A sampler of music from the 1920s: A jazzy, fast-forward decade, to be sure, but also the birth years of neoclassicism, the musical style that looks back while looking ahead.
Sept. 28
10 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT
1400-1700 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://www.wdce.org
Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
(jazz-band orchestration by Ferde Grofé)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra/
Marin Alsop
(Decca)
Ravel: Sonata
for violin and piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Jeremy Denk, piano
(Sony Classical)
Past Masters:
Milhaud: “La création du monde”
Champs Elysées Theatre Orchestra/
Darius Milhaud
(recorded 1958)
(Pristine Classical)
Weill: “The Little
Threepenny Music”
London Symphony Orchestra/
Michael Tilson Thomas
(Sony Classical)
Past Masters:
Walton: “Façade”
Peggy Ashcroft & Paul Scofield, reciters
London Sinfonietta/William Walton
(recorded 1969)
(Decca Eloquence)
J.S. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 538
(orchestration by
Ottorino Respighi)
BBC Philharmonic/
Leonard Slatkin
(Chandos)
Stravinsky: Octet for winds
Boston Symphony
Chamber Players
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Bloch: Concerto grosso No. 1
Marc Pantillon, piano
Bienne Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Rösner
(Atma Classique)
Sept. 14
10 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT
1400-1700 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://www.wdce.org
Richard Strauss: “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/
Manfred Honeck
(Reference Recordings)
Mozart:
Sinfonia concertante
in E flat major, K. 297b
(reconstruction by
Robert D. Levin)
Aurèle Nicolet, flute
Heinz Holliger, oboe
Hermann Baumann, French horn
Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/
Neville Marriner
(Philips)
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
James Galway, flute
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Heidi Lehwalder, harp
Tokyo String Quartet
(RCA Victor)
Beethoven: Sonata
in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”)
András Schiff, piano
(ECM)
Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto in D major
Jennifer Koh, violin
Odense Symphony Orchestra/
Alexander Vedernikov
(Çedille)
Past Masters:
Delius: “Brigg Fair”
Royal Philharmonic/
Thomas Beecham
(recorded 1956)
(EMI Classics)
Amy Beach:
Theme and Variations,
Op. 80, for flute and
string quartet
Ambache
(Chandos)
Vaughan Williams: “Ten Blake Songs”
Mark Padmore, tenor
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
(Harmonia Mundi)
The 19th annual Richmond music festival staged by pianist Alexander Paley will run from Sept. 16 to 18 at St. Luke Lutheran Church.
This year’s festival features Paley with his wife and keyboard partner, Pei-Wen Chen, in four-hands 
arrangements of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and Paley with violinist Daisuke Yamamoto, French horn player James Ferree, cellist Nicholas Finch and clarinetist Charles West in chamber works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Anton Arensky and Alexander Zemlinsky.
Paley also will play Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” and four-hands pieces by Mozart and Rachmaninoff with Chen.
The Vivaldi arrangement will be a US premiere.
There is no admission charge for the concerts, but donations are requested.
For more information on the festival, call (804) 665-9516 or visit http://paleymusicfestival.org
Dates, times, artists and programs at St. Luke, 7757 Chippenham Parkway:
Sept. 16 (7:30 p.m.) – Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons” (Alexander Paley and Pei-Wen Chen, piano four-hands); Brahms: Sonata in E minor, Op. 38 (Nicholas Finch, cello; Paley, piano); Brahms: Trio in E flat major, Op. 40 (James Ferree, French horn; Daisuke Yamamoto, violin; Paley, piano).
Sept. 17 (7:30 p.m.) – Prokofiev: Sonata, Op. 119, for cello and piano (Finch, cello; Paley, piano); Rachmaninoff: “Six Pieces,” Op. 11 (Paley and Chen, piano four-hands); Tchaikovsky: “The Seasons” (Paley, piano); Arensky: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32 (Yamamoto, violin; Finch, cello; Paley, piano).
Sept. 18 (3 p.m.) – Mozart: Sonata in F major, K. 497 (Paley and Chen, piano four-hands); Mozart-Zemlinsky: “The Magic Flute” (Paley and Chen, piano four-hands); Zemlinsky: Trio in D minor, Op. 3 (Charles West, clarinet; Finch, cello; Paley, piano).
L. Wayne Batty, the longtime voice professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and impresario of hundreds of productions of opera and musical theater 
in Richmond since the 1950s, has died at 94.
