The music director of the National Symphony, Leonard Slatkin, is turning 60 years old and the Kennedy Center community will be celebrating in style. The birthday celebration is doubling as the National Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opening Ball.
The event is being billed as the opening event of Washington’s “autumn social calendar.” Here’s just a partial list of the musical luminaries planning on performing: Joshua Bell, Sir James Galway, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and everyone’s favorite one-named violinist Midori. (DCist asks, where is Yo-Yo Ma?)
But DCist would like to note that the opening ball is a bit of an expensive social expense. Though individual tickets are for sale, table tickets will cost you anywhere between $1,000 and $60,000.
Tickets to the actual performance will cost you anywhere from $20-$120.
