Author: letterv13

Among this country’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson was the best-known musician. He played the violin, amassed a large collection of scores, many acquired during his years as US Minister to France, and presided over family musicales at Monticello, his estate near Charlottesville.

Now, from research by the baroque violinist David McCormick, we learn that the sons of Jefferson and his enslaved concubine Sally Hemings, as well as other relatives of Hemings, also were accomplished musicians.

McCormick, a Shenandoah University alumnus, founding artistic director of the Charlottesville baroque ensemble Three Notch’d Road and executive director of Early Music America, writes for EMA’s magazine about the family fiddle bands organized by the sons of Jefferson and Hemings, and their cousins in the Scott family, much in demand to play for dances and other social gatherings in 19th-century Virginia and Ohio:

http://www.earlymusicamerica.org/emag-feature-article/rock-reel-monticellos-black-fiddlers/

McCormick has produced a multimedia project, “Monticello’s Black Fiddlers,” accessible in March via http://earlymusiccville.org Several events stemming from his research are planned in coming months at Monticello (http://www.monticello.org).

(via http://www.artsjournal.com)

Valentina Peleggi conducting
with Stefan Jackiw, violin
Jan. 29-30, Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center
(reviewed from online stream, posted Feb. 2)

The Richmond Symphony’s first Masterworks program of the new year was a Viennese evening, but with only occasional and subtle hints of the waltz.

The program opened with the US premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s “Alma’s Songs without Words,” which the symphony’s music director, Valentina Peleggi, described as a “free transcription” of three Lieder (art-songs) by Alma Schindler Mahler.

Alma (1879-1964) was one of the most thoroughly networked figures in 20th-century culture – daughter of a well-known landscape painter (Emil Jakob Schindler); pupil of two prominent composers (Josef Labor and Alexander von Zemlinsky); wife of an even more prominent composer and conductor (Gustav Mahler); subsequently married to leading lights of modern architecture (Walter Gropius) and literature (Franz Werfel); involved romantically with Zemlinsky and the painter Oskar Kokoschka; and sometime soulmate of the painter Gustav Klimt. Her daughter, the short-lived Manon Gropius, was the “angel” to whom Alban Berg dedicated his Violin Concerto. Alma’s salons in Vienna, and later in Los Angeles, where she and Werfel settled after fleeing the Nazi takeover of Austria, brought together many of the creative and intellectual luminaries of her time.

Her music – mostly Lieder, piano pieces and chamber works, all dating from the early 1900s – reflects the intensely romantic, soulful yet world-weary tone of Viennese music in its pre-World War I fin de siècle epoch.

Panufnik, who also has a lineage in modern musical history (her father was the Polish-born British composer Andrzej Panufnik), sonically brightens the tone of Alma’s songs in an eventful orchestration that, following a richly burnished cello solo, played here by Neal Cary, apportions melodies democratically among winds and strings. While rooted in the songs’ romantic style, Panufnik’s treatment of them ventures well beyond old Vienna into a soundscape of neo-impressionist tone color and atmospheric scoring for winds, harp, celesta and percussion.

Peleggi’s reading of Panufnik’s orchestration played up its post-Viennese, coloristic qualities, with winds and percussion sounding as prominently as strings through much of the piece. (Or so it sounded in the audio mix of the online stream of this performance.) The moody lyricism of the original songs came through clearly, but more as an undertone than as a foreground characteristic.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the Viennese prodigy who became a leading composer of film scores in 1930s and ’40s Hollywood, straddled the old and new worlds in his music, especially in the concert works he produced in the last decade of his life. The most durable of these compositions was his Violin Concerto in D major, written for Jascha Heifetz, introduced in 1947.

Heifetz cast a long shadow in American music. His brilliant, tonally sharp-focused, temperamentally febrile sound was the model of virtuosity for generations of violinists. Composers who wrote for him had to reckon with, if not outright cater to, that sound. Korngold’s concerto is one of the few Heifetz vehicles to have thrived without its original protagonist, because it is more than virtuoso fiddling with orchestral padding.

Stefan Jackiw, the featured soloist in the Korngold, summoned all the Heifetz-scale brilliance packed into the piece’s high-register phrases and quick-fingered filigree, but devoted as much or more care to the concerto’s lyrical and colorful qualities.

The violinist, as well as conductor Peleggi, clearly remembered that this music is a product of Hollywood – Korngold lifted some of the concerto’s themes from his film scores – and that much of the piece, especially its busy final movement, is a marriage of Mitteleuropische late-romanticism with the swaggering energy of mid-20th century America.

Jackiw’s willingness to balance solo pyrotechnics with more collaborative interactions between the violin and orchestra, and his audible determination to let this music breathe, made this an unusually fleshed-out, fully realized interpretation of the Korngold concerto.

The program closed, back in Vienna but predating Mahler (Alma or Gustav), with Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor. This was Peleggi’s deepest dive to date in her Richmond tenure into the German romantic canon, and the results were both gratifying and revealing.

The conductor captured and sustained the pulse that propels Brahms’ music, deeper than mere rhythm, sturdy enough to accommodate expressive shifts of tempo (which Peleggi applied fairly liberally) and to be sensed even in the symphony’s more dramatic and assertive passages.

Peleggi has spent much of her career leading voices, in both choral music and opera, and her ear for song-like phrasing and chorus-like ensemble playing was evident throughout the performance, from the full-hearted lyricism of the symphony’s slow movement to the anthemic big theme of its finale.

The stream of the program remains accessible through June 30, 2022. Single-concert access: $30. Full Masterworks season access: $180. Details: (800) 514-3849 (ETIX); http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Black History Month, which began as Negro History Week, organized in 1926 by the historian Carter G. Woodson, is each year’s premier occasion for revivals and re-evaluations of the culture and artistry of Black Americans.

In classical music for many years, it also was a calendar ghetto into which performances of works by Black composers were packed. (January’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has been used similarly.) In the wake of the recent racial-justice movement, the music finally is being freed from those mid-winter bonds.

In any case, it’s productive and rewarding to spend Black History Month exploring in some depth a musical culture that over the past century has become so deeply embedded that much of what we hear as “American” in music – popular, classical and most every sound in between – is substantially African-American in its DNA. (As are our language, food, fashion and numerous other cultural manifestations.)