Perhaps most widely known for staging Christmas-season performances of Gian
Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl
and the Night Visitors” at the Altria Theater, Batty was the teacher and mentor of generations of singers in Richmond and well beyond. His best-known student, tenor Thomas Moser, became a major figure in opera in Europe, singing on the roster of the Vienna State Opera and with other major companies.
Staging locally produced opera, often in tandem with his wife, Mary Jane Ellis Batty, with the Richmond Opera Company and in Festival of Arts productions at Dogwood Dell, Batty devoted special attention to contemporary American scores. He led one of the first performances of Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” following its premiere in 1958 at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
(In 2002, Batty accompanied me to a Washington National Opera revival of “Vanessa,” with Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role and Rosalind Elias, who portrayed Erika in the original production, as the Old Countess. Attending that performance, I missed the biggest news story to come of Ashland during the 27 years I lived there – the southernmost attack in the killing spree of the Washington snipers. The musical lore that Batty recounted during the trip more than compensated for my missing the big story.)
After singing with the World War II-era Army Air Corps Stage Band led by Henry Mancini and completing musical studies, Batty joined the faculty of what was then Richmond Professional Institute in 1949, and subsequently served for 12 years as chairman of the school’s music department. When he retired in 2007 after 58 years, he was both the longest-serving VCU professor and the longest-serving state employee.
An obituary by Ellen Robertson in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
http://www.richmond.com/zzstyling/article_88e6394b-c4d1-57f5-aace-29064aba8894.html
Classical music in Richmond often puts patrons through juggling acts: Which among several options to choose in a given week or
weekend?
Each year, compiling and posting a preview of the classical season, I inevitably find conflicts in performance scheduling.
The 2016-17 season starts with a conflict that really takes the cake.
On the weekend of Sept. 16-18, there will be
eight concerts in three days: the Dover Quartet in the opening of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Rennolds Chamber Concerts series, the first concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia’s season, pianist Alexander Paley’s three-day fall festival at St. Luke Lutheran Church, a Chester Village concert by the Richmond Symphony under its “big tent” outdoor concert stage, and singer Ute Gfrerer and pianist Adam Turner, previewing Virginia Opera’s forthcoming production of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” with a cabaret program at Dominion Arts Center.
It is physically possible to attend four of these performances. I’m planning to attend three. Non-gluttonous music-lovers presumably will opt for one or two.
Aside from the symphony’s pops concert, all of the above all chamber-music events, staged in small venues; so, conceivably, there are enough interested listeners to go around.
That’s assuming the classical crowd examines programs (which I’ve posted in the September calendar); sees, for example, that on Sept. 18 the Chamber Music Society is presenting an all-Schubert program at Second Presbyterian Church, while Paley and friends are playing Mozart and Zemlinsky at St. Luke; makes its choices and neatly cleaves into respectable turnouts for each concert.
Sept. 16-18 is one of three significant weekend clusters of performances this season. The other two:
– Virginia Opera’s season-opening double-bill of “The Seven Deadly Sins” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Oct. 14 and 16 at Dominion Arts Center; the Parker Quartet with violist Kim Kashkashian, Oct. 15 at VCU; the first of the Richmond Symphony’s Metro Collection chamber-orchestra concerts, Oct. 16 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland; and the Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet, Oct. 16 in the first ticketed classical concert of the season at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center.
– Virginia Opera’s “The Magic Marksman” (its English translation of Weber’s “Der Freischütz”), Feb. 17 and 19 at Dominion Arts Center; organist David Goode, in the Repertoire Recital Series of the Richmond chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Feb. 17 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church; the Montrose Trio, Feb. 18 at VCU; the symphony with its principal timpanist, Jim Jacobson, Feb. 19 at Randolph-Macon; the Shanghai Quartet with pipa (Chinese lute) player Wu Man, Feb. 19 at UR. (On the 19th, the symphony and opera perform in the afternoon, the Shanghai and Wu Man in the evening.)
Presenters’ excuses for such pileups: Touring artists and locals with multiple professional commitments couldn’t be engaged on other dates. . . . We don’t think there will be much audience overlap with other events. . . . We have to schedule on weekends because that’s what our audience expects.
However it’s rationalized, clustering events disserves performers and their audiences. It depresses turnout for an art form that struggles to draw a crowd under optimal circumstances. And listeners don’t get time to digest what they hear in one program before hearing the next.
