Musicians' pay cut in Baltimore

Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony have agreed to $900,000 in concessions, on top of $1 million in reduced pay, benefits and working days agreed to in April, as the orchestra struggles with reduced revenues and contributions and faces an as yet undetermined deficit, Tim Smith reports in the Baltimore Sun:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bal-bso-musicians-agree-to-more-concessions-0730,0,7328503.story

Michael Steinberg (1928-2009)

Michael Steinberg, the musicologist, lecturer and program annotator for the San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic and other orchestras, has died of cancer at the age of 80.

Steinberg adapted his program notes into three definitive guides to classical music, "The Symphony," "The Concerto" and "Choral Masterworks."

His obituary in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/arts/music/29steinberg.html?_r=1&ref=music

'Pastoral' with extra tweets

The National Symphony's associate conductor, Emil de Cou, has prepared "real-time" program notes on Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") that will be sent via the Twitter messaging platform to patrons of a July 30 concert at Wolf Trap, Tim Smith reports on his Baltimore Sun blog:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2009/07/national_symphony_to_introduce.html

So much for "please turn off all electronic devices."

UPDATE: The Washington Post's Anne Midgette weighs the pros and cons of technological add-ons in the classical concert experience:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903067.html?hpid=topnews

N.C. Symphony cuts season, salaries

The North Carolina Symphony, which ended the season $4 million in debt, has cut its musicians' contracted working year from 43 to 37 weeks plus one week of unpaid furlough, which will reduce players' incomes by 17 percent in the coming season.

Grant Llewellyn, the orchestra's music director, will take a 10 percent salary cut, and its president and CEO, David Chambliss Worters, will take a 30 percent salary cut. The orchestra already had canceled engagements of some guest soloists and conductors, reduced its concert and touring schedule and eliminated programming requiring extra musicians.

The orchestra's operating budget is being cut from $14.1 million in 2008-09 to $11.9 million in 2009-10, Rob Christensen reports in The News & Observer of Raleigh:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1606526.html

New York Times selling WQXR

The New York Times has agreed to the sale of WQXR, the classical-music radio station it has owned since 1944, in a deal with New York public-radio station WNYC and the broadcasting firm Univision.

WQXR will become a listener-supported station with a narrower broadcast radius; its webcasts (via http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/air/listen/index.html) will not be affected by the deal, expected to go through late this year, The Times reports:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/music/15radio.html?_r=1&ref=music

Castleton Festival returns in 2010

Conductor Lorin Maazel has announced a second season of the Castleton Festival at Maazel's Castleton Farms in Rappahannock County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwestern Virginia.

The second season, which will run from July 2-18, 2010, will present two new chamber-opera productions and a revival of one of the four Britten operas being staged this summer. Programming will be announced later.

In the current economic downturn, "we should have been deterred, but we weren’t," Maazel said in a prepared statement. Castleton events "have been packed all the way through the festival, and we look towards the future with confidence knowing that there are people out there who appreciate what we’re doing and that love us and as much as we love them," he added.

For details on the current Castleton Festival, running through July 19, visit www.castletonfestival.org

Music to 'keep people moving'

The Lynchburg Public Library has installed a sound system that pipes baroque music, swing tunes and opera into its parking lot, joining "a growing number of communities worldwide using music to discourage loitering and prevent crime," Alicia Petska reports in The News & Advance:

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/lynchburg_public_library_pumps_music_into_parking_lot_for_security/17551/

Petska quotes the director of the southern Virginia city's library system: "We’re trying to create an overall more pleasant environment for all users. And to keep people moving."

Castleton Festival opens

The reviews are in for the opening of the Castleton Festival, a production of Britten's "The Turn of the Screw."

The festival, staged by conducted Lorin Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, at Castleton Farms, their estate in Rappahannock County, continues through July 19 with productions of Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" and "Albert Herring" and the composer's adaptation of "The Beggar's Opera" in the 131-seat Theatre House (a converted hatchery building), as well as two outdoor orchestra concerts and other events on the farm and at satellite locations. (For details, see the July calendar.)

