Month: November 2025

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Roberto Sierra: “Fandangos”
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Domingo Hindoyan
(Onyx)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 5 in F major
London Symphony Orchestra/Witold Rowicki
(Decca)

Borodin: “In the Steppes of Central Asia”
Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue
(Reference Recordings)

Osvaldo Golijov: “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind”
David Orlowsky, clarinet
Vogler Quartett
(Sony Classical)

Ravel: “Trois chansons madécasses”
Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
Simon Rattle, piano
Kaspar Zehnder, flute
David Adorján, cello
(Pentatone)

Respighi: Pastorale for violin & strings
(after Giuseppe Tartini)
Ingolf Turban, violin
English Chamber Orchestra/Marcello Viotti
(Claves)

Dave Hurwitz, the online sphere’s most prolific commentator on classical music, has thoughts on its perennially predicted demise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0JnFEaOno

Like Hurwitz, I don’t think classical music is dying; but I’m less sanguine than he is about the challenges that classical performers and presenters are facing now.

The good news for classical music, a niche interest, is that every other kind of music is a niche interest, and has been for years: https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/your-niche-or-mine/

The bad news for classical music is that it must adjust pretty rapidly to an environment of low-overhead production of low-cost or free entertainment.

It costs me nothing to watch Hurwitz praise or pan classical recordings, and then to access most of those recordings, on YouTube. For the price of a middling seat at the opera, I can buy a year’s worth of ad-free access. And I would invest in quality speakers or headphones if I didn’t already own them.

I can access well-made concert videos of A-list soloists and orchestras playing some favorite concerto. So what’s my motivation for spending a week’s worth of grocery money to see and hear the latest competition winner playing the concerto in my local concert hall? At a set date, time and location, which is a long drive from home? Among people who are in bronchial distress or forgot to turn off their phones? In a not especially comfortable seat that’s half a block from the stage?

Will I be compensated with an unforgettable live musical experience? I’ve been that lucky maybe a dozen times in 50-plus years of concertgoing; but the prohibitive odds are that the experience will be OK at best.

My real motivation wouldn’t be to experience this or that performance, but to support the organization that employs local musicians, whose work extends from the concert stage into schools, community events and places that otherwise wouldn’t have access to classical music.

Or would they? Updating Virgil Thomson’s quip, “Every town in America has two things – a five-and-dime and a Boulanger pupil,” every town now has a dollar store and a Juilliard graduate playing for donations. Such low- or no-cost performances are some of the most memorable live music I’ve heard.

Musicians who don’t have a trust fund or wealthy patrons, or aren’t keen on constant travel to free-lance gigs, had better find a non-musical job that pays the bills. (Some things never change.)

If I were an ambitious young classical musician today, I would work almost as hard on becoming a camera-friendly performer able to speak conversationally (i.e., non-technically) to an audience, and figuring out how to monetize those skills, as I would on mastering my instrument. And on mastering more TikTok-length solo pieces than concertos. We got a preview of this trend during Covid lockdown.

Alongside those challenges to artists, there are challenges to classical and other fine-arts institutions. The most significant is the passing of a generation of big individual donors and the disappearance-by-merger of hometown corporate sponsors.

The very rich of the 2020s are less prominent patrons of arts groups than the very rich of the 1970s, let alone the 1920s. Maybe they’ll grow into that role, or maybe they’ll just be aging gazillionaires-at-play. Collecting sports cars may get you through a midlife crisis; endowing the principal cellist’s chair probably won’t. If you own homes in four places, you might have a real stake in the cultural vitality of just one of them. Or none: Why settle for Scottsdale when your private jet can whisk you to Salzburg?

On the corporate philanthropic front: A national/international firm that has absorbed local/regional ones is less likely to make big donations to arts organizations or to buy naming rights for venues outside its headquarters city. Even there, putting its name and logo on an arena is a more visible and popular sign of community investment than doing so on a performing-arts center. Elsewhere, the best that most arts groups might anticipate is support from branch-office executives.

Given all that, a lot of classical-music institutions, big and small, are facing serious downsizing, changes in programming, and, for more than a few, bankruptcy.

And more classical musicians will be on their own, liberated creatively but seeing their vocation turn into an avocation.

