Concert
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Library of Congress offers a rare concert with three Broadway composers
It’s not every day you get to hear from three of today’s leading Broadway composers performing their own work. “They’re also bringing people to perform...
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Jammin Java’s 11th annual Mid-Atlantic Band Battle
Four bands have advanced from preliminaries to compete in Jammin Java’s 11th annual Mid-Atlantic Band Battle, a contest for bands from all genres of music and...
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Jackson Browne goes acoustic in Baltimore this Saturday
With hit songs from 30 and 40 years ago, including “Rock Me on the Water,” “The Pretender,” “Late for the Sky” and “Somebody’s Baby,” Jackson...
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Unrepentant: Tori Amos at DAR on Saturday
In her 22-year music career, the Maryland-reared Tori Amos has never scored a U.S. Top 40 hit. Yet she has persevered as a largely independent...
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Diana Krall returns to Strathmore
Krall has made her mark as one of the most successful jazz artists ever
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Arcade Fire continues its tour with a stop at D.C.’s Verizon Center
Led by the singing husband and wife team of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, Montreal’s seven-piece rock band Arcade Fire has long been celebrated by...
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Darius Rucker headlining WMZQ Fall Fest 2014
First he was leader of the ’90s rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. Then a decade ago he set out to become Darius Rucker, the...
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Star Attraction: Laura Benanti’s ties to GMCW extend beyond song and dance
Laura Benanti remembers having a slight existential crisis as a kid. “What is this world that I live in? What is this horrible place where...
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Ciao Bello
For his swansong to the DC Different Drummers -- and to D.C. -- Joe Bello has put together a concert focused on dance. ''No, I...
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The Passion of the Chorus
''There's no art form that stirs up passion in your heart like music,'' says Jeff Buhrman of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington. ''You can...
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Marvin's Room
''It was very heartbreaking for our whole company.'' Marissa McGowan is recalling the 2012 death of storied American composer Marvin Hamlisch. ''He meant so much...
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Gay Garlands
The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington will sing an ode to garland this weekend -- and we're not just talking about gay icon Judy. Yes,...
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Lasting Legacy
Already this fall there have been several local performances of Verdi's Requiem. The beloved masterwork, as Scott Tucker puts it, ''is often presented kind of...
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Organ Transplant
''An organ in a concert hall has to have balls,'' says organ consultant Jeff Weiler. ''And the old organ was just whistling Dixie.'' The Kennedy...
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Strike a Pose, Not a Chord
Nobody wants to see a 54-year-old stripper. You might think Madonna didn't get that memo based on her performance in her latest road show, ''The...