My introduction to the Castleton Festival, with comments from Lorin Maazel, in print in Style Weekly, online at:

http://www.styleweekly.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=92CBF6163B1A49EDA35EE49A248BA3C9&AudID=C3A7C1EDE4E54E24AF4637F9AAFFD1B6

Here's Anne Midgette's review of "The Turn of the Screw" in The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/05/AR2009070502601.html

Tim Smith's review and take-you-there in the Baltimore Sun:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/classicalmusic/2009/07/castleton_festival_on_lorin_ma.html#more

Charles T. Downey's review, posted on Ionarts:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/07/summer-at-opera-castleton-festival-1.html

Symphony Chorus auditions

The Richmond Symphony Chorus, directed by Erin Freeman, will hold auditions for the 2009-10 season from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Aug. 18. The deadline for applications is July 10.

In the coming season, the Symphony Chorus will perform in Orff's "Carmina Burana," Handel's "Messiah," the "Let It Snow!" holiday pops concert, Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances" and Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen" and "Nänie."

The chorus rehearses from 7:30-10 p.m. Tuesdays at Grace Baptist Church, 4200 Dover Road in Windsor Farms.

For an application and more information, call (804) 788-4717, Ext. 109, or visit www.richmondsymphony.com

Theater of the perverse

Writing for The Guardian, Geoffrey Wheatcroft surveys the twisted world of Regieoper ("director's opera"), in which "there is no stage direction however simple, or musical sense however clear, that some director somewhere can't ignore it," and offers examples of directors' abuses ranging from the laughable to the barf-inducing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/01/falstaff-opera-regieoper

Wheatcroft, alas, is an aging Brit, a perfect foil for the kind of director who likes to confront or confound the opera audience.

Children's choir auditions

The Greater Richmond Children's Choir, directed by Hope Armstrong Erb, will hold auditions for the 2009-2010 season on July 15 and August 10. The choir's ensembles are open to boys and girls aged 8-18. Auditions will be held at Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 8 N. Laurel St., next to Richmond's Landmark Theater. To schedule an audition, call (804) 201-1894.

July 2009 calendar

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 single-ticket prices are listed; senior, student, group and other discounts may be offered.

SCOUTING REPORT

* In Richmond: Other than concerts by the Virginia Commonwealth University-Richmond Symphony Orchestra Project on July 3 and the VCU Community Guitar Ensemble’s July 26 finale in VCU’s Guitar & Other Strings festival, Richmond’s classical scene is on summer break.

* New and/or different: The Wintergreen Festival presents cellist Tanya Anisimova in a new sonata and three improvisations on "Appalachia," July 10-11, and the premiere of Peter Coy’s adaptation of Stravinsky’s "The Soldier’s Tale" as "An American Civil War Fable," July 16-17, at the Nelson County resort. . . . In a Shenandoah Valley Music Festival program, Grant Cooper conducts the Fairfax Symphony with mime artist Dan Kamin in "Charlie Chaplin at the Symphony," including screenings of "Easy Street" and "The Immigrant," July 24 at the Pavilion of the Orkney Springs Hotel. . . . Adam DeGraff, the onetime Richmond Symphony violinist, and pianist Lynn Wright bring their "Pianafiddle" mix of classics, folk music and jazz to Wintergreen on July 29.

* Star turns: Lorin Maazel conducts Britten’s "The Turn of the Screw," "The Rape of Lucretia" and "Albert Herring," the composer’s arrangement of "The Beggar’s Opera," and orchestral concerts with violinist Glenn Dicterow and cellist Ha Nan Chang in his Castleton Festival, July 3-19 at Castleton Farms in Rappahannock County. . . . Violinist Sarah Chang joins the National Symphony in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, July 30 at Wolf Trap.