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Mozart: Symphony No. 23 in D major, K. 181
Orchestre de Chambre de Genève/David Greilsammer
(Sony Classical)

Tchaikovsky: “Variations on a Rococo Theme”
Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Daniel Sepec
(Channel Classics)

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major (“The Clock”)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Colin Davis
(Eloquence)

Chausson: Concert in D major, Op. 21
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Orion Weiss, piano
Pacifica Quartet
(Çedille)

Mel Bonis: “Femmes de légende” (“Legendary Women”)
Orchestre National de Metz/David Reiland
(La Dolce Volta)

Two chaconnes for organ, found in 1992 in the Royal Library of Belgium, have been identified as early works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Authentication of the pieces took more than 30 years because the scores were not in Bach’s hand and the copyist, Salomon Günther John, an organist who claimed to be a pupil of Bach’s, was not identified until researchers found similar handwriting in documents that John is known to have written.

The chaconnes in G minor and D minor, assigned the numbers 1178 and 1179 in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) catalogue, were re-introduced by organist Ton Koopman at the Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, where Bach served as cantor in maturity and is buried.

The scores, dating from 1705, “are quite identifiable with Bach’s early style, in which the contrapuntal writing is not yet what it would become, but the imagination, grandeur, and sheer joy in playing are all there in abundance,” the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, a Bach specialist, told The Guardian’s Philip Oltermann:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/17/lost-js-bach-organ-compositions-performed-for-first-time-in-300-years

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia’s program of cellist James Wilson and fortepianist Carsten Schmidt playing Beethoven sonatas, scheduled for Nov. 16, has been canceled. Ticket refunds will be offered.

For more information, call (804) 304-6312.

The Kennedy Center’s performance schedule will go largely dark from Nov. 24 to Dec. 12 to accommodate the 2026 World Cup draw, The Washington Post reports, with FIFA (the Fédération Internationale de Football Association) paying no rental fees for the Dec. 5 draw and surrounding events.

World Cup matches will be held in 16 cities in the US, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19.

The Kennedy Center booking for FIFA will require postponement or relocation of concerts by the National Symphony Orchestra and other tenants of the center. The annual Kennedy Center Honors will be staged as scheduled on Dec. 7 in the Opera House.

Meanwhile, Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera’s artistic director, suggested in a Nov. 8 interview with The Guardian that the company may leave the Kennedy Center. Her comments were quickly rebutted by the center, which issued a statement by Andy Pharoah, the opera company’s board of trustees, that “[t]he WNO has no plans to move out of the Kennedy Center and we are proud to be part of America’s cultural center.”

Washington National Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra are affiliated administratively with the center. Their events and other attractions have seen a marked decline in ticket sales and season subscriptions since the takeover of the center by President Trump and his allies earlier this year.

(via https://slippedisc.com)

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Debussy: Danse (“Tarantelle styrienne”)
(Maurice Ravel orchestration)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
(Decca)

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major (“London”)
Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox
(Chandos)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: “Symphonic Variations on an African Air,” Op. 63
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Grant Llewellyn
(Argo)

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Stefan Vladar, piano
Artis Quartett
(Sony Classical)

Vaughan Williams: “Phantasy” Quintet
Maggini Quartet
Garfield Jackson, viola
(Naxos)

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Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for harp & orchestra
Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp
Berlin Philharmonic/Juan José Mena
(Berliner Philharmoniker)

Bernstein: Serenade “after Plato’s Symposium”
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
London Symphony Orchestra/Keith Lockhart
(eOne)

Ferruccio Busoni: Sonatina No. 6
(“Chamber Fantasy on Themes from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ ”)
Stephen Hough, piano
(Hyperion)

Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (“Razumovsky”)
Juilliard String Quartet
(Sony Classical)

Nielsen: Quartet No. 4 in F major, Op. 44
Danish String Quartet
(Dacapo)

Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, military, group and other discounts may be offered. Prices may include service fees.

