The Clark, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, and Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee have teamed up to create a very special evening celebrating French music and art of the late nineteenth century, ranging from the Romantic period into early Modernism. Fellows from the Tanglewood Music Center will present a performance of chamber music featuring Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 along with Ed Gazouleas, Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, who will introduce selected excerpts from the piece highlighting key musical ideas and themes. Following their performance, Sebastian Smee (The Washington Post) explores the art and artists who were so central to this period, notably many of the French artists whose works are at the heart of the Clark's collection.

The permanent collection galleries will be open from 5:30 pm to 7 pm, so that audience members can see the works that Smee will discuss with their own eyes—works that Fauré may have seen too.

Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under).

Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, A Box at the Theater (At the Concert) (detail), 1880, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.594