* My picks: The Garth Newel Piano Quartet, with National Symphony concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef, open the summer chamber-music series on July 3 at Garth Newel Music Center near Hot Springs. . . . Maazel’s Castleton Festival Opera in Britten’s "The Turn of the Screw," July 3-5 in Castleton Farms’ Theatre House. . . . Maazel conducting the Castleton Festival Orchestra, with New York Philharmonic concertmadter Glenn Dichterow, in a program of Mozart, Bruch and Beethoven, July 11 at Castleton Farms’ Festival Tent. . . . Emil de Cou conducting the National Symphony, Washington Chorus and soloists in Orff’s "Carmina Burana," July 23 at Wolf Trap.


July 3 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Orchestra Project youth orchestra
Erin Freeman conducting
Works by Schubert, Shostakovich, Rossini, others
Free
(804) 788-1212
www.richmondsymphony.com

July 3 (8 p.m.)
July 5 (2 p.m.)
July 11 (8 p.m.)
July 12 (2 p.m.)
July 18 (8 p.m.)
The Paramount, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Ash Lawn Opera
Braden Toan conducting
Lerner & Loewe: "Camelot"
Cast TBA
Patrick Hansen, stage direction
$30-$35
(434) 979-1333 (The Paramount)
www.ashlawnopera.org

July 3 (5 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Nurit Bar-Josef, violin
Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 64, No. 6
Mendelssohn: Quartet in D major, Op. 44, No. 1
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
$22
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 3 (7 p.m.)
July 4 (5 p.m.)
July 5 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Opera
Lorin Maazel conducting
Britten: "The Turn of the Screw"
Brian Z. Porter (Prologue)
Charlotte Dobbs (Governess)
Rachel Calloway (Mrs. Grose)
Steven Ebel (Peter Quint)
Greta Ball (Miss Jessel)
Harry Risoleo (Miles)
Kirby Anne Hall (Flora)
William Kerley, stage direction
in English
$80
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 4 (8 p.m.)
West Lawn, U.S. Capitol, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Erich Kunzel conducting
Jimmy Smits, Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin, Michael Feinstein, Natasha Bedingfield, Andrew von Oeyen, guest stars
Choral Arts Society of Washington
"A Capitol Fourth," program TBA
Free
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

July 5 (7 p.m.)
July 12 (7 p.m.)
July 16 (7 p.m.)
July 18 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Opera
Lorin Maazel conducting
Gay & Pepusch/Britten: "The Beggar’s Opera"
Michael Rice (Peachum)
Melissa Parks (Mrs. Peachum)
Julia Harding (Polly)
Dominic Armstrong (MacHeath)
Darren Perry (Lockit)
Sarah Moule (Lucy)
Donald Groves (Fitch)
Sarah Simmons (Mrs. Trapes)
William Kerley, stage direction
in English
$50-$80
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Christopher Pulgram, Kenn Wagner, Melissa Polesky & Jana Vander Schaaf Ross, violins
Steve Larson & Joseph J. Nigro, violas
Wesley Baldwin & Sarah Kapps, cellos
Virginia Consort Appalachian Singers
Caroline Worra, soprano
Nick Ross, piano
Mark O’Connor: "Appalachian Waltz"
Songs from the Southern mountains
Copland: "Old American Songs"
Mendelssohn: Octet
$50 (includes reception at 6 p.m.)
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Theatre at Little Washington, 291 Gay St., Washington, VA
Castleton Festival:
Philip Myers, French horn
Liang Wang, oboe
Virginia Perry Lamb, piano
Program TBA
$25
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 10 (7:30 p.m.)
July 11 (6 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Tanya Anisimova, cello
Lydia Frumkin, piano
George Crumb: Sonata for solo cello
Brahms: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, Op. 100 (cello arr.)
Bach: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin (cello arr.)
Anisimova: "Appalachi" for cello and piano (premiere)
Anisimova: Three cello improvisations, "Appa," "La," "Chi"
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 10 (7:30 p.m.)
July 11 (2 p.m.)
July 12 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Opera
Lorin Maazel conducting
Britten: "The Rape of Lucretia"
Tyler Nelson (male chorus)
Arianna Zukerman (female chorus)
Matthew Worth (Tarquinius)
Paul LaRosa (Junius)
Allen Boxer (Collatinus)
Tamara Mumford (Lucretia)
Alison Tupay (Biana)
Marnie Breckenridge (Lucia)
William Kerley, stage direction
in English
$70-$80
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 11 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro" Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Glenn Dicterow, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
$50-$60
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 11 (5 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Benedict Goodfriend & James Stern, violins
Rachel Young & Rick Faria, clarinets
Barber: Adagio for strings
Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D major
Schnittke: "Suite in the Olden Style"
Alexander Arutiunian: Suite for clarinet, violin and piano
Janáček: “Pohadka”
$22
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 11 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Marvin Hamlisch conducting
"Hamlisch Conducts Hamlisch," excerpts from "A Chorus Line," "The Swimmer," "The Sting," "Sophie’s Choice," "The Way We Were"
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org