Nov. 1 (2 p.m.)
Nov. 2 (2 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington
Washington National Opera
Kwamé Ryan conducting
Verdi: “Aïda”
Jennifer Rowley/Amber R. Monroe (Aïda)
Raehann Bryce-Davis/Agnieszka Rehlis (Amneris)
Adam Smith/Robert Watson (Radamès)
Shenyang (Amonasro)
Morris Robinson (Ramfis)
Kevin Short (the King)
Francesca Zambello, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$52-$355
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 1 (3 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Alexandre Kantorow, piano
J.S. Bach: “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” (Franz Liszt arrangement)
Medtner: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 5
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
J.S. Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 – V: Chaconne for piano left-hand (Johannes Brahms arrangement)
$41-$137
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 1 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Jader Bignamini conducting
Wynton Marsalis: “Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!”
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Richard Strauss: “Don Juan”
Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet”
$21-$145
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 2 (3 p.m.)
Perkinson Arts Center, 11810 Centre St., Chester
Richmond Symphony
Hae Lee conducting
Teddy McPherson, narrator
“The Science of Sound”
Gregory Smith: “Vibe”
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major (“Surprise”)
John Adams: “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”
$20-$30
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 2 (4 p.m.)
Ryan Recital Hall, St. Christopher’s School, 6010 Fergusson Road, Richmond
Richmond Philharmonic
Peter Wilson conducting
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Eroica”)
Morton Gould: “American Salute”
John Williams: “Born on the Fourth of July”
Matt Stevens, trumpet
Williams: “Saving Private Ryan” – “Hymn to the Fallen”
Tchaikovsky: “1812 Overture”
free
pre-concert talk at 3 p.m.
(804) 556-1039
https://richmondphilharmonic.org

Nov. 2 (3:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Series:
Jiyeon Choi, clarinet
Shelby Sender, piano
program TBA
$15
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 2 (3 p.m.)
Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church, 28 Old Stone Church Road, Fort Defiance
Staunton Music Festival:
Carsten Schmidt, fortepiano
“Piano Music circa 1830”
Schubert: impromptus, D. 899
Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11
Schubert: impromptus, D. 935
$26
(540) 800-6012
https://stauntonmusucfestival.org/events

Nov. 2 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Kennedy Center Chamber Players
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Hindemith: Viola Sonata in F major, Op. 11, No. 4
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
$48
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 3 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Nicholas Newton, bass-baritone
pianist TBA
program TBA
$45
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Myra Huang, piano
“Goin’ Home”
American songs TBA
$40-$60
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 7 (7 p.m.)
River Road Church, Baptist, River & Ridge roads, Richmond
E. Carl Freeman Concert Series:
Vox Humana
William Bradley Roberts directing
Brent te Velde, piano
Margaret Burk: “This Holy Hour”
Anastasia Jellison, harp
American choral anthems TBA
free; tickets required via https://eventbrite.com
(804) 288-1131
https://rrcb.org/e-carl-freeman-concert-series/

Nov. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 9 (2:30 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 W. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Rossini: “La Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”)
Lisa Marie Rogali (Angelina)
David Walton (Don Ramiro)
Patrick Wilhelm (Dandini)
Levi Hernandez (Don Magnifico)
Isaiah Musik-Ayala (Alidoro)
Maggie Kinabrew (Clorinda)
Melanie Dubil (Tisbe)
David Lefkowich, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$14.61-$152
(866) 673-7282
https://vaopera.org

Nov. 7 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
University Singers
UVa Chamber Singers
Michael Slon directing
UVa Women’s Chorus
Addie Walton directing
Virginia Glee Club
Frank Albinder directing
Family Weekend Choral Showcase
$15
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 7 (8 p.m.)
Nov. 8 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Pops
Steven Reineke conducting
“Steven’s Classical Mixtape”
works TBA by Ravel, Respighi, Elgar, Debussy, others
$33-$103
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 8 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First & Franklin streets
W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
program TBA
free; seating limited
(804) 646-7223
https://rvalibrary.org

Nov. 8 (7 p.m.)
Nov. 9 (3:30 p.m.)
Marburg House, 3102 Bute Lane, Richmond
Belvedere Series:
Angela Chan, violin
Jordan Bak, viola
Andres Sanchez, cello
Qing Jiang, piano
Kodály: Duo, Op. 7, for violin & cello
Vaughan Williams: Romance
Dvořák: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 87
Bak: works TBA
$55.20
(804) 833-1481
https://belvedereseries.org

Nov. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 9 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth & Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Valentina Peleggi conducting
Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Francesca Dego, violin
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
$20-$102.10
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW, Washington
Twincussion
traditional: “Cloudy Sky” (Yi-Chih Lu & Twincussion arrangement)
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia (Twincussion arrangement)
traditional: “Longing for the Spring Breeze” (Yi-Chih Lu & Twincussion arrangement)
Wayne Siegel: “42nd Street Rondo”
Chopin: Étude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3
Tomasz Golinski: “Layered Elements”
Twincussion: “Twin Beats”
Minoru Miki: “Marimba Spiritual II”
$40.25
(202) 785-9727
https://washingtonperformingarts.org