Classical critics and media typically spend this month acquainting listeners with music by Black composers, from William Grant Still and George Walker (whose centenary is being celebrated this year), to long-neglected figures such as Florence Price and Julius Eastman, to living creators such as Adolphus Hailstork and Jessie Montgomery.

Worthy endeavors – but this month I’ve decided to take a different path: Collecting 10 examples that tap deep roots of Black American music, folk and vernacular source matter for many composers writing for orchestras, chamber groups and recitalists.

In the following audio clips, you’ll encounter some familiar names – the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Scott Joplin, James P. Johnson; but most of the performers and pieces that I’ve chosen are little-known outside of specialist circles. Six of the 10 are of religious music, which shouldn’t be a surprise – most African-American musical styles can be traced back to the church. More surprising, perhaps, are the number of selections that came from or passed through Virginia, an under-appreciated seedbed of Black music.

In making my choices, I listened for musical essences: Instrumental and vocal techniques and expressive effects, treatments of phrasing, rhythm, tone-color and dynamics, solo-and-group interactions, that musicians and listeners – of all races around the world, by now – almost reflexively recognize as Black American.

Here’s what I came up with:

Blind Willie Johnson: “Dark Was the Night” – Johnson (1897-1945), a blues and gospel singer-guitarist from Texas, made this recording in 1927. Closely related to the field holler, the spontaneous, wordless solo vocalizing of rural Black Southerners, the song can serve as a primer in the phrasing, note-bending and contrasting rhythms (here, quite subtle) characteristic of some West African music and many styles of Black music in the Americas. Plucked from obscurity during the 1960s blues revival, “Dark Was the Night” has become a practice or warmup piece for many guitarists, rather like the Bach solo sonatas and partitas are for violinists. Picked up since the ’70s by some major musical influencers, notably the Kronos Quartet and Ry Cooder, the song has become a Black aural lode-star for contemporary musicians working in a variety of genres:

Traditional spiritual: “I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray” – A 1909 recording by a male quartet from the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the ensemble from Fisk University in Nashville that introduced the spirituals to US and European Whites in the decades following the Civil War. Treble elaborations atop close-harmony group melodizing became standard practice in Black gospel song and its stylistic inheritors in rhythm and blues. Something quite like this also can be heard in trumpet, clarinet and other horn solos of the first generation of jazz musicians, and in the works of classical composers influenced by jazz in the 1920s and ’30s:

Charles A. Tindley: “The Storm Is Passing Over” – Tindley (1851-1933), a Philadelphia Methodist preacher and musician, wrote two songs that are foundational in American music: “I’ll Overcome Someday,” which evolved into the civil-rights anthem “We Shall Overcome;” and “The Storm Is Passing Over,” published in 1905, considered by many to be the first modern Black gospel song. The Donald Vails Choraleers’ 1976 recording became so popular and widely imitated that Vails is sometimes mistakenly identified as the song’s composer:

Scott Joplin: “Magnetic Rag” – Joplin (1868-1917) was the greatest of the ragtime pianist-composers of the late-19th and early 20th centuries. This is his last and most ambitiously scaled piano rag, subtitled “Synchopations Classiques,” composed in 1914, three years after he completed his opera “Treemonisha.” Joplin made a piano roll of the piece, which sadly sounds stiff and uninflected – a chronic shortcoming of that medium. Here instead is the 1979 recording by Joshua Rifkin, the pianist and musicologist who led the modern revival of Joplin’s music:

Arizona Dranes: “Crucifixion” – Dranes (1889/91?-1963), a Texas singer and pianist, was one of the first Black Pentecostal musicians to make records, and one of many church musicians of her generation to adopt the ragtime piano style – as did the “Piedmont” blues artists in the southeastern US, who in turn would influence White country and bluegrass musicians in the region. (Ragtime changed everything in American music.) This rare solo-piano recording by Dranes, made in the late 1920s, is an example of the “church march” processional that is traditional in many Black Pentecostal services:

The Sparkling Four: “They Won’t Believe in Me” – From the 19th-century flowering of Creole culture in New Orleans and other Southern port cities to the present day, Black musicians in the US frequently have inflected their styles with Caribbean and Latin-American accents, widely employed in jazz and some classical works. Here, more unusually, musical cultures cross in a Caribbean-accented Black gospel song by The Sparkling Four, one of many male quartets active in the Hampton Roads ports of southeastern Virginia in the early 20th century. The group recorded the song for Okeh Records, at the time a leading US label for “race” and regional/subcultural musics, during 1929 sessions in Richmond:

Thomas Wiggins: “The Battle of Manassas” – Sui generis in Black American music, arguably so in this country’s music generally, Wiggins (1849-1908), born blind and enslaved in Georgia, billed as “Blind Tom, the Eighth Wonder of the World,” was one of the most popular musicians in mid- and late-19th century America. A sometime Virginia resident and superstar of Richmond’s music halls in the 1860s, Wiggins was famed for his piano virtuosity and prodigious memory, said to retain thousands of tunes. His compositions range from dance pieces and marches to tone poems. The Civil War-vintage “Battle of Manassas,” an American echo of the venerable European battaglia genre, is perhaps his most venturesome work, couched in a harmonic language years ahead of its time – as if Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” had been re-imagined by Charles Ives. Here’s the 1999 recording by John Davis, the pianist who launched a modern revival of Wiggins’ music:

R. Nathaniel Dett: “His Song” from “In the Bottoms” – Dett (1882-1943) was a Canadian-born composer, pianist, arranger of spirituals and choral director at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) from 1926 to 1932, among other academic posts. “His Song,” the second movement of the 1913 suite “In the Bottoms,” immerses a tune that could be a prototype of the bluesy torch song in the harmonies and tone colors of the then-current French impressionist style. It’s played here by Clipper Erickson from his 2015 collection of Dett’s solo-piano works:

James P. Johnson: “You’ve Got to Be Modernistic” – Johnson (1894-1955) was the master of stride piano, the energized and elaborated offspring of ragtime. In retrospect, he may rate as the most influential US musician of the 1920s: He wrote “Charleston,” the decade’s theme song; his technique and compositional style resonates in much of George Gershwin’s music, as well as that of generations of jazz pianists. Here’s Johnson playing “You’ve Got to Be Modernistic,” introduced in 1929, recorded the following year:

Maggie Ingram: “Richmond, Virginia Flood” – Ingram (1930-2015), a daughter of Georgia sharecroppers, was a widely traveled gospel singer who ultimately settled in Richmond in the 1960s. She wrote this testimony-in-song in response to a 1985 flood, and recorded the piece a year later with her family ensemble, the Ingramettes. It’s a classic of oration that segues into or alternates with song (recitative and aria, in opera parlance), a widespread practice in the Black church, especially in Pentecostal congregations, that has migrated into jazz poetry, rap/hip-hop and various experimental or avant-garde genres:

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.