July 12 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen, Nelson County
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Josep Caballé-Domenech conducting
Britten: "Simple" Symphony
Daron Aric Hagen: Adagietto
Franz Xaver Pokorny: Flute Concerto in D major
Justin Berrie, flute
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings
$35
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 12 (3 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Benedict Goodfriend & James Stern, violins
Rachel Young & Rick Faria, clarinets
Prokofiev: "Overture on Hebrew Themes"
Joseph Achron: "Hebrew Melody" for violin and piano
Srul Irving Glick: "The Klezmer Wedding"
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66
$22
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Mary Kathleen Ernst, piano
MacDowell: "Woodland Sketches"
Barber: "Excursions"
Stephen Montague: "Southern Lament" (1997)
Tobias Picker: "Old and Lost Rivers" (1986)
Brahms: Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79
John Field: Nocturne No. 4 in A major
Mendelssohn: "Rondo capriccioso"
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Chamber Players
Daron Aric Hagen: Piano Trio No. 4
Hagen: "Angel Band"
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 44, No. 3
Songs by Hagen, Larry Alan Smith, others
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Theatre at Little Washington, 291 Gay St., Washington, VA
Castleton Festival:
Robert Langevin, flute
Nicholas Ong, piano
Program TBA
$25
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 16 (7:30 p.m.)
July 17 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra members
Michael Kennedy conducting
Stravinsky: "The Soldier’s Tale," adapted as "An American Civil War Fable" by Peter Coy (premiere)
Speakers, actors TBA
Boomie Pederson, stage direction
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 17 (8 p.m.)
July 26 (2 p.m.)
The Paramount, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Ash Lawn Opera
James Lowe conducting
Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro"
Cast TBA
Cecelia Schieve, stage direction
in English
$30-$35
(434) 979-1333 (The Paramount)
www.ashlawnopera.org

July 17 (7:30 p.m.)
July 18 (7 p.m.)
July 19 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Opera
Lorin Maazel conducting
Britten: "Albert Herring"
Jennifer Check (Lady Billows)
Kristen Patterson (Florence Pike)
Ashleigh Semkiw (Miss Wordsworth)
Alexander Tall (Mr. Gedge)
Tyler Nelson (Mr. Upfold)
Benjamin Bloomfield (Superintendent Budd)
Adrian Kramer (Sid)
Brian Z. Porter (Albert Herring)
Tammy Coil (Nancy)
Rachel Calloway (Mrs. Herring)
Tina Hughes (Emmie)
Ellen Broetzmann (Cis)
Noah Donahue (Harry)
William Kerley, stage direction
in English
$70-$80
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 18 (6 p.m.)
July 19 (6 p.m.)
July 20 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Steven Osgood conducting
Haydn: Notturno in C major
Elgar: "Chanson de nuit"
Elgar: "Chanson de matin"
Barber: "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"
Caroline Worra, soprano
Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll"
Britten: Sinfonietta, Op. 1
$35
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 18 (5 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Andrés Diaz, cello
Pianist TBA
Bach: Suite No. 2 in D minor for solo cello
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor
Kodály: Sonata, Op. 8, for solo cello
$22
(Free master class, 4 p.m. July 17)
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 18 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
Program TBA
Free
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org