Nov. 9 (6:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth & Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program:
Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
Hae Lee conducting
String Sinfonietta
Matt Wilson conducting
Camerata Strings
Melissa Jones conducting
Youth Concert Orchestra
Sandy Goldie conducting
Percussion Ensemble
Justin Alexander directing
program TBA
free
(804) 788-1212
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 9 (3 p.m.)
Shaftman Performance Hall, Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave., Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley conducting
Grieg: “Peer Gynt” Suite No. 1
Nino Rota: Trombone Concerto
Jay Crone, trombone
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major (“Pastoral”)
$34-$61
(540) 343-9127
https://rso.com

Nov. 9 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Jonathon Heyward conducting
Dukas: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Ravel: “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2
Mussorgsky: “Night on Bald Mountain”
Scriabin: “Prometheus: Poem of Fire”
George Li, piano
University of Maryland Concert Choir
$37-$107
(877) 276-1444
https://strathmore.org

Nov. 13 (7 p.m.)
Williamsburg Community Chapel, 3899 John Tyler Highway
Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra
Morihiko Nakahara conducting
Alli Mauzey & Nicole Parker, vocalists
“Broadway Divas”
$75
(757) 229-9857
https://williamsburgsymphony.org

Nov. 13 (7 p.m.)
Nov. 14 (11:30 a.m.)
Nov. 15 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée conducting
Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”)
Marvin Mills, organ
$21-$145
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 16 (2:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth & Grace streets, Richmond
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Rossini: “La Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”)
Lisa Marie Rogali (Angelina)
David Walton (Don Ramiro)
Patrick Wilhelm (Dandini)
Levi Hernandez (Don Magnifico)
Isaiah Musik-Ayala (Alidoro)
Maggie Kinabrew (Clorinda)
Melanie Dubil (Tisbe)
David Lefkowich, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$18.60-$168.10
(866) 673-7282
https://vaopera.org

Nov. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival:
BlackBox Ensemble
other artists TBA
programs TBA
free; reservation recommended
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Nov. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 15 (7 p.m.)
Nov. 16 (2 p.m.)
Nov. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 22 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington
Washington National Opera
Robert Spano conducting
Mozart: “The Marriage of Figaro”
Le Bu/Robert Frazier (Figaro)
Joélle Harvey/Vivianna Goodwin (Susanna)
Rosa Feola/Annaliese Klenetsky (Countess Almaviva)
Will Liverman/Thandolwethu Mamba (Count Almaviva)
John Holiday/Veronica Siebert (Cherubino)
Elizabeth Bishop/Michelle Mariposa (Marcellina)
Willard White/Atticus Rego (Bartolo)
Rodell Rosel/Nicholas Huff (Basilio)
Kevin Thompson/Chandler Benn (Antonio)
Peter Kazaras, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$29-$355
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 15 (7 p.m.)
Altria Theater, Main & Laurel streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Pops
conductor TBA
“One Piece Music Symphony”
$13.60-$106.10
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Nov. 16 (3:30 p.m.)
Martin Luther King Jr. Arts Center, Charlottesville High School, 1400 Melbourne Road
Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia
UVa University Singers
Christopher Rous & Michael Slon conducting
Johann Strauss II: “Die Fledermaus” Overture
Dinuk Wijeratne: “Polyphonic Lively”
Dvořák: “The American Flag” – “The Colors of the Flag”
Dvořák: Mass in D major
soloists TBA
$10-$53
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW, Washington
Midori, violin
Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Che Buford: “Resonances of Spirit”
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 24 (“Spring”)
Poulenc: Violin Sonata
Clara Schumann: “Three Romances”
Robert Schumann: “Three Romances,” Op. 94
Schubert: “Rondo brillante” in B minor, D. 895
$69
(202) 785-9727
https://washingtonperformingarts.org

Nov. 15 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Reena Esmail: “RE|member”
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor
Nemanja Radulović, violin
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major
$48-$80
(877) 276-1444
https://strathmore.org

Nov. 16 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Midori, violin
Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Che Buford: “Resonances of Spirit”
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 24 (“Spring”)
Poulenc: Violin Sonata
Clara Schumann: “Three Romances”
Robert Schumann: “Three Romances,” Op. 94
Schubert: “Rondo brillante” in B minor, D. 895
$25
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Nov. 16 (4 p.m.)
Black Music Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Grove Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Community Guitar Ensemble
program TBA
free
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Nov. 16 (3 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Grace Park, violin
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 12, No. 2
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 12, No. 3
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
$15-$32
(757) 892-6366
https://virginiasymphony.org

