Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud, Sonatas by Debussy and Poulenc

In very few cities around the world could you hear a free concert almost every day of the week, but this week you can do exactly that in Washington, D.C. If you insist on paying for your music, some good choices are after the jump.

FREE, PLEASE:
>> Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud, two leading interpreters of their instruments, will play a free recital of music by Debussy, Poulenc, and Schubert this Friday (March 12, 8 p.m.) at the Library of Congress. If you cannot attend that night, they will play the same program on Saturday afternoon (March 13, 3 p.m.) at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

>> On Monday (March 8, 6 p.m.) the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage concludes its Conservatory Project with a free concert by students from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, in the Terrace Theater.

>> On Tuesday (March 9, 6 p.m.) the early music ensemble Capilla del Sol will perform a free concert of historical music composed for Jesuit missions in Latin America, at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

>> Take your lunch time on Wednesday (March 10, 12:10 p.m.) to hear a free recital by pianist Oni Buchanan, playing music by women composers of the 21st century at the National Gallery of Art (in the lecture hall on the ground floor of the West Building).

>> That evening (March 10, 6 p.m.), there will also be a concert by the NSO Youth Fellows at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.