Each listing includes primary Covid-19 safety protocols for the event. Contact presenters or venues for detailed requirements.

Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St.
Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg:
Escher Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in C major, K. 465 (“Dissonance”)
Bartók: Quartet No. 3
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
$25 (waiting list)
masks required
(757) 741-3300 (Williamsburg Regional Library)
http://chambermusicwilliamsburg.org

Feb. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Will Liverman, baritone
Myra Huang, piano
Ravel: “Don Quichotte à Dulcinée”
works TBA by Richard Strauss, Howard Swanson
$50
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Richard Becker, piano & speaker
Becker: “Nine Inventions to the Muses”
works TBA by Mozart, Liszt, Chopin
reading of poems from Becker’s “On Sunday Afternoon”
free; ticket registration required
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Feb. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Pops
Adam Turner conducting
“The Music of the Bee Gees”
$25-$110
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Feb. 3 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New conducting
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto
Jennifer Koh, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
$15-$109
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 4 (8 p.m.)
Capital One Hall, 7750 Capital One Tower Road, Tysons
National Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New conducting
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto
Jennifer Koh, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
$29-$69
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 653-8000 (Ticketmaster)
http://capitalonehall.com/events

Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Pops
conductor TBA
Tony DeSare & Capathia Jenkins, guest stars
“Jazz & Swing – a Classic Tribute”
$10-$82
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 6 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: “Three Decembers”
Karen Ziemba (Madeline Mitchell)
Cecilia Violetta López (Beatrice Mitchell)
Efraín Solís (Charlie Mitchell)
Lawrence Edelson, stage director
in English, English captions
$45-$115
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result & masks required
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org

Feb. 6 (3 p.m.)
Capital One Hall, 7750 Capital One Tower Road, Tysons
American Youth Philharmonic
Timothy Dixon conducting
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major
soloist TBA
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
free
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 653-8000 (Ticketmaster)
http://capitalonehall.com/events

Feb. 9 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Guitar Studio
program TBA
free
masks required
(804) 828-1169
http://arts.vcu.edu/events

Feb. 10 (6:30 p.m.)
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Overbrook Road at Ownby Lane, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
conductor TBA
program TBA
$30
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 11 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 13 (2:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: “Three Decembers”
Karen Ziemba (Madeline Mitchell)
Cecilia Violetta López (Beatrice Mitchell)
Efraín Solís (Charlie Mitchell)
Lawrence Edelson, stage director
in English, English captions
$12.50-$85
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org

Feb. 12 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Mark Valenti, piano
works TBA by Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Barber
free
masks required
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events/gellman-concerts

Feb. 12 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Feb. 13 (3:30 p.m.)
Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center, Charlottesville High School, 1400 Melbourne Road
Charlottesville Symphony
Benjamin Rous conducting
Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major for strings
Copland: “Appalachian Spring” Suite
$10-$45
masks required
(434) 924-3376
http://music.virginia.edu/events

Feb. 12 (7:30 p.m.)
Feb. 13 (3 p.m.)
Shaftman Performance Hall, Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave., Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley conducting
“Vienna Valentine”
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (“Unfinished”)
Suppé: “Light Cavalry” Overture
Johann Strauss II: “Pizzicato Polka”
Johann Strauss II: “Thunder and Lightning Polka”
Johann Strauss II: “Vienna Blood”
Johann Strauss II: “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
$34-$56
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result & masks required
(540) 343-9127
http://rso.com

Feb. 13 (3 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Rennolds Chamber Concerts:
Imani Winds
program TBA
$30 (general admission)
masks required
(804) 828-1169
http://arts.vcu.edu/event/mary-anne-rennolds-chamber-music-series-imani-winds/

Feb. 13 (3 p.m.)
Altria Theater, Main and Laurel streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
George Daugherty conducting
“Bugs Bunny at the Symphony!”
$10-$82
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 13 (3 p.m.)
Good Luck Cellars, 1025 Goodluck Road, Kilmarnock
Feb. 19 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 20 (3 p.m.)
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 4103 Monument Ave., Richmond
Capitol Opera Richmond
RVA Baroque
conductor TBA
Monteverdi: “The Coronation of Poppea”
cast TBA
$30 (Kilmarnock); $25 (Richmond)
masks required
(804) 840-7878
http://capitoloperarichmond.com

Feb. 13 (3 p.m.)
Capital One Hall, 7750 Capital One Tower Road, Tysons
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Debussy: “La Mer”
Holst: “The Planets”
$45-$99
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 653-8000 (Ticketmaster)
http://capitalonehall.com/events

Feb. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Tuesday Evening Concerts:
Natasha Paremski, piano
Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Chopin: Mazurka in B major, Op. 63, No. 1
Thomas Adès: Mazurka, Op. 27, No. 1
Chopin: Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63, No. 2
Adès: Mazurka, Op. 27, No. 3
Chopin: Scherzo in C sharp minor, Op. 39
Mussorgsky: “Pictures at an Exhibition”
$12-$39
masks required
(434) 924-3376
http://tecs.org