Nov. 17 (7:30 p.m.)
Kaufman Theater, Chrysler Museum of Art, 1 Memorial Place, Norfolk
Feldman Chamber Music Society:
Ying Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 (“Rider”)
Bartók: Quartet No. 2
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (“Razumovsky”)
$40
(757) 552-1630
https://feldmanchambermusic.org

Nov. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Recital Hall, North Court, University of Richmond
William Ferguson, tenor
Steven Philcox, piano
Schubert: “Winterrreise,” D. 911
free; reservation recommended
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Nov. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Tuesday Evening Concerts:
Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet
Kian Soltani, cello
Alessio Bax, piano
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 11 (“Gassenhauer”)
Schubert: Cello Sonata in A minor, D. 821 (“Arpeggione”)
Mendelssohn: “Lieder ohne Worte” (selections)
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
$12-$45
(434) 924-3376
https://tecs.org

Nov. 18 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Young Concert Artists:
Radu Ratoi, accordion
Rameau: “Pygmalion” Overture
J.S. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Per Nørgård: “Anatomic Safari”
Liszt: “Transcendental Etudes” – X: “Appassionata”
Anatoly Kusyakov: Sonata No. 6 – part 2
Hannah Ishizaki: new work TBA
Schubert: Quartet in D minor, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”) – IV: Presto
Stravinsky: “Suite Italienne”
Lun Li, violin
Saint-Saëns: “Danse macabre”
$25-$50
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 19 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU University Band
Philip Duane Coston directing
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Nov. 20 (7 p.m.)
Nov. 22 (8 p.m.)
Nov. 23 (3 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conducting
Britten: “Sinfonia da Requiem”
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Pablo Ferrández, cello
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
$21-$145
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Laurel Street at Floyd Avenue, Richmond
Bálint Karosi, organ
Nicolas de Grigny: “Ave Maris Stella”
Akira Nishimura: “Vision in Flames”
J.S. Bach: “Klavier-übung” III (selections)
Karosi: Organ Sonata – I: Allegro moderato
Liszt: “Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ ”
free; registration required
(804) 359-5651
https://richmondcathedral.org

Nov. 21 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Baroque Orchestra
David Sariti directing
program TBA
$10
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 21 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Pops
Lucas Waldin conducting
Capathia Jenkins & Ryan Shaw, vocalists
“ICON: the Voices That Changed Music”
$39-$107
(877) 276-1444
https://strathmore.org

Nov. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Christoph Wagner, cello
Joanne Kong, piano
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
free; reservation recommended
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Nov. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 23 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Rossini: “La Cenerentola” (“Cinderella”)
Lisa Marie Rogali (Angelina)
David Walton (Don Ramiro)
Patrick Wilhelm (Dandini)
Levi Hernandez (Don Magnifico)
Isaiah Musik-Ayala (Alidoro)
Maggie Kinabrew (Clorinda)
Melanie Dubil (Tisbe)
David Lefkowich, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$45-$116
(703) 993-2787
https://vaopera.org

Nov. 22 (3:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Carol Wincenc, flute
pianist TBA
program TBA
free
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 23 (3 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Cavalier Symphony Orchestra
conductors TBA
program TBA
donations benefit Albemarle High School Orchestra
(434) 979-1333
https://theparamount.net

Nov. 23 (3:30 p.m.)
St. Paul’s Memorial Church, 1701 University Ave., Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Singers
Michael Slon directing
“Arvo Pärt at 90”
Pärt: works TBA
$15
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Nov. 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Series:
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Myra Huang, piano
“Fellow Citizens”
works TBA by Schubert, Bartók, Dvořák, Vaughan Williams, Kurt Weill, Florence Price, Missy Mazzoli, Jake Heggie, others
$61
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Nov. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
UR Wind Ensemble
Brianna Gatch directing
Christoph Wagner, cello
program TBA
free; reservation recommended
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Nov. 29 (2 & 7 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth & Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Pops
Richmond Symphony Chorus
Hae Lee conducting
“Let It Snow!”
$14.60-$104.10
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 29 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Chanticleer
“A Chanticleer Christmas”
$45-$71
(703) 993-2787
https://cfa.gmu.edu

Nov. 30 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth & Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Brass Ensemble
“Holiday Brass”
$14.60-$104.10
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
https://richmondsymphony.com

