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/youth, group and other discounts may be offered.
SCOUTING REPORT
* In and around Richmond: Steven Smith conducts the Richmond Symphony in the first of the season’s Rush Hour and Metro Collection chamber-orchestra concerts, including music of Mozart, Stravinsky,
Respighi and Cimarosa, Oct. 2 at Richmond CenterStage and Oct. 5 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland; and the opening of the Masterworks series, Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony (No. 2) with soloists and the Richmond Symphony Chorus, Oct. 18-19 at Richmond CenterStage. . . . Virginia Opera presents its season-opening production, Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Oct. 3 and 5 at Richmond CenterStage (also Oct. 11-12 at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax). . . . Small Trunk Opera stages a free performance of Arthur Sullivan’s first comedy, “Cox and Box,” Oct. 4 in the Gellman Room of the Richmond Public Library. . . . The Russian men’s chorus Lyra performs on Oct. 12 at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Bon Air. . . . The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia opens its 2014-season with two programs of Viennese and Viennese-inspired music, a free concert on Oct. 25 in the Richmond Public Library’s Gellman Room and a ticketed concert on Oct. 27 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church. . . . The New York Brass Arts Trio performs in a Rennolds Chamber Concerts program, Oct. 25 at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Singleton Arts Center.* Noteworthy elsewhere: Soprano Elizabeth Futral sings Barber’s “Knoxville, Summer of 1915” with the Roanoke Symphony, Oct. 5 at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre. . . . Opera Lafayette presents the first U.S. staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet “Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, ou Les Dieux d’Égypte” (“The Celebrations of Marriage and Love, or the Gods of Egypt”), Oct. 6 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. . . . David Zinman conducts Washington’s National Symphony in Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and, with pianist Angela Hewitt, Mozart, Oct. 9-11 at
the Kennedy Center. . . . Pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays Schumann, Bach and Schubert, Oct. 10 at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Northern Virginia. . . . Pianist Jon Nakamatsu joins the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet for a Tuesday Evening Concerts program of Mozart, Hindemith and Thuille, Oct. 14 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. . . . Violinist Cho-Liang Lin performs and leads the Virginia Symphony in an all-Mozart program, Oct. 17-19 at venues in Newport News, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. . . . St. Lawrence String Quartet and pianist Pedja Muzijevic play works of Beethoven, Korngold and Amy Beach, Oct. 24 at the Library of Congress in DC. . . . Violinist Midori joins Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony in a program of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Mozart, Oct. 30 (also Nov. 1) at the Kennedy Center.Oct. 1 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Terry Austin directing
program TBA
$7
(804) 828-6776
www.arts.vcu.edu/music
Oct. 1 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Oct. 2 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Pops
Benjamin Rous conducting
Spectrum, guest stars
“A Night in Motown”
$25-$93
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Oct. 1 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 2 (7 p.m.)
Oct. 4 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Halls conducting
Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Paul Jacobs, organ
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (“Lobegesang”)
Tamara Wilson & Twyla Robinson, sopranos
Paul Appleby, tenor
The Washington Chorus
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 2 (6:30 p.m.)
Gottwald Playhouse, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Oct. 5 (3 p.m.)
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 205 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Cimarosa: “Il matrimonio segreto” Overture
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major (“Dumbarton Oaks”)
Respighi: “Trittico botticelliano”
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 (“Linz”)
$20
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Oct. 3 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 5 (2:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Stephen Sondheim: “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Stephen Powell (Sweeney Todd)
Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Lovett)
André Chiang (Anthony Hope)
Amanda Opuszynski (Johanna)
Jake Gardner (Judge Turpin)
Diana DiMarzio (beggar woman)
Javier Abreu (Pirelli)
Scott Ramsey (Beadle)
David Blalock (Tobias)
Adrian Smith (Jonas Fogg)
Brian Mextorf (bird keeper)
Ron Daniels, stage director
in English, English captions
$15.25-$103.95
(866) 673-6782
www.vaopera.org
Oct. 5 (3 p.m.)
Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre, Orange Avenue at Williamson Road
Roanoke Symphony
David Stewart Wiley conducting
Beethoven: “Egmont” Overture
Barber: “Knoxville, Summer of 1915”
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Elizabeth Futral, soprano
$32-$52
(540) 343-9127
www.rso.com
Oct. 4 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Small Trunk Opera
Arthur Sullivan: “Cox and Box”
cast TBA
in English
free
(804) 646-7223
www.richmondpubliclibrary.org
Oct. 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Opera Lafayette
Ryan Brown conducting
Rameau: “Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, ou Les Dieux d’Égypte” (“The Celebrations of Marriage and Love, or the Gods of Egypt”)
Calire Debono (Orthésie, Ori)
Jeffrey Thompson (Osiris, Aruéris)
Ingrid Perruche (Mirrine, Memphis)
François Lis (Canope, un Égyptien)
Aaron Sheehan (le Plaisir, Agéris, un Berger égyptien)
Kelly Ballou (l’Amour, une Égyptienne)
Laetitia Spitzer Grimaldi (l’Hymen, une Bergère égyptienne)
William Sharp (le Grand Prêtre, un Égyptien)
Kyle Bielfield (un Berger égyptien)
Catherine Turocy, Anuradha Nehru & Seán Curran, choreographers
in French, English captions
$20-$95
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Myssyk conducting
program TBA
$7 in advance, $10 day of event
(804) 828-6776
www.arts.vcu.edu/music
Oct. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Dover Quartet
Glazunov: “Five Novelettes,” Op. 15
Mozart: Quartet in D major, K. 499 (“Hoffmeister”)
Schubert: Quartet in A minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)
$32
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Belgrade Philharmonic
Muhai Tang conducting
Khachaturian: “Masquerade” Suite
Stevan Hristic: “The Legend of Ohrid”
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major
$15-$55
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 9 (7 p.m.)
Oct. 10 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 11 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman conducting
Schoenberg: “Five Pieces for Orchestra,” Op. 16
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482
Angela Hewitt, piano
Richard Strauss: “Also sprach Zarathustra”
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Ray Chen, violin
Julio Elizalde, piano
Mozart: Violin Sonata in A major, K. 305
Sarasate: “Habanera,” “Playera,” “Zigeunerweisen”
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
$25
(202) 985-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Oct. 9 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Pops
Jack Everly conducting
Christina Bianco & Ted Keegan, vocalists
“Broadway Standing Ovations”
$45-$115
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 10 (7 p.m.)
Hanover Arts & Activities Center, 500 Center St., Ashland
Hanover Concert Band
Karla Bloom directing
Central Virginia Masterworks Chorale
David Sinden directing
pops concert marking 25th anniversary of band
program TBA
donations accepted
(804) 789-0536
www.hanoverconcertband.org
Oct. 10 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jae Sinnett Trio
Virginia Symphony Orchestra
works by Sinnett, others TBA
$22-$57
(757) 594-8752
www.fergusoncenter.org
Oct. 10 (8 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Schumann: “Kinderszenen”
J.S. Bach: “French Suite” No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, D. 960
$40
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org
Oct. 11 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 12 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Stephen Sondheim: “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Stephen Powell (Sweeney Todd)
Phyllis Pancella (Mrs. Lovett)
André Chiang (Anthony Hope)
Amanda Opuszynski (Johanna)
Jake Gardner (Judge Turpin)
Diana DiMarzio (beggar woman)
Javier Abreu (Pirelli)
Scott Ramsey (Beadle)
David Blalock (Tobias)
Adrian Smith (Jonas Fogg)
Brian Mextorf (bird keeper)
Ron Daniels, stage director
in English, English captions
$44-$98
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.vaopera.org
Oct. 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Pan-American Symphony Orchestra
Sergio Alessandro Buslje conducting
“The Soul of Tango”
Piazzolla: works TBA
Emilio Teubal: piano improvisations
$40-$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 12 (7:30 p.m.)