Feb. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Cramton Auditorium, Howard University, 2455 Sixth St. NW, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
“Celebrating George Walker at 100”
Walker: Sinfonia No. 1
Walker: Violin Sonata No. 1
Gregory Walker, violin
Natalia Kazaryan, piano
Walker: Sinfonia No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
free
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 17 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 18 (11:30 a.m.)
Feb. 19 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Weber: “Oberon” Overture
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B flat major, Hob. I:105
Marissa Regni, violin
David Hardy, cello
Nicholas Stovall, oboe
Sue Heineman, bassoon
Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor
$15-$109
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Philip Setzer, violin
David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
Haydn: Piano Trio in D minor, Hob. XV:23
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”)
Dvořák: Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65
$35 (general admission)
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Feb. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Feb. 20 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins conducting
Jim Beckel: Toccata for Orchestra
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor
Alexi Kinney, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
$25-$110
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Feb. 19 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Adolphus Hailstork: “Essay for Strings”
Dvořák: Serenade in D minor, Op. 44, for winds
Christopher Rouse: “Ku-Ka-Ilimoku”
Arvo Pärt: “Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten”
Sylvie Bodorová: “Bruromano” for guitar, double-bass & strings
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Aaron Clay, double-bass
$45-$70
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result & masks required
(703) 993-2787
http://cfa.gmu.edu

Feb. 20 (8 p.m.)
The Loft at HofGarden, 2818 W. Broad St., Richmond
Classical Revolution RVA:
artists TBA
“Classical Incarnations”
program TBA
donations requested
masks required
(804) 424-3303 (HofGarden)
http://www.classicalrevolutionrva.com/events

Feb. 20 (3 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna
Miró Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5 (“Lark”)
Kevin Puts: “Home”
Ravel: Quartet in F major
$44
proof of vaccination or negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

Feb. 24 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 26 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 27 (3 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
J.S. Bach: “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Villa-Lobos: “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major
Katerina Burton, soprano
$15-$109
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Feb. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Pops
Byron Stripling conducting & trumpet
Carmen Bradford, vocalist
Leo Manzari, tap dancer
“Uptown Nights”
works TBA by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, others
$25-$110
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Feb. 26 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Greater Richmond Children’s Choir ensembles
Crystal Jonkman & Pete Curry directing
program TBA
free
masks required
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events/gellman-concerts

Feb. 26 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 27 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Valentina Peleggi conducting
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
George Li, piano
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
$10-$82
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 26 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
John Mayhood & Shelby Sender, pianos
I-Jen Fang & Brian Smith, percussion
Zachary Wadsworth: “Four Laws” for percussion
Gabriela Lena Frank: “Danza de los Saqsampillos” for 2 marimbas
Stravinsky: “The Rite of Spring” (2 pianos & percussion arrangement)
free
masks required
(434) 924-3052
http://music.virginia.edu/events

Feb. 27 (3:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Series:
Dan Sender, violin
Ayn Balija, viola
Peter Sparr, double-bass
Kelly Peral, oboe
Jiyeon Choi, clarinet
Elizabeth Roberts, bassoon
Prokofiev: Quintet in G minor, Op. 39, for winds & strings
Paganini: Duetto No. 3 for violin and bassoon
$15
masks required
(434) 924-3052
http://music.virginia.edu/events

Feb. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Renée Fleming, soprano
Emerson String Quartet
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Uma Thurman, narrator
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
Philip Glass: “Mad Rush”
Barber: Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
André Previn & Tom Stoppard: “Penelope”
$69
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

March 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein, piano duo
Thomas Adès: “Powder Her Face” Suite
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Busoni: “Fantasia Contrappuntistica”
Ravel: “La Valse”
$35 (general admission)
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

March 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Williamsburg Community Chapel, 3899 John Tyler Highway
Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra
conductor TBA
Kodály: “Dances of Galanta”
Joaquin Turina: “Danzas fantásticas,” Op. 22
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”)
organist TBA
$55 (live attendance); $25 (online stream)
masks recommended
(757) 229-9857
http://williamsburgsymphony.org

March 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
March 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
March 6 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Jacomo Bairos conducting
Kishi Bashi: “Improvisations on EO 9066”
Kishi Bashi, violin
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor
$25-$110
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

March 3 (7 p.m.)
March 4 (8 p.m.)
March 5 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Dvořák: “The Wood-Dove”
Carlos Simon: “Tales – a Folklore Symphony”
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
James Ehnes, violin
$15-$99
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

March 4 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
The Ten Tenors
program TBA
$38-$58
masks required
(757) 594-8752
http://fergusoncenter.org

March 5 (7 p.m.)
Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Washington National Opera
Robert Spano conducting
“Written in Stone”
Jason Moran: “Chantal”
Alicia Hall Moran (Chantal)
Huang Ruo & David Henry Hwang: “The Rift”
Karen Vuong (Maya Lin)
Nina Yoshida Nelsen (Phuong Tran)
Christian Mark Gibbs (Grady Mitchell)
Rod Gilfry (Robert McNamara)
Kamala Sankaram & A.M. Homes: “Rise”
Vanessa Becerra (Alicia Hernández)
J’Nai Bridges (Officer Victoria Wilson)
Daryl Freedman (A Powerful Woman/Adelaide Johnson)
Danielle Talamantes (Maria Hernández)
Suzannah Waddington (The Monument)
Marc Bamuthi Joseph & Carlos Simon: “it all falls down”
J’Nai Bridges (Laurel)
Christian Mark Gibbs (Bklyn)
Alfred Walker (Mtchll)
James Robinson, stage director
in English, English captions
$35-$199
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(804) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

March 6 (4 p.m.)
Seventh Street Christian Church, Grove and Malvern avenues, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Njioma Grevious, violin
Melissa Reardon, viola
Mary Boodell, flute
Charles Overton, harp
Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie in A major, Op. 124, for violin & harp
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola & harp
David Bruce: “The Eye of Night” for flute, viola & harp
Onutė Narbutaitė: “Winterserenade” (after Schubert) for flute, violin & viola
$30
masks required
(804) 304-6312
http://cmscva.org

March 6 (3 p.m.)
Cave Spring United Methodist Church, 4505 Hazel Drive, Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra winds
David Stewart Wiley, piano
Mozart: Quintet in E flat major, K. 452, for piano & winds
Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K. 388, for winds
$32-$49
masks recommended
(540) 343-9127
http://rso.com

March 6 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Martin James Bartlett, piano
Rameau: Suite in A minor – VII. Gavotte et six doubles
François Couperin: “Les Barricades Mystérieuses”
François Couperin: “Le Tic Toc Choc ou Les Maillotins”
Haydn: Sonata in A flat major, Hob. XVI:46
Wagner-Liszt: “Tristan und Isolde” – “Liebestod”
Julian Anderson: “She Hears”
Rachmaninoff-Wild: “Where Beauty Dwells”
Rachmaninoff-Wild: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Rachmaninoff: “Polka de W.R. Ravel – La Valse”
$40
proof of vaccination or recent negative test results, photo ID & masks required
(202) 784-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
http://washingtonperformingarts.org

A number of readers have suggested that, for planning and ticket-purchasing purposes, the monthly calendar include events early in the following month. Good idea, which I’ve put into intermittent practice in recent calendars. From February onward, calendar listings will run through the first week of the following month.