July 19 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent, Castleton Farms, 663 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
Verdi: "La forza del destino" Overture
Tchaikovsky: "Rococo Variations"
Han Na Chang, cello
Britten: "A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra"
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Pianist TBA
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (fifth movement)
$50-$60
(540) 937-4969
www.castletonfestival.org

July 19 (3 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Schumann: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 63
Frank Bridge: Piano Quartet in F sharp minor ("Phantasie")
Josef Suk: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 1
$22
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 23 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
Mussorgsky: "Night on Bald Mountain"
Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
Orff: "Carmina Burana"
Joanna Mongiardo, soprano
Robert Baker, tenor
Hugh Russell, baritone
The Washington Chorus
Julian Wachner directing
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org

July 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Chamber Players
Brahms: Horn Trio, Op. 40
Stephen Michael Gryc: "Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Bela Bartók" (1992)
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 24 (8 p.m.)
Pavilion, Orkney Springs Hotel, 81 Shrine Mont Circle (Route 263), Basye
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival:
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper conducting
Dan Kamin, mime artist
"Charlie Chaplin at the Symphony," with screenings of "Easy Street" and "The Immigrant"
$27-$37
(800) 459-3396
www.musicfest.org

July 24 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
"The Wizard of Oz," film with live orchestral accompaniment
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org

July 25 (8 p.m.)
Ash Lawn, James Monroe Parkway (Route 795), near Charlottesville
Ash Lawn Opera members
"Mozart and More," program TBA
$20
(434) 979-1333 (The Paramount)
www.ashlawnopera.org

July 25 (6 p.m.)
July 26 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko conducting
Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Brian Ganz, piano
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
$35
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 25 (8 p.m.)
Pavilion, Orkney Springs Hotel, 81 Shrine Mont Circle (Route 263), Basye
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival:
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper conducting
Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
$27-$37
(800) 459-3396
www.musicfest.org

July 25 (5 p.m.)
Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, near Hot Springs
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Robbie Merfeld, piano
Bach: Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
Franz Biber: "Mystery" Sonata No. 1 in D minor ("The Annunciation")
Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1
$22
(877) 558-1689
www.garthnewel.org

July 25 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Erich Kunzel conducting
"The Music of John Williams," film scores from "Star Wars," "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone," "E.T., the Extraterrestial," others
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org

July 26 (4 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Guitar & Other Strings:
VCU Community Guitar Ensemble
John Patykula directing
Program TBA
Free
(804) 828-6776
http://www.vcu.edu/arts/music/dept/events/index.html

July 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Brian Ganz, piano
Beethoven: Sonata in F major, Op. 10, No. 2
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 31, No. 3
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique")
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Chamber Players
Beethoven: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 16
Stephen Michael Gryc: String Quartet (2002-03)
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 29 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Pianafiddle
Adam DeGraff, violin & fiddle
Lynn Wright, piano
Classical, folk, jazz program
$25
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 30 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Route 664, Nelson County
Wintergreen Academy Chamber Orchestra
Joseph J. Nigro & Joseph Hodge conducting
Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
Warlock: "Capriol" Suite
Holst: "Brook Green" Suite
Delius: Air and Dance
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
$15
(434) 325-8292
www.wintergreenperformingarts.org

July 30 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
Copland: "Four Dance Episodes from ‘Rodeo’ "
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Sarah Chang, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral")
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org

July 31 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna
Orchestra & Chorus
Emil de Cou conducting
"Blue Planet," excerpts from BBC series with live orchestral-choral accompaniment
$20-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org