Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Join us for a session of close looking at what J. Pierpont Morgan might have described as “A few of his favorite things.”
Leap off the page with this new family program geared towards younger readers.
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Idylle sur la Paix & Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Fête de Rueil
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Idylle sur la Paix & Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Fête de Rueil
Director: Mark Osborne
(2015, 108 minutes)
Celebrate the holiday season with the Morgan’s annual display of the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Enheduanna—Poet of Power and Paradox
Sophus Helle
This program will explore how writer Dame Agatha Christie weaved together her personal archaeological experiences, and travels in Mesopotamia, into thrilling mysteries, and will feature objects from the exhibition She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C. as well as the Morgan’s collection.
This talk by Amanda Podany, Professor Emeritus of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will focus on Baranamtara of Lagash (c. 2400 BC) and Tabur-damu of Ebla (c. 2300 BC), and will explore their roles in administration, diplomacy, and religion.
Matthew F. Delmont
Drawing on his new book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking), historian Matthew F. Delmont (Dartmouth) explains what the wartime experiences of Langston Hughes and Ashley Bryan reveal about Black perspectives on the war.
Young Concert Artists
Aristo Sham, piano
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator and Department Head, Modern & Contemporary Drawings
The American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) has risen to the highest ranks of American new music through a mix of meticulous musicianship, artistic vision, and engaging collaborations
Beo String Quartet
Rush Hour Music in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
Erhan Tamur, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art
SOLD OUT
George London Foundation Competition Finals
Young Concert Artists
Hanzhi Wang, accordion, and Steven Banks, saxophone
Tabea Debus, recorder, and Adam Cockerham, archlute
Lessons from the Masters
Young Concert Artists
William Socolof, bass-baritone, and Gracie Francis, piano
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn
Tel Aviv Wind Quintet
Into the Woodwinds
Young Concert Artists
Zhu Wang, piano
Benjamin Taylor, baritone
Katelan Terrell, piano
David Leisner, guitar
New Works/Old Friends
Ensemble Castor
Vivaldi: Forces of Nature-Love of Nature
Emi Ferguson, flute, & Ashley Jackson, harp
Rush Hour Music in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
Bill’s Garden: A Celebration of William Bolcom at 85
Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies, piano
New Parnassus
Four contemporary composers take inspiration from the sketches of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95, in F minor (1810) and compose one movement each, resulting in a completely new four-movement quartet
Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.