A happy marriage between Smithsonian's American Art Museum, 21st Century Consort

The 21st Century Consort's collaboration with the Smithsonian's American Art Museum is a happy marriage. The museum gets a distinguished concert series, and the Consort gets a fine hall and ready-made subjects to build programs around. Saturday's concert (this season's last) celebrated the museum's "Modern American Realism" exhibit with a program of folk-inspired pieces by Shulamit Ran, Luciano Berio, Evan Chambers and Aaron Copland, and, if the link to American realism was a little tenuous, the...