OK, enough ranting.
Here’s a thumbnail listing of major events in Richmond’s 2016-17 classical season. I’ll add to the list as more dates are announced. Details will be posted in each month’s calendars. Asterisks (*) denote free or by-donation events. Box-office phone numbers and links to presenters’ websites follow the list.
SEPTEMBER
*10 – Richmond Symphony/Chia-Hsuan Lin (Pocahontas State Park)
11 – John Bullard, classical banjo (VCU Singleton Center)
*14 – Richmond Piano Trio (UR Modlin Center)
*16 – Alexander Paley Music Festival (St. Luke Lutheran Church)
*17 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Richmond Public Library)
*17 – Alexander Paley Music Festival (St. Luke Lutheran Church)
17 – Dover Quartet (VCU Singleton Center)
*17 – Richmond Symphony/conductor TBA (Chester Village Green)
17 – Ute Gfrerer, vocalist; Adam Turner, piano (Dominion Arts Center)
18 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Second Presbyterian Church)
*18 – Alexander Paley Music Festival (St. Luke Lutheran Church)
25 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Itzhak Perlman, violin (Dominion Arts Center)
*25 – George-Lin-Kibbey Trio (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
30 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith Casual Fridays (Dominion Arts Center)
OCTOBER
1 – Richmond Symphony Lollipops/Chia-Hsuan Lin with Lynn Dillies, magician (Dominion Arts Center)
*7 – Monica Czausz, organ (Ginter Park Presbyterian Church)
13 – Richmond Symphony Rush Hour/Steven Smith with Daisuke Yamamoto, violin (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery)
14/16 – Virginia Opera: “The Seven Deadly Sins” & “Pagliacci” (Dominion Arts Center)
15 – Parker Quartet with Kim Kashkashian, viola (VCU Singleton Center)
16 – Sphinx Virtuosi & Catalyst Quartet (UR Modlin Center)
16 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Daisuke Yamamoto, violin (Randolph-Macon College)
22-23 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Anton Nel, piano (Dominion Arts Center)
23 – Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord (Second Presbyterian Church)
*26 – Paul Hanson, piano (UR Modlin Center)
29 – Richmond Symphony Pops/Chia-Hsuan Lin with Rashida Scott, vocals (Altria Theater)
NOVEMBER
*4 – Jennifer Pascual, organ (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
*4-5 – Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival with eighth blackbird (UR Modlin Center)
6 – Richmond Philharmonic/Peter Wilson (Collegiate School)
10 – Roomful of Teeth & UR Schola Cantorum (UR Modlin Center)
12-13 – Richmond Symphony & Symphony Chorus/Steven Smith with vocal soloists: “Romeo and Juliet” (Dominion Arts Center)
18/20 – Virginia Opera: “The Barber of Seville” (Dominion Arts Center)
26 – Richmond Symphony Lollipops/Chia-Hsuan Lin “The Snowman” (Dominion Arts Center)
DECEMBER
2 – Richmond Symphony & Symphony Chorus/Erin Freeman with vocal soloists: “Messiah” (Dominion Arts Center)
3-4 – Richmond Symphony Pops & Symphony Chorus/Chia-Hsuan Lin “Let It Snow!” (Dominion Arts Center)
*4 – Festival of Lessons and Carols (UR Cannon Memorial Chapel)
*5 – Richmond Philharmonic/Peter Wilson holiday concert (James Center Atrium)
*10 – Festival of Lessons and Carols (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
11 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Wilton House Museum)
12 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Holy Comforter Episcopal Church)
JANUARY
13 – Richmond Symphony Casual Fridays/
Jacques Houtmann (Dominion Arts Center)
14 – Richmond Symphony/Jacques Houtmann with Rémi Geniet, piano (Dominion Arts Center)
19 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery)
21 – Jeremy Denk, piano (UR Modlin Center)
21 – Richmond Symphony Pops/Chia-Hsuan Lin (Dominion Arts Center)
22 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith (Randolph-Macon College)
28 – Richmond Symphony Lollipops/Chia-Hsuan Lin (Dominion Arts Center)
28 – Anne Akiko Meyers, violin (VCU Singleton Center)
FEBRUARY
4-5 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Jason Vieaux, guitar (Dominion Arts Center)
4 – Philip Glass, Maki Namekaya, Aaron Diehl & Lisa Kaplan, pianos (UR Modlin Center)
*5 – Richard Becker, piano (UR Modlin Center)
12 – Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
