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Once again this week, there are so many free concerts on the schedule that we have to begin there.
MAKE IT FREE:
Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lindberg
>> Enjoy a musical lunchtime on Wednesday (October 21, 12:10 p.m.) with music from the Golden Age of the Netherlands performed by Carmina at the National Gallery of Art. No tickets required: just go to the ground floor lecture hall in the West Building.
>> As a commemoration of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, the Virginia Virtuosi will play a free concert on Wednesday (October 21, 7 p.m.) at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville. The program features music with Jewish themes or by Jewish composers, including works by Gershwin, Gottschalk, and Milhaud.
>> Violinist James Stern, a University of Maryland music faculty member, will perform all six of J. S. Bach's unaccompanied works for solo violin in a free concert on Friday evening (October 23, 7:30 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center.
>> The Adelphi String Quartet, the University of Maryland's new graduate student quartet in residence, makes its debut on Sunday (October 25, 2 p.m.) with a free concert at the Clarice Smith Center. The program features music by Mozart, Kurtág, and Beethoven.
>> Free with the cost of admission to the Phillips Collection on Sunday is a concert (October 25, 4 p.m.) by the Raphael Trio.
>> At the National Gallery of Art, the free Sunday concert series (October 25, 6:30 p.m.) will feature a program called "Orpheus in England," with music by Dowland and Purcell, performed by soprano Emma Kirkby, one of the pioneers of the British early music movement, and lutenist Jakob Lindberg. It is best to show up early to get a seat with some kind of view.
BEST OF THE REST:
>> The allure of alt-classical experimentation, shaking up the traditional classical world, may be enough for some listeners. For me, great playing and challenging music are still the only things that matter. Judge one such group for yourself, the NOW Ensemble, when they play on Monday night (October 19, 7 p.m.) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The program presents "new works by young composers" for the combination of piano, flute, clarinet, electric guitar, and double bass. Tickets: $20.
Soprano Dawn Upshaw
>> On Friday night (October 23, 7:30 p.m.) the beloved soprano Dawn Upshaw will perform a recital in the Music Center at Strathmore. In the past few years Upshaw has recovered from a battle with breast cancer, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, and returned to performing. Her 2008 recital was an event to be remembered.
>> Composer Nicholas Maw, who died this past spring at his home in Takoma Park, will receive a tribute concert on Saturday (October 24, 5 p.m.) at the Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Members of the 21st Century Consort will play an entire program of Maw's music.
>> By far the most exciting opera on the fall schedule at Washington National Opera is the production of Ariadne auf Naxos, which opens this Saturday night (October 24, 7 p.m.) at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Iréne Theorin, in the title role, will be joined by Lyubov Petrova (Zerbinetta), Kristine Jepson (Komponist), and Gidon Saks (Musiklehrer). Unfortunately, conductor Heinz Fricke will not be at the podium, but his replacement, Andreas Delfs, should have things well in hand.
>> Louis Langrée, director of the Mostly Mozart Festival, takes the reins of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this week, leading a program of classical music. The program, including Simone Dinnerstein playing one of the Mozart piano concerti, comes to the Music Center at Strathmore on Saturday (October 24, 8 p.m.).
>> The next concert sponsored by the Young Concert Artists Series will feature soprano Jeanine De Bique and Warren Jones, on Sunday afternoon (October 25, 2 p.m.) at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
>> For more concert information, go to Ionarts.
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