The Manhattan Project
Morning Roundup: Second Helpings Edition
Compromise Uncertain on Same-Sex Marriage Law
Fire at 17th and L NW Forces Evacuations
Sculpture Garden Ice-Skating Rink Remains Closed
It's a new year, and the winter and spring half of the season is getting under way. There are some excellent concerts planned in Washington over the next several months. We'll be letting you know more about them week by week, every Sunday.
SYMPHONY:
>> Why is DCist headlining the Baltimore Symphony? The incoming music director of the BSO — Marin Alsop, the first woman to hold that position with a major American orchestra — will be at the podium this week. The BSO is celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Peabody Institute with an interesting program (Strauss, Alpine Symphony; Stravinsky, Rite of Spring) in collaboration with performers from that conservatory. There is one performance at Strathmore on Saturday (January 13, 8 p.m.), but tickets (especially less expensive ones) may be scarce. There are also performances at Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore on Thursday and Friday (January 11 and 12, 8 p.m.) and Sunday afternoon (January 14, 3 p.m.).
>> The National Symphony Orchestra is back at the Kennedy Center this week. This program features violinist Leila Josefowicz playing the Hindemith concerto. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday (January 11 and 12, 7 p.m.) and Saturday (January 13, 8 p.m.). Tickets: $20 to $80 (full-time students may be able to purchase $10 tickets for the Friday performance, through the Attend! program).
>> It's almost as far as Baltimore, but the George Mason University Center for the Arts, in Fairfax, is hosting a concert by the Symphonica Toscanini on Friday (January 12, 8 p.m.). Lorin Maazel will conduct this group, founded in 2001, in a program of Rossini, Mendelssohn, and Respighi. Tickets: $27.50 to $55.
Free concerts after the jump.
Image of Marin Alsop by R. R. Jones
WORTH MENTION:
>> An interesting Washington-based vocal group called the Countertop Quartet will give a concert on Saturday (January 13, 7:30 p.m.), at St. Paul's Episcopal Church (2430 K St. NW). The program, Sweet Is the Song: Music for the Praise of Women, features music by Britten, Duruflé, Palestrina, Guerrero, Morales, and the group's composer-in-residence, Richard Rice. Tickets: $25.
FREE, FREE, FREE:
>> Washington has an excellent selection of free concerts, many of them hosted by museums. This Sunday (January 14, 3 p.m.), the Rome Trio, made up of members of the music faculty at Catholic University, will play a free concert in the new auditorium of the Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (8th and F Sts. NW). The program features music by Amy Beach, Mendelssohn, and others.
>> The same afternoon (January 14, 4 p.m.), it will be the Amadeus Trio in a free concert at the Phillips Collection (you still have to pay the price of admission to enter the museum, but the concert ticket is included).
>> The best free concert is the last one (January 14, 6:30 p.m.), featuring soprano Ellen Hargis and lutenist Paul O’Dette at the National Gallery of Art (enter at Constitution Ave. and 6th St. NW). This program features music from the time of Shakespeare, part of the city-wide cultural festival, Shakespeare in Washington.
>> For more concert information, go to Ionarts.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Post a comment (Comment Policy)