Nov. 30 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Dan Schlosberg, piano
works TBA by Purcell, Handel, Berlioz, Gershwin, Meredith Wilson, others
$53
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Dec. 1 (7 p.m.)
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Laurel Street at Floyd Avenue, Richmond
artists TBA
Holiday Festival of Music
program TBA
$57.50-$73, via https://www.cccofva.org/concert/tickets; proceeds benefit Commonwealth Catholic Charities
(804) 359-5651
https://richmondcathedral.org

Dec. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
UR Chamber Ensembles
program TBA
free; reservation recommended
(804) 28908980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Dec. 2 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU choirs
Fall concert
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Dec. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Tuesday Evening Concerts:
Chanticleer
“A Chanticleer Christmas”
$12-$45
(434) 924-3376
https://tecs.org

Dec. 3 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Myssyk conducting
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Dec. 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
UR Symphony Orchestra
Naima Burrs conducting
Ethan Rodgers-Gates, cello
Adam Kasti, clarinet
program TBA
free; reservation recommended
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Dec. 4 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Percussion Ensemble
Justin Alexander directing
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Dec. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Jennifer Koh, violin
Thomas Sauer, piano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 12, No. 1
Vijay Iyer: “Bridgewater Fantasy”
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
$61
(800) 444-1324
https://kennedy-center.org

Dec. 5 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU faculty & student artists & ensembles
38th annual Holiday Gala
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Dec. 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Churchland High School, 4301 Cedar Lane, Portsmouth
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Adam Turner conducting
“Classical Christmas”
free
(757) 892-6366
https://virginiasymphony.org

Dec. 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Salem Civic Center, 1001 Roanoke Boulevard
Roanoke Symphony Pops
David Stewart Wiley conducting
“Holiday Pops Spectacular”
$32-$72
(540) 343-9127
https://rso.com

Dec. 6 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Neave Trio
program TBA
$14
(804) 828-2787
https://arts.vcu.edu/music/#concerts-events

Dec. 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Southampton High School Auditorium, 23350 Southampton Way, Courtland
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Adam Turner conducting
“Classical Christmas”
$30
(757) 653-8901
https://franklinsouthamptonconcerts.org/category/concerts/

Dec. 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia
UVa University Singers
Michael Slon conducting
Family Holiday Concert
$11-$59
(434) 924-3376
https://music.virginia.edu/upcoming-events-list

Dec. 6 (2 & 7:30 p.m.)
Historic Academy Theater, 600 Main St., Lynchburg
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra
David Glover conducting
Adelaide Trombetta, soprano
The Seven Hills Chorus
“Happy Holidays with the LSO”
$20-$100
(434) 528-3256
https://lynchburgsymphony.org

Dec. 6 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor
sold out; waiting list
(703) 563-1990
https://fairfaxsymphony.org

Dec. 7 (4 p.m.)
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Patterson & Forest avenues, Richmond
Richmond Choral Society
Markus Compton directing
Christopher Martin, organ
Keith Tan, piano
string & percussion ensemble
“Christmas with the Richmond Choral Society”
works TBA by J.S. Bach, André J. Thomas, others
$11.90-$20.34
(804) 353-9582
https://www.richmondchoralsociety.org/

Dec. 7 (5 & 8 p.m.)
Cannon Memorial Chapel, University of Richmond
UR Schola Cantorum
Jeffrey Riehl directing
reciters TBA
52nd annual Candlelight Festival of Lessons and Carols
free; seating limited
(804) 289-8980
https://modlin.richmond.edu

Dec. 7 (7 p.m.)
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Arthur Ashe Boulevard at Kensington Avenue, Richmond
Dec. 8 (7 p.m.)
Bon Air Baptist Church, 2531 Buford Road, Richmond
Richmond Philharmonic
Peter Wilson conducting
Holiday Pops
free
(804) 556-1039
https://richmondphilarmonic.org

Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
River Road Church, Baptist, River & Ridge roads, Richmond
E. Carl Freeman Concert Series:
River Road Chancel Choir & orchestra
Robert Gallagher conducting
Handel: “Messiah” – Part 1 & “Hallelujah” Chorus
soloists TBA
free; tickets required via https://eventbrite.com
(804) 288-1131
https://rrcb.org/e-carl-freeman-concert-series/

Dec. 7 (4 p.m.)
Petersburg High School auditorium, 3101 Johnson Road
Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Alex Wilkerson conducting
Holiday concert & sing-along
$23
(804) 732-0999
https://petersburgsymphony.org

Dec. 7 (2:30 & 7 p.m.)
William & Mary Concert Hall, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Adam Turner conducting
“Classical Christmas”
$15-$39
(757) 892-6366
https://virginiasymphony.org