(Classical Music Agenda by DCist contributor
Charles T. Downey of Ionarts)
Arts blogger Drew McManus, at Adaptistration,
has proclaimed that May is Take
a Friend to Orchestra Month. As Drew envisions it,
this is “your sanctioned excuse to approach a friend
about attending an orchestra concert with you.” (All
this week, Drew has been running responses to and
suggestions concerning his idea at Adaptistration.)
To that end, here is your weekly dose of concert
suggestions. If you just can’t get enough, there is
more information our regular Classical
Week in Washington, at Ionarts. Get out there,
people, and spread the classical love.
ORCHESTRAS:
>> This Tuesday (May 10 and 8 pm), Daniel Barenboim
comes to Washington with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, to play a concert
at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, sponsored by the
Washington
Performing Arts Society. Barenboim himself will
play the solo piano part in Mozart’s Piano
Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488. The program
concludes with Mahler’s transcendent Symphony No.
9. Tickets: $125 to $40 (apparently sold out).
