Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
Don't miss this performance featuring music by lifelong friends Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms on Front Row Washington. Plus, music by Paul Hindemith for an instrument that hasn't always been depicted in the best light!
Founded in 2015 by pianist Efi Hackmey and cellist Carrie Bean Stute, Chiarina brings distinctive chamber music performances and innovative programming to an intimate neighborhood setting in Capitol Hill, DC.
Travel with the NSO and Maestro Noseda
If you can’t yet get away for summer vacation, NSO Showcase has you covered. How’s this for an itinerary? Bohemia, Chicago, Norway to North Africa and Vienna? Your tour guide, Maestro Noseda, is from Italy, with an American guest conductor. We’ll begin our journey by celebrating the beauties of the natural world, as Teddy Abrams leads the National Symphony Orchestra in Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s In Nature’s Realm. Then Music Director Gianandrea Noseda takes over with Florence Price’s Symphony No.3, inspired by the Chicago Black Renaissance. Fresh from a triumphant visit to Carnegie Hall last April, Noseda demonstrated his characteristic ability to tell a story in stirring detail in Grieg’s portrait of the peripatetic scamp Peer Gynt. Our musical tour ends in Vienna, with a triumphant Beethoven’s Fifth. This program is truly a showcase of the artistry of the National Symphony Orchestra, as they bring to life Peer Gynt’s nightmarish trolls, the Juba dance from Florence Price’s symphony, and Beethoven’s all-powerful Fifth.
The Flying Dutchman
Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner's haunting tale of redemption through love, expressed through the natural and supernatural worlds, as an accursed Dutchman is condemned to sail the seas forever, unless redeemed by the love of a faithful woman. Tomasz Konieczny sings the title role in a production conducted by Thomas Guggeis. On Opera Matinee.
Music for Corpus Christi
Pange lingua, "Sing my tongue the Savior's glory," a traditional hymn for the Feast of Corpus Christi gets a workout in a Mass by Josquin de Prez; and Variations for orchestra, choir, and jazz quartet by Dave Brubeck. We'll also hear motets by Cesar Franck, Elgar, Mozart, and Colin Mawby. On Choral Showcase.
Where Are They Now?
This program is From the Top’s annual “Where Are They Now” show featuring interviews with From the Top alumni and the fantastic music they’re making in their early professional careers. We meet a pianist who just released an album to raise money for the people of Flint, Michigan suffering from the contaminated water crisis, a winner of last year’s Queen Elizabeth Competition, and a baritone who just won his first Grammy.
Classical Sunrise
Kick off the long days of summer with Classical Sunrise. We present perfectly paired music for each day's glorious summer sunrise.
- Monday 6:05AM Mendelssohn - Wedding March
- Tuesday 6:05AM Alfven - Festival March from "The Prodigal Son"
- Wednesday 6:05AM Traditional - Paradetas (Spanish Dance)
- Thursday 6:05AM Delibes - Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia"
- Friday 6:05AM Schumann - Violin Sonata No. 2: IV. Bewegt
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