16 – Richmond Symphony Rush Hour with Jim Jacobson, timpani (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery)
*17 – David Goode, organ (St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church)
17/19 – Virginia Opera: “The Magic Marksman” (“Der Freischütz”) (Dominion Arts Center)
18 – Montrose Trio (VCU Singleton Center)
19 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Jim Jacobson, timpani (Randolph-Macon College)
19 – Shanghai Quartet & Wu Man, pipa (UR Modlin Center)
MARCH
3 – Richmond Symphony Casual Fridays/Steven Smith (Dominion Arts Center)
4 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Jinjoo Cho, violin (Dominion Arts Center)
10 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (private home)
*11 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Richmond Public Library)
11 – Richmond Symphony Pops/Chia-Hsuan Lin with Ann Hampton Calloway, vocals (Dominion Arts Center)
15-16 – Brooklyn Rider with Wendy Whelan & Brian Brooks, dancers (UR Modlin Center)
*19 – Richard Becker & Doris Wylee-Becker, pianos (UR Modlin Center)
19 – Richmond Philharmonic/Peter Wilson with Irina Muresanu, violin (Steward School)
*22 – Ronald Crutcher, cello & Joanne Kong, piano (UR Modlin Center)
25 – Richmond Symphony Lollipops/Chia-Hsuan Lin with Sara Valentine, actor (Dominion Arts Center)
29 – eighth blackbird with Will Oldham, singer-songwriter (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
31 – Virginia Opera: “Turandot” (Dominion Arts Center)
APRIL
1 – Joshua Roman, cello (VCU Singleton Center)
2 – Virginia Opera: “Turandot” (Dominion Arts Center)
*3 – Bruce Stevens, organ (UR Cannon Memorial Chapel)
8-9 – Richmond Symphony & Symphony Chorus/Steven Smith (Dominion Arts Center)
20 – Takács Quartet (UR Modlin Center)
*22 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (Richmond Public Library)
23 – Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia (UR Perkinson Recital)
27 – Richmond Symphony Rush Hour/Chia-Hsuan Lin (Hardywood Park Craft Brewery)
30 – Richmond Symphony/Chia-Hsuan Lin (Randolph-Macon College)
*30 – David Higgs, organ (River Road Church, Baptist)
MAY
*3 – David Jonies, organ (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
6 – Miró Quartet (VCU Singleton Center)
7 – Richmond Philharmonic/Peter Wilson with Thomas Jöstlein, James Ferree, George Harple & Merry Beth Hall, French horns (Collegiate School)
12 – Richmond Symphony Casual Fridays/Steven Smith (Dominion Arts Center)
13 – Richmond Symphony/Steven Smith with Gary Hoffman, cello (Dominion Arts Center)
*26 – Acronym Baroque Ensemble (Cathedral of the Sacred Heart)
JUNE
*18 – Richmond Philharmonic/Peter Wilson (Summer Park, Brandermill)
* * *
Richmond Symphony
(804) 788-1212
http://www.richmondsymphony.com
Virginia Opera
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org
Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
(804) 289-8980
http://www.modlin.richmond.edu
Rennolds Chamber Concerts, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University
(804) 828-1166
http://arts.vcu.edu/music/events/rennolds/
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia
(804) 519-2098
http://www.cmscva.org
Alexander Paley Music Festival
(804) 665-9516
http://paleymusicfestival.org
Richmond Philharmonic
(804) 673-7400
http://www.richmondphilharmonic.org
Richmond chapter, American Guild of Organists
http://www.richmondago.org
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.
* In and around Richmond: The Richmond Symphony previews its 2016-17 season with free outdoor concerts, both led by its associate conductor, Chia-
Hsuan Lin, Sept. 10 at Pocahontas State Park and Sept. 17 at Chester Village Green, both in Chesterfield County. . . . The symphony season formally begins with violinist Itzhak Perlman joining the orchestra and its music director, Steven Smith, in a sold-out concert on Sept. 25, and with Smith conducting and discussing works of Richard Strauss and Leonard Bernstein in the first of the season’s Rush Hour mini-concerts on Sept. 30, both at Dominion Arts Center. . . . The Richmond Piano Trio – University of Richmond-based pianist Joanne Kong and two symphony principals, violinist Daisuke Yamamoto and cellist Neal Cary – plays Beethoven, 
Boccherini and Ravel in the first classical program of the season at UR’s Modlin Arts Center on Sept. 14.
