Our music editor played with the Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra, which brings video game music to the masses.
“They’re deeper than passions, they’re also experiments,” the Artistic Director for Jazz says of the Jason + series.
The highly anticipated performance with the NSO Pops lived up to the hype.
Genre-crossing banjoist Béla Fleck will perform a program of classical music on Saturday at the Sixth & I Synagogue with the string quartet, Brooklyn Rider. DCist previews the show.
Rich arrangements, strong performances and an enthusiastic crowd characterized last night’s performance with Trey Anastasio and the NSO Pops at the Kennedy Center. Here’s DCist’s review.
Many agree that “classical” music, as it has existed for at least the past century, is endangered. Founded in 2003, the PostClassical Ensemble is trying to modernize the art form.
Charles Downey provides us with one last Classical Music Agenda. Click through for your weekly picks, including a free recital by soprano Sarah Coburn at the National Museum of Women in the Arts tonight.
Last night was one big mess, but at least it wasn’t a total loss for one group of people who headed out to see violinist Joshua Bell play at Strathmore. According to DCist reader Dakota Korth, when his group arrived at the venue, they were informed that the show was canceled due to a power outage. We’ll let Korth take it from there.
The news spread quickly last night: after much speculation about Plácido Domingo’s future with Washington National Opera, the legendary tenor announced he would retire as the company’s artistic director at the end of his current contract in June 2011.
In the fall of 2008, as the nation’s economy was teetering on the brink of collapse, the Kennedy Center launched its Arts in Crisis initiative. The project was initially conceived as a website through which administrators of struggling arts programs could interact and seek help from volunteer mentors at stable institutions. In conjunction with this online effort, Kennedy Center president Michael M. Kaiser went on a 69-city speaking tour that took him to all…