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  • Classical Music: Fall Arts Preview 2014

    By on September 11, 2014

    Whether your predilection is opera or chorale, piano or violin, quartet or orchestra — any or all — Washington offers the classical music lover a...

  • Classical Music: Symphonies, Operas and Choral in D.C.

    By on September 12, 2013

    The region's fall classical music season doesn't start in earnest until after the leaves begin to turn. And then in no time it's holiday season,...

  • The Bach Sinfonia presents Zelenka

    By on May 2, 2012

    Ever hear of Jan Dismas Zelenka? Well, the Bach Sinfonia calls Zelenka “the Bohemian Baroque,” and says his rich and colorful output equals that of...

  • American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at NOVA

    By on November 2, 2011

    Daniel Spalding leads an orchestra consisting of students aspiring to become classical professionals, along with guest artist pianist Jeffrey Jacob in an “Orchestral Brilliance” program...

  • The Washington Chorus: Elena Ruehr

    By on April 3, 2011

    Julian Wachner directs The Washington Chorus in its third annual New Music for a New Age concert. This year’s featured composer is Elena Ruehr, known...

  • Classical Music

    By on March 17, 2011

    ARTISPHERE 1101 Wilson Blvd.Arlington, Va.703-875-1100artisphere.com UrbanArias Festival -- Three new short operas, including Ricky Ian Gordon's retelling of Orpheus and Euridice, Gordon's Green Sneakers, a...

  • Music: Classical and Opera

    By on September 16, 2010

    ARTISPHERE 1101 Wilson Blvd.Arlington, VA.703-875-1100artisphere.com Aurora Opera Theater — The Secret Marriage (10/15-23, Spectrum Theatre) National Chamber Ensemble — NCE celebrates the bicentennial of Chopin...

  • Classical Music

    By on March 11, 2010

    BACH SINFONIA Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center Montgomery College Georgia Avenue and East-West Highway Silver Spring 301-362-6525 bachsinfonia.org The Art of Lute/The Art of...

  • Classical Music: Symphonies, Operas, and other Concerts

    By on September 16, 2009

    BACH SINFONIA Evelyn Glennie: Music Center at Strathmore Takoma Park/Silver Spring Performing Arts Center Montgomery CollegeGeorgia Avenue and East-West HighwaySilver Spring301-362-6525www.bachsinfonia.org The Story of the...

  • Classical Gas

    By on August 26, 2009

    Did you know Sandra Bernhard is a ''classically trained singer?'' We didn't either, but it says so right there in the press release for her...

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    The Diva Next Door

    By on April 25, 2007

    Opera is like beets -- people love it or hate it. But regardless of one's taste for opera, Patricia Racette is one to watch --...

  • Note for Note

    By on July 20, 2005

    A word of advice to those planning to attend a concert conducted by Emil de Cou: Remain in your seats. No autopilot standing ovations, please....

  • Orchestral Maneuvers

    By on February 26, 2003

    If anyone can get away with a techno remix of such revered American orchestral music as Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, it's Jonathan Sheffer. ''I don't...