. . . Pianist Alexander Paley returns for his 19th fall music festival in Richmond, joined by his wife and piano four-hands partner, Pei-Wen Chen, and by violinist Yamamoto, cellist Nicholas Finch, clarinetist Charles West and French horn player James Ferree in music of Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and others, Sept. 16-18 at St. Luke Lutheran Church. . . . The Dover Quartet plays Beethoven, Britten and Shostakovich in 
the season opener of the Rennolds Chamber Concerts series, Sept. 17
at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Singleton Arts Center. . . . The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia launches its season with a free program of Boccherini and George Onslow on Sept. 17 at the Richmond Public Library, and a ticketed all-Schubert program of the “Trout” Quintet, featuring Carsten Schmidt playing a period-style fortepiano, and String Quintet in C major, Sept. 18 at Second Presbyterian Church. . . . Singer Ute Gfrerer, with Virginia Opera’s Adam Turner at the piano, previews the company’s production of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” in a cabaret program, “Sinful Nights,” Sept. 17 at Dominion Arts Center, following a Sept. 14 date at the Copeland Center in Norfolk.
* Noteworthy elsewhere: The Garth Newel Piano Quartet and guests play Schubert, Dvořák, Shostakovich and more on Sept. 3 and 4 in the final programs of the summer season at Garth Newel Music Center, near Hot Springs in Bath County. . . . The Virginia Symphony begins a chamber-music series with an all-Brahms program, Sept. 7 at Christopher Newport University’s 
Ferguson Arts Center in Newport News, and launches its subscription season with conductor JoAnn Falletta and pianist Conrad Tao in program of Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Borodin, Sept. 23-25 at venues in Newport News, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
. . . The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival presents Toshio Hosokawa’s one-act opera on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and works by Dvořák, Brahms, Chausson, Enescu, Debussy, Shostakovich and others in seven concerts, Sept. 8-22 at various venues. . . . Edgar 
Meyer, the star of the double-bass, plays Bach and his own music, Sept. 9 at Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg. . . . Colin Mochrie of The Second City comedy troupe joins Steven Reineke and the National Symphony Pops for “The Second City Guide to the Symphony,” Sept. 15-17 at Washington’s Kennedy Center. . . . Washington National Opera stages Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” with soprano Amanda Majeski in the role of Countess Almaviva, in five performances, Sept. 22-30 at the Kennedy Center 
Opera House. . . . Kate Tamarkin launches her farewell season as music director of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia with Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” and works by Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Dan Welcher, Sept. 23 at UVa’s Old Cabell Hall and Sept. 25 at Charlottesville High School. . . . Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F major with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony 
Orchestra, on a program also featuring Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 5 with soprano Julia Bullock, Sept. 24 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of DC. . . . Lang Lang joins Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto in the orchestra’s season-opening gala, Sept. 25 at the Kennedy Center. . . . Adam Turner conducts an unusual double-bill of Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” in the first production of Virginia Opera’s 2016-17 season, Sept. 30 at Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House (with more performances in October in Norfolk, Fairfax and Richmond).
Sept. 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Lake Matoaca Amphitheater, 201 Ukrop Way, Williamsburg
Sept. 3 (7:30 p.m.)
Yorktown Riverwalk Landing, 425 Water St.
Sept. 4 (7 p.m.)
Chesapeake City Park, 900 Greenbrier Road
Sept. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
31st Street Stage, 31st Street at Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
Smith: “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Berlioz: “Le Corsaire” Overture
trad.: “Shenandoah”
Handel: “Water Music” – Overture and hornpipe
Mancini: “Moon River”
Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade” – “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship”
John Williams: “Jaws” Suite (excerpts)
Richard Rodgers-Bennett: “South Pacific” Symphony Scenario
James Horsay: “Rivers of the Chesapeake” – “The Elizabeth”
Ted Ricketts: “Pirates of the Caribbean”
Sousa: “Hands Across the Sea”
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org
Sept. 3 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Bath County
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Juliette Kang, violin
Stephen Fang, cello
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
$25, $84 with dinner
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org
Sept. 4 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Bath County
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Juliette Kang, violin
Stephen Fang, cello
Chopin: Préludes, Op. 28
Boccherini: Cello Quintet in C major
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
$25, $43 with picnic
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org
Sept. 4 (8 p.m.)
