The National Symphony Orchestra Kicks Off 2023"2024 Season In September
The National Symphony Orchestra opens its season with eight programs in September and October 2023 that highlight the versatility of the orchestra; from programs that celebrate Music Director Gianandrea Noseda's musical heritage to collaborations with Artistic Advisor Ben Folds and rising musical artists.
The NSO to Present Four Classical Programs in March
The National Symphony Orchestra will continue its Classical series this March with four subscription concert programs at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, including a two-week residency with conductor, composer, and 2019 Kennedy Center Honoree Michael Tilson Thomas.
The Choral Arts Society of Washington Announces 2021-22 Sesaon
This year’s powerful list of performances is highlighted with celebrations of sound that include the East Coast premiere of An African American Requiem by composer Damien Geter, Christmas at the Kennedy Center with soloist Esther Heideman, the annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute with Washington Performing Arts, and Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Washington Performing Arts Announces Dates And Details For All-Online 2021 Home Delivery Plus Series
Washington Performing Art today announced new program details, streaming dates, and subscription plans with on-sale dates for Home Delivery Plus, its forthcoming all-online series of paid-admission performances and companion experiences. A major expansion of Washington Performing Arts’s Home Delivery online programming—which began in spring 2020—the Home Delivery Plus series offers more than a dozen week-long packages of pre-recorded performances in high-quality audio/video with complementary components like artist interviews, panel discussions, and behind-the-scenes artist footage—all custom-created for this new series.
The New Orchestra of Washington and Choral Arts Present Day of the Dead Concert
The New Orchestra of Washington and Choral Arts will celebrate Día de los Muertos in a joint presentation featuring Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem. The concert, which will be livestreamed on Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 7:30pm ET, will honor and commemorate the lives of those around the world who have lost their battle with COVID-19.
The Choral Arts Society of Washington Announces Reimagined 2020-21 Experiences
The Choral Arts Society of Washington (Choral Arts) has reimagined upcoming events and experiences for 2020-21 and announced plans for the coming months at awe & joy, a multimedia virtual event, that featured releases of music from the Choral Arts Archives, virtual ensembles, and guest appearances from performance partners.
BWW Review: Choral Arts Society Of Washington Finishes Season In All-French Program At Kennedy Center Concert Hall
When Scott Tucker, in his pre-concert introductory remarks before Sunday's Choral Arts Society of Washington performance, said that composer Florent Schmitt's style in Psalm 47 is 'off the wall,' he wasn't kidding. The 1903 setting for chorus, soprano, orchestra, and organ also includes brass, percussion, harp, timpani and sounds more like Mahler, Wagner, or Schonberg than the work of a man trained in composition by the always diplomatic innovator, Gabriel Faure. The gigantic, melodramatic, and ever dynamic piece--fun for musicians such as these, challenging, hard to sing, dandy--concluded an interesting program in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
Like Totally Festival Announces Second Round of Artists
Like Totally Festival, taking place on Huntington State Beach, California on Saturday, May 11, 2019 from 11am to 9pmannounces its second round of artists with The Bangles (Manic Monday/Walk Like An Egyptian), The Smithereens featuring Marshall Crenshaw (A Girl Like You/Blood And Roses), Martha Davis of The Motels (Suddenly Last Summer/Only The Lonely), Debora Iyall of Romeo Void (Never Say Never/A Girl in Trouble), along with Orange County's favorite cover band Flashback Heart Attack.
The Virginia Symphony, Led By JoAnn Falletta, Releases REQUIEM By Hector Berlioz
Acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta leads a massive musical force of over 100 musicians, including four antiphonal off-stage brass ensembles, and a chorus of 140 singers in a new recording of Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5, Requiem by Hector Berlioz. Recorded live at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk Virginia and released on the Hampton Roads Classics label (888295651097), the disc features the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, joined by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Robert Shoup, Chorusmaster, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, Scott Tucker, Artist Director and tenor soloist Robert McPherson.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Makes Debut In The Nutcracker as A Cannon Doll
Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, announces the 2017/18 season lineup of Cannon Dolls featured in The Nutcracker. The holiday favourite has a great tradition of inviting prominent Canadians to appear onstage in the guest roles with over 1,000 notable personalities making cameo appearances onstage to date.
Gianandrea Noseda to Lead National Symphony Orchestra In His First Concerts As Music Director Next Month
Gianandrea Noseda makes his highly anticipated first appearances as the seventh music director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in July with two performances: Friday, July 28, at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and Saturday, July 29, on the National Mall (between 4th and 7th Streets) with a free concert for the community as part of the day's celebration of Music and Movement: The National Symphony Orchestra and National Dance Day.