NPR Music Field Recordings: Gil Shaham's Day At The Museum

As Gil Shaham wandered through the back offices of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., he said he felt "like Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum." For this impromptu Bach mini-recital, the violin superstar momentarily became part of the art, bathed in the modish lighting and projections of a multimedia installation during the performance.

A crowd packed the exhibit room to watch as Shaham launched into Bach's third partita. After the performance, the violinist greeted fans in the museum, many of whom were headed to his concert at the Kennedy Center that night. He seemed surprised and delighted that the guerrilla concert, announced only on local classical station WETA and Twitter that day, drew so many people willing to hear Bach in the afternoon.

See more Field Recordings: http://www.npr.org/series/144918893/field-recordings

Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, John Poole, Dena Trugman
Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait
Event Coordinators: Amanda Ameer, Jessica Goldstein
Poster Design: Nelson Hsu
Video Installation: 'Directions' by Grazia Toderi
Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins

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• Gil Shaham
• NPR Music
• Field Recording

[DennisAndNiallMusic]

Captain crunch is a hell of a drug

[campb450]

Such clean ornamentation in the A section

[betterassertion]

Sounds like just fiddling... Don't like this interpretation.

[lorenellis01]

goosebumps

[ColonelBLRZ]

Boo he played the repeat at the beginning. READ THE MANUSCRIPT, GIL! It's clearly not what Bach intended.

[bbkingblues77]

Wow.... I had never listened to this music, now I am a firm believer. That was music to my ears.

[agallo17]

I knrew at first this piece played by Andre' Segovia!!!

[chaosofscotty]

@hellstoast Que? Was? What?

[mrod621]

@hellstoast Yes, You must go to the HELL channel!

[benzdoct]

Thank You!