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The music of Bach is very familiar to audiences, but you haven't heard his music reimagined like this before as Sam Post and Ralitza Patcheva re-write Bach in a new syncopated style.

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Pershing's Own Chamber Players honor NGA's The Woman in White: Joanna Hiff ernan and James McNeill Whistler

March 27, 2023 9:00 pm

Presented by NGA

Join us as the the Pershing's Own Chamber Players pay homage to Joanna Hiffernan, who worked with James McNeill Whistler and is featured in many of his paintings.
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Sonnambula Ensemble performs Baroque music from the National Gallery of Art

April 3, 2023 9:00 pm

Presented by NGA

Do you love the mysterious and lesser-known? Don't miss a historically informed concert of baroque music by composers you may have never heard before!
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Chiarina presents Intersection: Music, Longing, and Displacement

April 10, 2023 9:00 pm

Don't miss this concert of music by first and second-generation American composers from St Mark's Church in Washington.
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Marc-André Hamelin plays Beethoven, Faure, and his own music

April 17, 2023 9:00 pm

Presented by Candlelight Concert Society in Columbia, MD

Hamelin plays music by 19th and 20th-century composers before playing his own composition inspired by an 18th-century master, Johann Sebastion Bach.
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21st Century Consort plays music for two pianos by Eugene O'Brien, Bela Bartok, and John Adams

April 24, 2023 9:00 pm

Presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

What better than 1 piano? 2 pianos! Don't miss this exciting concert that features pianists Lisa Emenheiser, Lura Johnson, Jenny Lin.
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