Updated Feb. 4

– The St. Olaf Choir concert scheduled for Feb. 6 at River Road Church, Baptist, has been postponed to a date to be announced later. For information on refunds for tickets already purchased, call the church office at (804) 288-1131 or visit http://rrcb.org

– A Richmond Symphony Chamber Chorus program scheduled for Feb. 6 at St. Christopher’s School has been postponed and will be rescheduled. Details: (804) 788-1212; http://www.richmondsymphony.com

– A concert by viola da gamba player Lisa Terry and harpsichordist Joanne Kong scheduled for Feb. 9 at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center has been postponed until April 13, when it will be staged in UR’s Perkinson Recital Hall, North Court. Details: (804) 289-8980; http://modlin.richmond.edu

– A performance by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra scheduled for Feb. 1 at Washington’s Kennedy Center has been postponed until Jan. 31, 2023. Details: (800) 444-1324; http://kennedy-center.org

Thomas Wilkins, the Norfolk native who served as associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony in the 1990s and currently is music director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, points to Duke Ellington’s orchestral music, including “The River” Suite and “Sacred Concerts,” which he has been conducting with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the past week, as among the long-missed opportunities for US orchestras to speak with an American accent.

“[C]omposers like Mahler or Dvořák or Tchaikovsky didn’t hesitate to write about their own life experiences in the sound world they grew up in,” Wilkins says in an interview with Tom Jacobs for SF Classical Voice. “We hear the Jewishness of Mahler, the Czechness of Dvořák. But for some reason, we are slow to accept anything that approaches ‘Americanism.’ The problem is we rob ourselves of the opportunity of expanding our palate.”

http://www.sfcv.org/articles/artist-spotlight/rapid-testing-thomas-wilkins-navigates-la-phil-down-duke-ellingtons-river

(via http://www.artsjournal.com)

Updated Jan. 16

Thomas Dausgaard, the Danish conductor who has been music director of the Seattle Symphony for 2½ seasons, has quit the post, submitting his resignation in an e-mail to the orchestra’s board president.

“My decision to step away at this moment when we’ve realized such collective artistic success is a result of these pandemic times, which centers the question for us all: [H]ow do we value our lives?” the conductor wrote in a statement included in a news release on his sudden departure, adding that “it is time for me to move on.”

In a Seattle Times article, Krishna Thiagarajan, president and CEO of the orchestra, told Gavin Borchert that “significant problems in travel” during the pandemic had limited Dausgaard’s ability to work with the orchestra. “I don’t know that I expected it, but I’m not sure I was totally surprised,” Thiagarajan said.

Dausgaard, who also is chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, had performed as a guest conductor in Seattle for nine years before his appointment as music director. He had been due to vacate the post at the end of the 2022-23 season, Borchert reports:

http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/thomas-dausgaard-seattle-symphonys-music-director-abruptly-steps-down/

Norman Lebrecht, on his Slipped Disc blog, reports that Dausgaard also has canceled his next engagement with the Scottish orchestra:

https://slippedisc.com/2022/01/headless-in-seattle-as-maestro-quits-by-mail/

Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony board had been at odds for some time, The New York Times Javier C. Hernández reports.

“I felt personally not safe,” the conductor said. “I felt threatened.” He accused the orchestra administration “of repeatedly trying to silence and intimidate him,” Hernández reports, to which Jon Rosen, Seattles board president replied, “There’s no accuracy to any allegations that there was a hostile environment or that he was, in fact, unsafe.”

Douglas McLennan, writing for the Seattle news-cooperative website Post Alley, digs deeper into what one former Seattle Symphony board member describes as “a train wreck.” McLennan writes that Dausgaard’s exit follows many others: “In the past two-plus years, at least 58 employees of the roster of 89 listed in late 2018 programs – including seven of the eight senior management team – have left. The board shows a similar attrition; of 39 board members listed at the end of 2018, 27 have departed.”

The result, McLennan writes, has been a “draining of the orchestra’s human capital from bottom to the top of the institution.”

https://www.postalley.org/2022/01/14/seattle-symphony-debacle-inside-the-sudden-departure-of-thomas-dausgaard/

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. Service fees may be added.

Contact presenters or venues for health-safety protocols.

Jan. 5 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Mario Venzago conducting
Rossini: “William Tell” Overture
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor
Louis Lortie, piano
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rhenish”)
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 7 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Richmond Music Teachers Association members
works TBA by Scriabin, J.S. Bach, Federico Ruiz, others
free
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events/gellman-concerts/