West Lawn, US Capitol, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Steven Reineke conducting
Storm Large & Le Bonheur
Labor Day concert
works TBA by Sousa, American songwriters
free
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 7 (7 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Virginia Symphony Chamber Series:
Vahn Armstrong & Elizabeth Coulter Vonderheide, violins
Satoko Rickenbacker & Matthew Umlauf, violas
Michael Daniels & Rebecca Gilmore Phillips, cellos
Michael Byerly, clarinet
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
$35
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org
Sept. 8 (8 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Eric Jacobson, conducting
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano
Min-Young Kim & Timothy Summers, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
Thomas Kraines, cello
Zachary Cohen, double-bass
Blair McMillen, piano
Igor Begelman, clarinet
Erik Rönmark, saxophone
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Dave Nelson, trombone
Matthew Gold & I-Jen Fang, percussion
Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Edward Nesbit: “Funeral Music (after Purcell)” (premiere)
Toshio Hosokawa: “The Raven”
$18-$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 8 (7:30 p.m.)
Family Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Janai Brugger, soprano
pianist TBA
program TBA
$39
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 9 (12:30 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano
Min-Young Kim & Timothy Summers, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
Thomas Kraines & Raphael Bell, cellos
Blair McMillen, piano
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Matthew Gold & I-Jen Fang, percussion
works TBA by Mozart, Rossini, Enescu, George Benjamin
free
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Salem Civic Center, 1001 Roanoke Boulevard
Roanoke Symphony Pops
David Stewart Wiley conducting
Billy Ocean, guest star
$32-$53
(540) 343-9127
http://rso.com
Sept. 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Fife Theatre, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg
Edgar Meyer, double-bass
J.S. Bach: Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Meyer: new work TBA
other works TBA
$25-$55
(540) 231-5300
http://www.artscenter.vt.edu
Sept. 10 (6 p.m.)
Heritage Amphitheater, Pocahontas State Park, 10301 State Park Road, Chesterfield County
Richmond Symphony
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
Rossini: “The Barber of Seville” Overture
Britten: “Matinées musicales” (excerpts)
Lerner & Loewe-John Whitney: “My Fair Lady” Medley
Henry Mancini-John Ross: “Moon River”
Vaughan Williams: “English Folk Song Suite” (excerpts)
Rodgers & Hammerstein-Walter Paul: “Carousel” Suite
Benny Anderson-Roy Philippe: “Mamma Mia” Suite
Lalo Schifrin: “Mission Impossible” theme
free ($7 parking fee)
(804) 796-4255
http://www.richmondsymphony.com
Sept. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
Town Point Park, Norfolk
Virginia Opera singers
Virginia Symphony
Adam Turner conducting
“Opera in the Park”
works TBA by Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, others
free
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org
Sept. 10 (8:30 p.m.)
Live Arts, 123 E. Water St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo–soprano
Min-Young Kim & Timothy Summers, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
Thomas Kraines & Raphael Bell, cellos
Zachary Cohen, double-bass
Blair McMillen, piano
Angela Jones-Reus, flute
Igor Begelman, clarinet
Erik Rönmark, saxophone
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Matthew Gold & I-Jen Fang, percussion
“Music Fresh Squeezed”
program TBA
$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 11 (4 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
John Bullard, classical banjo
program TBA
$15
(804) 828-6776
http://arts.vcu.edu/music/events/
Sept. 11 (3 p.m.)
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 201 Walnut Boulevard, Petersburg
performers TBA
“9/11 Fifteenth Anniversary: a Commemorative Concert”
program TBA
donations benefit Interfaith Adult Daycare
(804) 782-8240
http://covpcweb.org
Sept. 11 (3 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo–soprano
Min-Young Kim & Timothy Summers, violins
Melissa Reardon & Fitz Gary, violas
Thomas Kraines & Raphael Bell, cellos
Blair McMillen, piano
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Hindemith: Trumpet Sonata
Handel: arias TBA
Brahms: String Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18
$18-$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Richmond Piano Trio
works TBA by Beethoven, Boccherini, Ravel
free
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu
Sept. 14 (7:30 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 E. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Ute Gfrerer, vocalist
Adam Turner, piano
“A Sinful Night”
songs by Weill, Bernstein, Sondheim, others
$25
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org
Sept. 15 (8 p.m.)