Christ the King Lutheran Church, 9800 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Lyra
Russian Orthodox chants and folk songs TBA
donation requested
(804) 272-2995
wsww.ctkrva.org
Oct. 12 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Kennedy Center Chamber Players
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
Ives: Piano Trio
Saint-Saëns: Fantasie, Op. 124, for violin and harp
Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”)
$36
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 14 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Tuesday Evening Concerts:
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Mozart-Hasel: Fantasy for mechanical organ, K. 608
Mozart: Quintet in E flat major, K. 452, for piano and winds
Hindemith: “Kleine Kammermusik,” Op. 24, No. 2
Thuille: Sextet in B flat major, Op. 6, for piano and winds
$12-$33
(434) 924-3376
www.tecs.org
Oct. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Young Concert Artists Series:
Yun-Chin Zhou, piano
Haydn: Sonata in E flat major, Hob. XVI:49
Liszt: “Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude”
Ravel: “La Valse”
Trenet-Weissenberg: “Six Songs”
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36
$35
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Danish String Quartet
Mendelssohn: Capriccio in E minor, Op. 81, No. 3
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117
Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
$35
(202) 985-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
www.wpas.org
Oct. 15 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Jeremy Filsell, organ
Jongen: “Sonata Eroica,” Op. 94
Dupré: “Évocation (poème symphonique),” Op. 37
Hampton: “Everyone Dance”
Rachmaninoff-Fuilsell: Symphonic Dances
$15
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 17 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Oct. 18 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Oct. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
Cho-Liang Lin, violin & director
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218
Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
$25-$107
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Oct. 18 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 19 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”)
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Jennifer Feinstein, mezzo-soprano
Richmond Symphony Chorus
Erin R. Freeman directing
$10-$78
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Oct. 18 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 19 (2:30 p.m.)
American Theatre, 125 E. Mellen St., Hampton
Hampton Roads Philharmonic
Peter Brindle conducting
program TBA
$20
(757) 722-2787
www.hamptonarts.net
Oct. 18 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 19 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Mendelssohn: “A Midsuumer Night’s Dream” Overture
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Chee-Yun, violin
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”)
$28-$84
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
Matthew Rose, bass
Vlad Iftinca, piano
Purcell-Britten: “Job’s Curse,” “Let the Dreadful Engines of Eternal Will”
Loewe: “Archibald Douglas”
Schubert: “Schwanengesang”
$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 20 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
UVa Chamber Music Series:
Ayn Balija, viola
Rob Patterson, clarinet
Shelby Sender, piano
Prokofiev: “Scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ”
Mozart: Trio in E flat major, K. 498 (“Kegelstatt”)
Brahms: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 102, No. 2
$15
(434) 924-3376
www.music.virginia.edu
Oct. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
American Theatre, 125 E. Mellen St., Hampton
Habaneros Quintet
Cuban and Latin-American works TBA
$25-$30
(757) 722-2787
www.hamptonarts.net
Oct. 23 (7 p.m.)