Jan. 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Postclassical Ensemble chorale & orchestra
“Amazing Grace”
spirituals; works TBA by J.S. Bach, William Grant Still, Samuel Barber, Adolphus Hailstork
$45
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 12 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 13 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 14 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rhenish”)
$25-$124
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 12 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Pops
Jack Everly conducting
“Revolution: The Music of The Beatles, a Symphonic Experience”
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 14 (8 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Pops
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
Butcher Brown, guest stars
$15-$85
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 15 (3 p.m.)
Perkinson Arts Center, 11810 Centre St., Chester
Richmond Symphony
Daniel Myssyk conducting
“Celebrate MLK”
program TBA honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
$25
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 15 (7 p.m.)
Calvary Revival Church, 5833 Poplar Hall Drive, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
conductor TBA
“A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
program TBA
free
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 19 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 20 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 21 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major
$15-$109
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Arts Center, 11810 Centre St., Chester
Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Ryan Recital Hall, St. Christopher’s School, 711 St. Christopher Road, Richmond
Jan. 22 (3 p.m.)
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 205 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Valentina Peleggi conducting
Christopher Theofanidis: “Visions and Miracles”
Marian Bauer: Symphonic Suite for strings
Steven Snowden: “This Mortal Frame”
Schuyler Slack, cello
Bartók: Divertimento for strings
$25
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Jan. 22 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins conducting
Peter Boyer: “Silver Fanfare”
William Dawson: “Negro Symphony”
Victor Wooten: “La Lección Tres”
Victor Wooten, electric bass
$25-$114
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 21 (4 p.m.)
All Saints Episcopal Church, 8787 River Road, Richmond
Daniel Stipe, piano
program TBA
free
(804) 288-7811
http://allsaintsrichmond.org

Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Kronos Quartet
Nikky Finney, narrator
Valérie Sainte-Agathe conducting
Michael Abels & Nikky Finney: “At War with Ourselves”
$35
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Jan. 21 (7 & 9 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Washington National Opera American Opera Initiative
Evan Rogister conducting
B.E. Boykin & Jarrod Lee: “Oshun” (premiere)
Jens Ibsen & Cecelia Raker: “Bobbie and the Demon” (premiere)
Silen Wellington & Walken Schweigert: “What the Spirits Show” (premiere)
casts TBA
$19-$45
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 21 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
James Conlon conducting
Verdi: Requiem
Michelle Bradley, soprano
Yuliana Matochkina, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Morris Robinson, bass
The Washington Chorus
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Janáček: Sonata (“1.X.1905”)
Alexander Vustin: “Lamento”
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat major, Op. 110
Dvořák: “Poetic Tone Pictures,” Op. 85
$60-$90
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
http://washingtonperformingarts.org

Jan. 24 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 25 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
conductor TBA
Ben Rector & Cody Fry, guest stars
$29-$139
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Jaime Laredo & Bella Hristova, violins
Nokuthula Ngwenyama & Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violas
Keith Robinson & Sharon Laredo Robinson, cellos
Nokuthula Ngwenyama: “Sexagesimal Celebration”
Brahms: String Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18
Brahms: String Sextet in G major, Op. 36
$45
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 26 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Matt Worth, baritone
Alex Katsman, piano
Schubert: “Winterreise”
free
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Jan. 26 (8 p.m.)
Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Renée Fleming VOICES:
Juan Diego Flórez, tenor
Vincenzo Scalera, pianist
program TBA
$69-$149
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 27 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Jan. 29 (2:30 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 E. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Gregory Spears & Greg Pierce: “Fellow Travelers”
Joseph Lattanzi (Hawkins Fuller)
Andres Acosta (Timothy Laughlin)
Katherine Pracht (Mary Johnson)
Katrina Thurman (Miss Lightfoot)
Joshua Jeremiah (Sen. Joseph McCarthy/Estonian Frank/Interrogator)
John Fulton (Sen. Charles Potter/General Arlie/Bartender)
Kaileigh Riess (Lucy)
Kyle White (Tommy McIntyre)
Jeremy Harr (Sen. Potter’s Assistant/Bookseller/Technician/French Priest/Party Guest)
Kevin Newbury, stage director
in English, English captions
$20-$110
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org

Jan. 27 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 28 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Steven Reineke conducting
Ne-Yo, guest star
$34-$114
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 27 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen conducting
“Off the Cuff”
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 28 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Quatuor Cent Cordes
program TBA
free
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events/gellman-concerts/

Jan. 28 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 29 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Valentina Peleggi conducting
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Anna Clyne: “DANCE”
Inbal Segev, cello
Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade”
$15-$85
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 28 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Chopin: 2 nocturnes, Op. 27
Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35
Franck: Prélude, Aria et Final, Op. 23
Ravel: “Le tombeau de Couperin”
$60-$90
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
http://washingtonperformingarts.org

Jan. 29 (3:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Series:
Jiyeon Choi, clarinet
program TBA
$15
(434) 924-3376
http://music.virginia.edu/events

Jan. 29 (4 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Silk Road Ensemble:
Pura Fé, lap-steel slide guitar & vocals
Haruka Fujii, percussion
Maeve Gilchrist, Celtic harp & vocals
Wu Man, pipa
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Mazz Swift, violin & vocals
“Uplifted Voices”
program TBA
$33-$55
(703) 993-2787
http://cfa.gmu.edu

Jan. 29 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Kennedy Center Chamber Players:
Heather LeDoux Green, violin
Daniel Foster, viola
David Hardy, cello
Lin Ma, clarinet
Lambert Orkis, piano
Bruch: “8 Pieces,” Op. 83, for clarinet, viola & piano (excerpts)
Sebastian Currier: “Ghost Trio” for violin, cello, and piano
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”)
$49
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 29 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen conducting
Britten: “Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’ ”
Florence Beatrice Price: Piano Concerto in one movement
Michelle Cann, piano
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 30 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Sō Percussion
Caroline Shaw, composer & vocalist
Angélica Negrón: “gone”
Negrón: “go back”
Julia Wolfe: “Forbidden Love”
Shaw: “Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part”
$50
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 31 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
Tito Muñoz & Eugene Rogers conducting
EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble
Aundi Marie Moore, soprano
members of The Washington Chorus
Carlos Simon: “Motherboxx Connection”
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for orchestra
Valerie Coleman: “Seven O’Clock Shout”
Michael Abels: “Delights and Dances”
Carolos Cordero & Julie Flanders: “Holding Our Breath”
trad.: “Fix Me, Jesus” (Augustus Hill arrangement)
Joel Thompson: “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
John Legend: “Selma” – “Glory” (Eugene Rogers arrangement)
$20-$50
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Richard Becker, piano
Becker: “Nine Inventions for the Muses”
works TBA by Ravel, Albéniz, Chopin
poetry readings from Becker’s “Fates,” “On Sunday Afternoons,” “Scylla”
free
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
First Baptist Church, Monument Avenue at Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Chorus
Valentina Peleggi directing
program TBA
$25
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Williamsburg Community Chapel, 3899 John Tyler Highway
Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman conducting
Michael Abels: “Global Warming”
Xavier Foley: “For Justice and Peace”
Bottesini: “Gran Duo concertante”
Xavier Foley, double-bass
Eunice Kim, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
$60
(757) 229-9857
http://williamsburgsymphony.org

