Posted Classical Music Agenda to DCist
Photo by akkleis. This is a good week for hearing some great pianists in the area, and of all stripes and colors, too. Some good options for free concerts are listed after the jump. >> First, Alfred Brendel may not be giving public recitals anymore, but he still has plenty to say, as he will do in a lecture titled On Character in Music, presented by Washington Performing Arts Society at the Austrian Embassy...
Posted DCist Goes to the Opera: Götterdämmerung to DCist
Conductor Philippe Auguin In 2006, when Washington National Opera opened its American Ring Cycle, few could have imagined that it would end as it did on Saturday night, with a concert performance of Götterdämmerung. After very promising productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in 2006 and 2007, financial considerations delayed the staging of Siegfried by one season, to last spring, when it ended up with a troubled casting and special-effects woes. The collapse...
Posted Classical Music Agenda to DCist
Pianist François-Frédéric Guy will play all thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas at La Maison Française Free concerts are the headliner again this week, followed by a few concerts, of far too many on the schedule, that will require some money. >> If you have the Veterans' Day holiday off, the Zephyrus Ensemble performs a program of music by Couperin, Rebel, and Rameau on Wednesday at lunchtime (November 11, 12:10 p.m.) at the National Gallery of...
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