Oct. 24 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 25 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
John Mauceri conducting
“Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton”
$20-$88
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 24 (8 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU BrassFest:
Nautilus Brass Quintet
program TBA
free
(804) 828-6776
www.arts.vcu.edu/music
Oct. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra
Peter Wilson conducting
Kevin Bennear, baritone
“Symphonic Masquerade, an Evening of Suspense and Romance”
Johann Strauss II: “Die Fledermaus” Overture
Broadway selections TBA
$30-$75
(434) 979-1333
www.theparamount.net
Oct. 24 (8 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano
Kim Pensinger Witman, piano
songs by Brahms, Ives, Rachmaninoff, Lee Hoiby
$35
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
www.wolftrap.org
Oct. 24 (8 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue N.E., Washington
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Beethoven: Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67
Korngold: Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 34
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
www.loc.gov/concerts
Oct. 24 (8:15 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
BSO Off the Cuff:
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting & speaking
Richard Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben”
$32-$95
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 25 (11 a.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony LolliPops
Kaitaro Harada conducting
“Beethoven Lives Upstairs”
$10-$12
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Oct. 25 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Mary Boodell, flute
Carsten Schmidt, piano
“Neo-Vienna”
Onate Narbutaite: “Winter Serenade”
Arvo Pärt: “Mozart Adagio”
Alfred Schnittke: “Mozart à la Haydn”
Matthew Burtner: “(dis)integrations”
Judith Shatin: “Fledermaus Fantasy”
free
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org
Oct. 25 (8 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Rennolds Chamber Concerts:
New York Brass Arts Trio
program TBA
$34
(804) 828-6776
www.arts.vcu.edu/music
Oct. 25 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Richmond Ballet
Virginia Symphony & Virginia Symphony Chorus
conductor TBA
soloists TBA
Orff: “Carmina Burana”
$30-$107
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Oct. 25 (8 p.m.)
Oct. 26 (2 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Copland: “Quiet City”
Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat major (“Dumbarton Oaks”)
Copland: “Appalachian Spring”
Stravinsky: suites Nos. 1 and 2 for small orchestra
$25-$60
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.fairfaxsymphony.org
Oct. 26 (3 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
UR Schola Cantorum & Women’s Chorale
Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing
program TBA
free
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Oct. 26 (4 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, 664 Castleton View Road, Rappahannock County
Stefano Greco, piano
wind ensemble
J.S. Bach: “Goldberg Variations” for piano and in wind-ensemble arrangement by John R. Bourgeois
$20-$40
(866) 974-0767
www.castletonfestival.org
Oct. 26 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Christopher Rouse: “Rapture”
Scriabin: “Poem of Ecstasy”
Richard Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben”
$32-$95
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 26 (4 p.m.)
Mansion at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Christopher Shih, piano
program TBA
$32
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Oct. 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Mary Boodell, flute
Carsten Schmidt, piano
Stephen Henley, organ
“Austro-Hungarian Waltz”
Johann Strauss II-Schoenberg: “Roses from the South”
Haydn: Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3 (“Emperor”)
Korngold: Waltz for piano
Webern: Piece for string trio
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1
$25
(804) 519-2098
www.cmscva.org
Oct. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 8 N. Laurel St., Richmond
Richmond chapter, American Guild of Organists:
Grant Hellmers, Beth Melcher, Charles Lindsey, Beth Melcher Davis, Larry Heath, John DeMajo & Cheryl Van Ornam, organ
“Organ Spooktacular”
works by J.S. Bach, Howells, Langlais, Anderson, Mancini, others
donation accepted
(804) 359-5268
www.richmondago.org
Oct. 28 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St.
Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg:
Horszowski Piano Trio
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:27
John Harbison: Piano Trio No. 2 (“Short Stories”)
Schumann: Piano Trio in F major, Op. 80
$15
(757) 229-0385
www.chambermusicwilliamsburg.org
Oct. 29 (8 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue N.E., Washington
Vox Luminus
Lionel Meunier directing
anon. (12th cen.): “Lamentation de la Vierge au Croix”
Monteverdi: “Vorrei Baciarto, o Fili,” “Alcun non mi consigli,” “Lamento della ninfa”
Della Ciaia: “Lamentatio Virginis in Depositione Filii de Cruce”
D. Scarlatti: “Stabat Mater à 10”
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
www.loc.gov/concerts
Oct. 30 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major (“Reformation”)
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
Midori, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (“Jupiter”)
$10-$85
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Oct. 30 (8 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue N.E., Washington
Ensemble Del Niente
George Lewis: new work TBA (premiere)
Lewis: “Assemblage”
Georg Friedrich Haas: “in vain”
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
www.loc.gov/concerts
Oct. 30 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu conducting
Beethoven: “Leonore” Overture No. 3
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Conrad Tao, piano
Andrew Balio, trumpet
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
$32-$95
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org