Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Concert | Tarot Magic in Music

Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 7–8 PM
Tickets:

On sale June 1, 11 AM EST
$60; $50 for Morgan members

Discover tarot’s influence in classical music. Drawing inspiration from the exhibition Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, composer Victoria Bond’s program opens with excerpts from the opera Carmen, in which Carmen reads her own tarot cards. Pieces by Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, and Katherine Hoover touch on folk magic themes and traditions. The program culminates in Bond's Instruments of Revelation, inspired by three tarot cards: the Magician, the High Priestess, and the Fool. 

Program 
Georges Bizet, Quintet Card Scene from Carmen (arr. Victoria Bond) 
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane 
Katherine Hoover, Kokopeli 
Béla Bartók, Contrasts 
Victoria Bond, Instruments of Revelation 

Victoria Bond, composer 
Carol Wincenc, flute 
Charles Neidich, clarinet 
Kurt Nikkanen, violin 
Mihai Marica, cello 
Mohamed Shams, piano 

This concert takes place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the concert begins. Attendees are invited to view Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions before the concert from 5:30 to 7 PM. 

Please e-mail public_programs@themorgan.org with questions about accessibility.

Tarot Card: Fool from Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards (ca. 1450). Heavy cardboard, illuminated, Italy, Milan. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911. Morgan Library & Museum. MS M.630.15.

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