Tag: National Symphony Orchestra
Mahler’s Ninth with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center
If you choose to let it, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 can scare you to death. Or you can let its vast scope and...
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra at...
Not just any conservatory or university school of music can mount a concert featuring Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. It may not have familiar...
Nibbles and Sips: ‘Christmas Thrills And Chills For Every Theatregoer’
One of the best ways I know of to get excited about the Christmas season is to get thyself (and thy family) to the...
NSO Pops: An Evening with Sutton Foster at The Kennedy Center
NSO Pops Electrifies with An Evening With Sutton Foster at The Kennedy Center
When two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster takes the stage, anything goes, and...
DC Area Soprano Danielle Talamantes On Her CD Signing on Sunday...
Rising local soprano Danielle Talamantes talks about the Met, concert music, and the opera singer’s life
Politicians and lobbyists running to catch the Acela at...
National Symphony Orchestra: David Zinman, conductor: Angela Hewitt, piano, plays Mozart’s...
Last night, the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman with a solo performance by the famed Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, delved into the...
National Symphony Orchestra Eighty-Fourth Season Opening Ball Concert at The Kennedy...
Last night the National Symphony Orchestra debuted its eighty-forth season in The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, one of the most anticipated musical events of...
Wolf Trap Opera’s ‘Carmen’ With The National Symphony Orchestra
Wolf Trap Opera’s production of George Bizet’s Carmen started as a flurry of lightning bugs and lit up phones last evening. Wolf Trap revealed...
‘A Live Presentation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’ With the National...
After a week of cramped and un air conditioned Fringey-ness, it was a pleasure to step into the cavernous Filene Center at Wolf Trap...
Matthew Morrison With Special Guest Laura Benanti and The NSO at...
Undeterred by Thursday night’s rainstorm, it was a slightly soggy yet enthusiastic crowd that turned out for Matthew Morrison in concert with the National...
Capital Fringe 2013 Show Update: Life After “In Search of the...
Capital Fringe ’14 opens in a month, but in spite of my best intentions, I won’t be taking to the stage this time around....
The Midtown Men with NSO Pops at The Kennedy Center
“Oh, What a Night!”
There’s something special that happens when you bring together four supremely talented men on a single stage, couple them with one...
Ben Folds and The National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap
Ben Folds Rocks the Suburbs with the NSO at Wolf Trap
Ben Folds grew up playing drums and was always inspired by the orchestra. ...
National Symphony Orchestra: NEW MOVES: symphony + dance: Thomas Wilkins, conductor;...
Last night was the first performance of the final program of The Kennedy Center’s NEW MOVES: symphony + dance festival, a two-week celebration of...
National Chamber Ensemble: ‘Mother’s Day Concert: American Classics’ at Spectrum Theatre...
The National Chamber Ensemble finished its 2013-2014 season (the biggest season in its history) in grand style with a concert that included classical favorites,...
The National Symphony Orchestra: ‘New Moves Symphony + Dance: From Schuman...
New Moves: symphony + dance delights both dance fans and music aficionados.
Give a MacArthur “Genius” award to the person who came up with the idea...
National Symphony Orchestra: Kristjan Järvi, Conductor and Jennifer Koh, Violin, Plays...
The National Symphony Orchestra continues it’s eighty-third season at The Kennedy Center with a splendid evening of twentieth-century compositions as talented guest conductor Kristjan...
National Symphony Orchestra: ‘Celebrating Wagner at 200: Act III of Parsifal,...
In continuing to celebrate the bicentenary of German composer Richard Wagner, the National Symphony Orchestra, under the exceptional baton of Christoph Eschenbach, presents Act...
‘National Symphony Orchestra Season Opening Ball Concert’ featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Christoph...
The eighty-third season of the National Symphony Orchestra kicked off with a bang on Sunday evening with a glamorous concert full of pomp and...
NSO Pops: Wayne Shorter 80th Birthday Celebration with the Wayne Shorter...
Wayne Shorter, his Quartet, and vocalist Esperanza Spalding appeared last night in another sold-out concert at The Kennedy Center. There was a new work...