Feb. 2 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 4 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan conducting
Mozart: “Idomeneo” – ballet music
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Beatrice Rana, piano
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
$15-$109
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Opera Lafayette
Patrick Dupré-Quigley conducting
Gwendoline Blondeel & Hannah De Priest, sopranos
Sarah Mesko, mezzo-soprano
Patrick Kilbride, tenor
Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone
Pergolesi: “La Servante Maîtresse”
Nick Olcott, stage direction
Pergolesi: “Stabat Mater”
$90-$135
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 2 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Kwamé Ryan conducting
John Luther Adams: “Become Ocean”
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Pablo Ferrández, cello
$35-$90
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Feb. 3 (7 p.m.)
Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Cramer String Quartet
James Wilson, cello
“La Vida Notturna”
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet in G major (“Fandango”)
Brian Nabors: “Soul Bop”
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga: Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
Boccherini: String Quintet in C major (“La musica notturno della strade di Madrid”)
Boccherini: String Quintet in E major – Minuetto
$30
(804) 304-6312
http://cmscva.org

Feb. 3 (8 p.m.)
The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan conducting
Mozart: “Idomeneo” – ballet music
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor
$25-$40
(202) 888-0020
http://theanthemdc.com

Feb. 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Rachmaninoff: “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”
Claire Huangci, piano
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor
$19-$99
(877) 276-1444
http://strathmore.org

Feb. 4 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Cramer Quartet
works TBA by Haydn, contemporary composers
free
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events/gellman-concerts/

Feb. 4 (8 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony Pops
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
“Classic Hollywood Love Songs”
songs TBA from “West Side Story,” “Ben Hur,” “Dr. Zhivago,” “Titantic,” other films
$15-$85
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://richmondsymphony.com

Feb. 4 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 5 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Gregory Spears & Greg Pierce: “Fellow Travelers”
Joseph Lattanzi (Hawkins Fuller)
Andres Acosta (Timothy Laughlin)
Katherine Pracht (Mary Johnson)
Katrina Thurman (Miss Lightfoot)
Joshua Jeremiah (Sen. Joseph McCarthy/Estonian Frank/Interrogator)
John Fulton (Sen. Charles Potter/General Arlie/Bartender)
Kaileigh Riess (Lucy)
Kyle White (Tommy McIntyre)
Jeremy Harr (Sen. Potter’s Assistant/Bookseller/Technician/French Priest/Party Guest)
Kevin Newbury, stage director
in English, English captions
$45-$115
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org

Feb. 5 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Gloria Chien, piano
Telemann: Fantasias for solo clarinet
Jessie Montgomery: “Peace”
Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1
Deng Yu-Hsien: “Pining for the Spring Breeze” (Stephen Hough arrangement)
James Lee III: “Ad Anah?”
Weber: “Grand Duo Concertant”
$35
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Feb. 5 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Washington Performing Arts Gospel Choirs
Michele Fowlin & Theodore Thorpe III directing
Choral Arts Society of Washington
Jace Kaholokula Saplan directing
“Living the Dream . . . Singing the Dream”
program TBA, in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
$25-$75
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
http://washingtonperformingarts.org

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.

Primary Covid-19 safety protocols are listed for each event. Contact presenters or venues for detailed requirements.

Jan. 9 (3 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Rous conducting
family concert:
“The Mozart Experience”
program TBA
activities in lobby, 2 p.m.
$12-$22
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 9 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
David Portillo, tenor
Craig Terry, piano
works TBA by Barber, Britten, Ginastera, Carlos Guastavino
$50
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 13 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 15 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 16 (3 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major
George Walker: Sinfonia No. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
$15-$109
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Kellen Gray conducting
Undine Smith Moore: “Scenes from the Life of a Martyr”
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
Norfolk State University Concert Choir
$25-$110
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 15 (11 a.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
Amaryn Olmeda, violin
“Dreams of Freedom: ‘My Hero, Martin’ ” by Morgan Avery McCoy, Inc.
$10
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 15 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Naho Bessho, piano
works TBA by Grieg, Schubert, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
free
masks required
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events

Jan. 16 (8 p.m.)
The Loft at the HofGarden, 2818 W. Broad St.
Classical Revolution RVA:
artists TBA
“Classical Incarnations”
program TBA
donation requested
masks required
(804) 424-3303 (HofGarden)
http://www.classicalrevolutionrva.com/events

Jan. 16 (7 p.m.)
Second Calvary Baptist Church, 2940 Corprew Ave., Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Kellen Gray conducting
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone
“A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
free
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Rossini: “The Barber of Seville” Overture
Debussy: Rhapsodie for alto saxophone and orchestra
Courtney Bryan: “Carmen, Jazz Suite on Themes by Bizet”
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Ibert: “Concertino da Camera”
Turina: “La oración del terrero”
$40
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Jan. 20 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 21 (11:30 a.m.)
Jan. 22 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Beethoven: “Leonore” Overture No. 3
William Grant Still: Symphony No. 4 (“Autochthonous”)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
$15-$109
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 20 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Rossini: “The Barber of Seville” Overture
Debussy: Rhapsodie for alto saxophone and orchestra
Courtney Bryan: “Carmen, Jazz Suite on Themes by Bizet”
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Ibert: “Concertino da Camera”
Turina: “La oración del terrero”
$44-$98
proof of vaccination or negative test result & masks required
(301) 581-5100
http://strathmore.org

Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Perkinson Arts Center, 11810 Centre St., Chester
Richmond Symphony
Emanuele Andrizzi conducting
C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor
Mary Boodell, flute
Stacy Garrop: “Spectacle of Light”
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rhenish”)
$22.50
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Grove Avenue at Three Chopt Road, Richmond
Richmond chapter, American Guild of Organists Repertoire Recital Series:
Dexter Kennedy, organ
Franck: Choral No. 1 in E major
Franck: Fantaisie in A major
Franck: Pièce héroïque in B minor
Franck: Choral No. 2 in B minor
Franck: Cantabile in B major
Franck: Choral No. 3 in A minor
donation requested
masks required
(804) 288-2867
http://richmondago.org

Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Orchestra Pops
conductor TBA
Teri Hansen, Ali Ewolt & Nathaniel Stampley, guest stars
“Golden Age of Broadway”
$25-$81
masks required
(757) 892-6366
http://virginiasymphony.org

Jan. 23 (3 p.m.)
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 205 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Emanuele Andrizzi conducting
C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor
Mary Boodell, flute
Stacy Garrop: “Spectacle of Light”
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Rhenish”)
$22
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 23 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Paul Hanson, piano & speaker
lecture-recital on Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 1
free; ticket registration required
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Jan. 23 (3 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5
Francisco Tárrega: “Recuerdos de la Alhambra”
Leo Brouwer: “El Decameron Negro”
Tárrega: “Capricho Arabe”
Albéniz-Segovia: “Asturias”
Antonio Lauro: Waltz No. 3 (“Natalia”)
Gentil Montaña: “Suite Colombiana” No. 2 – “Porro”
Augustín Barrios: “La Catedral”
Barrios: “Julia Florida”
Barrios: Waltz No. 3
Barrios: Waltz No. 4
$44
proof of vaccination or negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(703) 255-1868
http://wolftrap.org

Jan. 23 (7 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Jeffrey Siegel, piano & speaker
“Keyboard Conversations: Fantastic Fantasies”
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Fantasy in B minor, Op. 11, No. 1
Mendelssohn: “The Last Rose of Summer”
works TBA by J.S. Bach, Mozart
$29-$48
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result & masks required
(703) 993-2787
http://cfa.gmu.edu

Jan. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Series:
Jaime Laredo & Cathy Meng, violins
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Sharon Robinson & Keith Robinson, cellos
Erwin Schulhoff: Duo for violin and cello
Richard Danielpour: “A Shattered Vessel”
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
$45
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 27 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 28 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conducting
Beethoven: “The Consecration of the House” Overture
George Walker: Sinfonia No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”)
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Isaacha Savage, tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone
The Washington Chorus
$15-$109
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Jan. 28 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 29 (7:30 p.m.)
Jan. 30 (2:30 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 E. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: “Three Decembers”
Karen Ziemba (Madeline Mitchell)
Cecilia Violetta López (Beatrice Mitchell)
Efraín Solís (Charlie Mitchell)
Lawrence Edelson, stage director
in English, English captions
$15-$85
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org

Jan. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg
Danish String Quartet
program TBA
$25-$55
masks required
(540) 231-5300
http://artscenter.vt.edu

Jan. 29 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Donovan Williams, violin & composer
Hope Armstrong Erb, piano
works TBA by Copland, Williams, Florence Price, James Erb, John Winn
free
masks required
(804) 646-7223
http://rvalibrary.org/events

Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 30 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Valentina Peleggi conducting
Roxanna Panufnik: “Alma’s Songs without Words”
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
$10-$82
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com

Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Royal Philharmonic
Vasily Petrenko conducting
Britten: “Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’ ”
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Kian Soltani, cello
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
$45-$75
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result & masks required
(703) 993-2787
http://cfa.gmu.edu

Jan. 30 (3:30 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Series:
artists TBA
program TBA
$15
masks required
(434) 924-3376
http://music.virginia.edu/events

Jan. 30 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Washington Performing Arts Gospel Choirs
Michele Fowlin & Theodore Thorpe III directing
Choral Arts Society of Washington
Scott Tucker directing
“Living the Dream . . . Singing the Dream”
program TBA
$25-$75
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(202) 784-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
http://washingtonperformingarts.org

Jan. 31 (7:30 p.m.)
Kaufman Theater, Chrysler Museum of Art, 1 Memorial Place, Norfolk
Feldman Chamber Music Society:
Escher Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in C major, K. 465 (“Dissonance”)
Bartók: Quartet No. 3
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
$25 (seating limited)
masks required
(757) 552-1630
http://feldmanchambermusic.org

Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St.
Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg:
Escher Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in C major, K. 465 (“Dissonance”)
Bartók: Quartet No. 3
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
$25 (waiting list)
masks required
(757) 741-3300 (Williamsburg Regional Library)
http://chambermusicwilliamsburg.org

Feb. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Will Liverman, baritone
Myra Huang, piano
Ravel: “Don Quichotte a Dulcinée”
works TBA by Richard Strauss, Howard Swanson
$50
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 1 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
Tito Muñoz conducting
Exigence Vocal Ensemble
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
members of The Washington Chorus
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade for orchestra
Valerie Colman: “Seven O’Clock Shout”
Michael Abels: “Delights and Dances”
trad.-Augustus Hill: “Fix Me, Jesus”
Carlos Cordero: “Holding Our Breath”
Joel Thompson: “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
John Legend-Eugene Rogers: “Selma” – “Glory”
$20-$50
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Richard Becker, piano & speaker
works TBA by Liszt, Albéniz, Chopin
readings of poems from Becker’s “On Sunday Afternoon”
free; ticket registration required
masks required
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu

Feb. 3 (7 p.m.)
Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New conducting
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto
Jennifer Koh, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
$15-$109
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 444-1324
http://kennedy-center.org

Feb. 4 (8 p.m.)
Capital One Hall, 7750 Capital One Tower Road, Tysons
National Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New conducting
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto
Jennifer Koh, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
$29-$69
proof of vaccination, photo ID & masks required
(800) 653-8000 (Ticketmaster)
http://capitalonehall.com/events

Feb. 5 (8 p.m.)
Feb. 6 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: “Three Decembers”
Karen Ziemba (Madeline Mitchell)
Cecilia Violetta López (Beatrice Mitchell)
Efraín Solís (Charlie Mitchell)
Lawrence Edelson, stage director
in English, English captions
$45-$115
proof of vaccination or recent negative test result, photo ID & masks required
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org