art inspired by natural landscapes.

Free with SAM admission to Seeing Nature

Ladies Musical Club: Herbolsheimer, Zahnhausen, Telemann, & more

Thursday, April 6, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Zahnhausen – Toccata
Telemann – Sonata No. 1 in F major
Hirose – Ode II
Irish, Traditional – Danny Boy (arr. Julie Knowles)
American, Traditional – From American Folk Song Settings (arr. Bern H. Herbolsheimer)

Free

Ladies Musical Club: Bellini, Kreisler, & Dvořák

Thursday, May 11, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Works by Bellini, Kreisler, & Dvořák for piano and voice, and piano and violin.

Free (Free)

Hearing Nature: Nat Evans' Vertical Saxophone Aura Readings

Thursday, May 18, 2028 @ 7:00pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
As part of a music series inspired by the landscape exhibit Seeing Nature and John Grade's monumental tree sculpture Middle Fork, Nat Evans presents an interactive work for saxophonists on escalators.

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club: Brahms songs & duets & Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder

Thursday, October 5, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Brahms – Fünf Lieder, Op. 105
Brahms – Vier Duette, Op. 61
Mahler – Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children)

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club's Art of Piano: Darkness & Light

Thursday, November 2, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Dohnányi – selections from Winterreigen, Op. 13
Tchaikovsky – The Seasons, Op. 37a, "October" and "November"
Granados – Goyescas, Op. 11
Granados – El amor y la muerte (Balada)

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club: Works by Janet Anderson, 'The Birds,' and more

Thursday, December 7, 2028 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Janet Anderson – For Snow song cycle
Janet Anderson – Variations on She Moved through the Fair
Nicholas Marshall – Selections from The Birds
Racheal Cogen – Sughisti
Matthias Maute – Les Barricades

Free (Free)

Ladies Musical Club: Music for Soprano & Music for Oboe

Thursday, January 4, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Works by Rorem, Handel, Ewazen and Chausson.

Free

Ladies Musical Club: Mozart & Grieg

Thursday, February 1, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Mozart – Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, KV 454
Grieg – Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 3, No. 45

Free (Free)

Seattle Symphony: Simple Gifts Community Concert

Saturday, May 19, 2029 @ 2:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
A culminating celebration concert featuring a world premiere composed in collaboration with Alexandra Gardner and LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness in Seattle.

Free

Ladies Musical Club: Song recital for mezzo-soprano, music for cello & piano

Thursday, October 4, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Music by Schubert, Handel, Bellini, Donizetti, Schubert, Y. Choi, D. Kim, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Bloch, and Shostakovich.

Free

Ladies Musical Club: Ravel, Rachmaninoff, & an American song recital

Thursday, November 1, 2029 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Seattle Art Museum (Downtown), Seattle, WA, United States
Piano music by Ravel and Rachmaninoff, and an American song recital with music by Paul Bowles, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and more.

Free