Dickenson Theater, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Timothy Summers, violin
Raphael Bell, cello
Alasdair Beatson, piano
Matthew Gold, I-Jen Fang & Mike Truesdell, percussion
Debussy: “La Mer”
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: “Aura”
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
$18-$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 15 (7 p.m.)
Sept. 16 (8 p.m.)
Sept. 17 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Steven Reineke conducting
Colin Mochrie, comedian
“The Second City Guide to the Symphony”
$24-$99
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 16 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Jesús Silva Scholarship Concert:
performers TBA
program TBA
free
(804) 828-6776
http://arts.vcu.edu/music/events/
Sept. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond
Paley Music Festival:
Alexander Paley & Pei-Wen Chen, piano & piano four-hands
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin
Nicholas Finch, cello
James Ferree, French horn
Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons” (piano four-hands arrangement) (US premiere)
Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 38
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40
donation requested
(804) 665-9516
http://paleymusicfestival.org
Sept. 17 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Celia Hatton, viola
Khari Joyner & James Wilson, cellos
Boccherini: String Trio in G minor
Boccherini: Quartet in G major (“La Tiranna Spagnola”)
Boccherini: Quintet in D major (“Fandango”)
George Onslow: Quintet in C minor, Op. 38 (“The Bullet”)
free
(804) 646-7223
http://cmscva.org
Sept. 17 (7 p.m.)
Chester Village Green, 3524 Festival Park Plaza, Chesterfield County
Chesterfest:
Richmond Symphony
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
program TBA
free
(rain date: 5 p.m. Sept. 18)
(804) 405-5443
http://www.richmondsymphony.com
Sept. 17 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond
Paley Music Festival:
Alexander Paley & Pei-Wen Chen, piano & piano four-hands
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin
Nicholas Finch, cello
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata, Op. 119
Rachmaninoff: “Six Pieces,” Op. 11, for piano four-hands
Tchaikovsky: “The Seasons”
Arensky: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32
donation requested
(804) 665-9516
http://paleymusicfestival.org
Sept. 17 (8 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Rennolds Chamber Concerts:
Dover Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Britten: Quartet No. 2
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 2
$34
(804) 828-6776
http://arts.vcu.edu/music/events
Sept. 17 (7 p.m.)
Rhythm Hall, Dominion Arts Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Ute Gfrerer, vocalist
Adam Turner, piano
“A Sinful Night”
songs by Weill, Bernstein, Sondheim, others
$38-$50
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org
Sept. 17 (7 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Virginia Women’s Chorus
Katherine Mitchell directing
Benefit concert for survivors of sexual assault
program TBA
$10
(434) 924-3376
http://music.virginia.edu/events
Sept. 17 ( 8 p.m.)
Sept. 18 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Beethoven: “Coriolan” Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Brian Ganz, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
$28-$88
(301) 581-5100
http://www.strathmore.org
Sept. 18 (3 p.m.)
St. Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond
Paley Music Festival:
Alexander Paley & Pei-Wen Chen, piano & piano four-hands
Nicholas Finch, cello
Charles West, clarinet
Mozart: Sonata in F major, K. 497, for piano four-hands
Mozart-Zemlinsky: “The Magic Flute” Suite for piano four-hands
Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
donation requested
(804) 665-9516
hhhttp://paleymusicfestival.org
Sept. 18 (4 p.m.)
Second Presbyterian Church, 5 N. Fifth St., Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Celia Hatton, viola
Khari Joyner & James Wilson, cellos
Tony Manzo, double-bass
Carsten Schmidt, fortepiano
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“Trout”)
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
pre-concert talk by Wilson at 3:30 p.m.
$25
(804) 519-2098
http://cmscva.org
Sept. 18 (3 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Timothy Summers, violin
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Raphael Bell, cello
Alasdair Beatson, piano
Chausson: Pièce, Op. 39
Enescu: “Concert Piece”
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor
$18-$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Kaufman Theater, Chrysler Museum, 1 Memorial Place, Norfolk
Feldman Chamber Music Society:
Trio Solisti
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 27
Chausson: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
$30
(757) 552-1630
http://www.feldmanchambermusic.org
Sept. 20 (8 p.m.)
Williamsburg Library Theater, 515 Scotland St.
Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg:
Trio Solisti
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 27
Chausson: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
$15
(757) 220-0051
http://chambermusicwilliamsburg.org
Sept. 22 (8 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
Axel Strauss, violin
Raphael Bell, cello
Gloria Chien, piano
Martinů: Duo No. 1 for violin and cello
Enescu: Sonata No. 2, Op. 6, for violin and piano
Dvořák: Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65
$18-$25
(434) 295-5395
http://www.cvillechambermusic.org
Sept. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 24 (7 p.m.)
