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In the month of December, this weekly agenda gets smaller and smaller as the number of concerts devoted to holiday music increases. Check our annual round-ups of concerts of seasonal music and and the endless performances of the M-Word, Handel's ever-popular oratorio, later this week. For now, there are three good pianists coming to the area.
 Gabriela Montero, pianist |
>> Austrian pianist Till Fellner also gave a splendid recital here last year. He returns to the National Gallery of Art on Sunday evening (December 7, 6:30 p.m.) to play a program completely devoted to Beethoven sonatas, including the sonatas of op. 31 and 101. This will be a much-relished third chance to hear the "Tempest" sonata (op. 31, no. 2), after performances recently by András Schiff and Maurizio Pollini. To make this concert irresistible, we have only to mention that it is free.
>> Wonny Song has impressed less in his recent appearance in Washington but can still be counted on to deliver a strong performance at his recital on Sunday night (December 7, 7:30 p.m.) at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville.
>> Tuesday night will feature a recital (December 2, 7:30 p.m.) by two Canadian singers, mezzo-soprano Susan Platts and baritone Brett Polegato. The Vocal Arts Society sponsors this program of German song in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets: $45.
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>> American composer Charles Wuorinen was recently in the news for plans to compose an opera based on the film Brokeback Mountain, although the commission will no longer be supported by New York City Opera as originally planned. The Library of Congress celebrates the American composer this Friday (December 5, 8 p.m.) with a free concert devoted to his chamber music.
>> Hear more contemporary music on Wednesday (December 3, 8 p.m.) at the recital of new music by students at the University of Maryland, in the Clarice Smith Center in College Park.
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>> On Friday (December 5, 7:30 p.m.) the evergreen Juilliard String Quartet will play a concert at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Their last concert in Washington showed that the group still had some of its polish and verve. Tickets: $50.
>> The University of Maryland Symphony offers an interesting program on Friday (December 5, 8 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center. In addition to performances of music by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, it will feature Project Petrouchka, a multimedia adaptation of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, with puppets, video, and choreographed movement by designer Douglas Fitch. Tickets: $25 (students, $7).
>> Natural Affinities, the latest program by 21st Century Consort, combines an alluring selection of music by Aaron Copland, Kaija Saariaho, and Augusta Read Thomas. Check it out on Saturday (December 6, 5 p.m.) in the lovely acoustic of the auditorium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Tickets: $22.
>> For more concert information, go to Ionarts.
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