Sept. 26 (7 p.m.)
Sept. 28 (7:30 p.m.)
Sept. 30 (7:30 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington
Washington National Opera
James Gaffigan conducting
Mozart: “The Marriage of Figaro”
Lisette Oropesa (Susanna)
Ryan McKinny (Figaro)
Amanda Majeski (Countess Almaviva)
Joshua Hopkins (Count Almaviva)
Aleksandra Romano (Cherubino)
Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina)
Valeriano Lanchas (Doctor Bartolo)
Keith Jameson (Don Basilio)
Rexford Tester (Don Curzio)
Ariana Wehr (Barbarina)
Timothy J. Bruno (Antonio)
Peter Kazaras, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$25-$315
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Family Weekend Concert:
UR faculty and student performers TBA
program TBA
free
(804) 289-8980
http://modlin.richmond.edu
Sept. 23 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Sept. 24 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Sept. 25 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
JoAnn Falletta conducting
Borodin: “Polovtsian Dances”
Stravinsky: “Petrouchka”
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
Conrad Tao, piano
$25-$110
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org
Sept. 23 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Sept. 25 (3:30 p.m.)
Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center, Charlottesville High School, 1400 Melbourne Road
Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia
Kate Tamarkin conducting
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: “The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan”
Dan Welcher: “Prairie Light: Three Texas Water Colors of Georgia O’Keeffe”
Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade”
Daniel Sender, violin
$10-$45
(434) 924-3376
http://cvillesymphony.org
Sept. 24 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Villa-Lobos: “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 5
Julia Bullock, soprano
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
$35-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
http://www.strathmore.org
Sept. 25 (2 p.m.)
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Laurel Street at Floyd Avenue, Richmond
Brandon George, flute
Andy Lin, viola
Bridget Kibbey, harp
J.S. Bach (attr.): Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Takemitsu: “And then I knew t’was wind”
Harald Genzmer: Trio for flute, viola and harp
Ravel-Salzedo: Sonatine
free
(804) 359-5651
http://www.richmondcathedral.org/concerts.html
Sept. 25 (8 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Arts Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Richard Strauss: “Don Juan”
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
Enescu: “Romanian Rhapsody” No. 1
SOLD OUT
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com
Sept. 25 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach & Steven Reineke conducting
Dvořák: “Carnival” Overture
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor
Lang Lang, piano
Mervyn Warren: “We Are All America”
Brian McKnight & Nnenna Freelon, vocalists
Steven Ford Singers
Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir
$59-$125
(800) 444-1324
hhttp://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 29 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Virginia Symphony Pops
Ankush Bahl conducting
Marva Hicks, vocals
Byron Stripling, trumpet & vocals
“Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: a Musical Tribute”
$25-$100
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org
Sept. 29 (7 p.m.)
Sept. 30 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conducting
Elgar: “Falstaff”
Walton: “Henry V” Suite
Tchaikovsky: “Romeo and Juliet” Fantasy-Overture
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org
Sept. 29 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Lori Laitman: “UNSUNG” (premiere)
Stravinsky: “Symphony in Three Movements”
Orff: “Carmina burana”
Anna Christy, soprano
Matthew Plenk, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Peabody Children’s Chorus
$35-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
http://www.strathmore.org
Sept. 30 (6:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Arts Center, Sixth and Grace streets, Richmond
Rush Hour:
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting & speaking
Richard Strauss: “Don Juan”
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
$10-$50
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com
Sept. 30 (8 p.m.)
Harrison Opera House, 160 W. Virginia Beach Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Opera
Adam Turner conducting
Weill: “The Seven Deadly Sins”
Ute Gfrerer (Anna I)
Gabrielle Zucker (Anna II)
Bille Bruley & Stefan Barner, tenors
Lee Gregory, baritone
Christopher Morales, bass
in English with captions
Leoncavallo: “Pagliacci”
Clay Hilley (Canio)
Kelly Kaduce (Nedda)
Michael Chioldi (Tonio)
Stefan Barner (Beppe)
Lee Gregory (Silvio)
in Italian, English captions
Keturah Stickann, stage director
$32.73-$107.27
(866) 673-7282
http://vaopera.org
