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Georgetown Voice Story on H Street
October 26, 2009
the Georgetown Voice revisits H Street three years after an initial story ran about development along the Corridor.
H Street Businesses on the Kojo Nnamdi Show!
October 1, 2009
The rapidly developing H Street Corridor owes much to the many new restaurants and bars who have chosen to open up here. WAMU talk show host Kojo Nnamdi speaks with a few who have made the commitment to H Street.
February 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Jazz at the Intersection: Grabielismo Productions’ Bemcha Latin Jazz Band
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Jazz at the Intersection, A festival kick-off event featuring a gumbo of Latin and Jazz styles and Afro-Cuban rhythms in a casual café atmosphere.
Bliss out to the sounds of the popular DC band, Bemcha, a Latin jazz ensemble that prides itself in sliding the feeling, rhythm and language of jazz into Latin standards as well as spicing up the standard of Jazz with Latin and afro-cuban rhythms. Imagine Salsa, Cha Cha, Bossa, Samba, Mambo, Rumba, Tango, Boleros and Jazz, all in one fantastic night. Start INTERSECTIONS out right with Bemcha.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Reverb: Harmony Crossing
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Harmony Crossing, an a cappella romp from gospel to “road-tunes” from DC’s Wammie-winning sextet.Find yourself at a musical crossroads when Reverb, the award-winning a cappella men’s sextet, takes the stage with an up-beat program of gospel, folk and original tunes designed to celebrate how our journeys run parallel, detour and collide. Enjoy songs about the roads we follow and what we find. Experience the sound that has earned WAMMIE awards for Best A Cappella group and Best Gospel/Inspirational group and opened the games with the national anthem for Nationals’, Wizards’ and Mystics’ fans. Hailed by the Washington Post as possessing “a winning mixture of vocal dexterity, impressive craftsmanship and heartfelt emotion,” Reverb will delight all ages with their heart and soul.
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Capital City Symphony and the Young Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Classical Connections, a concert highlighting connections among diverse classical composers – including Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington native George Walker.
Enjoy the intersection of professional and young performers when members of The Capital City Symphony join with the talented Young Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to celebrate America's musical legacy. The program will highlight the connections among African-American and European-American composers and feature pieces by George Walker, William Grant Still and Aaron Copeland. Conductor Victoria Gau will illuminate the musical intersections in lively conversation with the audience. Join in this unique collaboration of two musical organizations dedicated to making classical music accessible and enjoyable for all.
http://www.capitalcitysymphony.org/
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Jay Walkers at the Intersection: Jon Carroll, Tosin Aribisala & Michael Shereikis
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
A powerhouse of musical talent will convene on the Sprenger Stage in the world premier of Jay Walkers at the Intersection. Multiple Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Jon Carroll, named Musician and Songwriter of the year by the Washington Area Music Awards in 2007 and 2008, has asked his friends to come over and play to “take old rhythmic routes to new melodic destinations.” Carroll’s partners in exploration include Nigerian jazz artist, Tosin Aribisala, who was named a resident artist at the Music Center at Strathmore Hall and Michael Shereikis, Afro funk guitarist with the WAMMIE award-winning band, Chopteeth. A not-to-be-missed night for fans of the best of the DC music scene. Come back on Saturday to experience Jon Carroll & the Jay Walkers interactive music workshop and a rock-the-house dance party.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 9:30 PM; Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 9:30 PM
In Pursuit of Me: The Story of Christylez Bacon
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
In Pursuit of Me: The Story of Christylez Bacon, a world premier merging of music and theatre by one of Washington hip-hop’s rising stars.
Take a ride from Southeast DC to the top stages in town in a musical extravaganza created by DC Native Christylez Bacon and award-winning director Patrick Crowley. Live music, dance and drama collide in this progressive twist on the classic hero's journey. Sure to be as captivating as Christylez’s sold-out performances as a resident artist at the Music Center at Strathmore Hall, this “hip hopera” will be a boundary-breaking event you will not want to miss. Stay late on March 6th for a dance party featuring the versatile music of Christylez.
**Free Concert for Families by Christylez on February 20 at 1:30pm in the Atlas Lobby featuring songs from Banjo to Beatbox, his award-winning CD collaboration with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Northeast Senior Singers and the Delta Players
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Share in the wisdom and the joy of two vibrant performing groups comprised of seniors from the H Street community. The Northeast Senior Singers will perform a variety of well-known and well-loved traditional African-American songs, as well as highlights from Gershwin’s classic Porgy and Bess, featuring singer and conductor Charles Williams of the Levine School of Music. The Delta Players, under the direction of storyteller Charles Clyburn, will present a dramatized compilation of historical text, poetry, speeches and narratives that tell tales of fortitude and triumph of African Americans from the days of slavery to the election of Barack Obama. Come enjoy artists who through their art are young at heart.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Washington Performing Arts Society: Summer Academy Live!
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Summer Academy Live!, A concert featuring WPAS’ up and coming youth performers in Children of the Gospel, the Capital Jazz Project and Summer Steps with Step Afrika!
Help raise the roof with the over seventy students from the Washington Performing Arts Society's Summer Performing Arts Academy. A perfect opportunity to experience where gospel, jazz and step combine and collide, this program will delight the entire family. Enjoy the fruits of the expert instruction in instrumental music, voice and dance provided to DC area students through the programs of WPAS. Come celebrate the focus, discipline and teamwork of these talented young performers who joyfully embrace and carry forward these American musical traditions.
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 5:00 PM
Music Meets Film: Carmen at the Intersection
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
Music Meets Film: Carmen at the Intersection
Sunday, Feb 28 at 5:00 PM
A Carmen inspired serenade by soprano Anastasia Robinson, tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs and virtuoso pianist Carlos César Rodriguez paired with a screening of Carlos Sauro's film that resets the world's most famous opera in the passionate world of flamenco dance.
The LangTickets: $15
For audiences ages 12 and up.
Three musicians of extraordinary skill and international renown join forces to salute the romance and beauty of Carmen in an exquisite prelude to Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura’s stunning resetting Bizet’s opera. Soprano Anastasia L. Robinson, a frequent regional soloist in art song, oratorio and opera; Versatile tenor Peter Joshua Burroughs, a featured performer in numerous Washington National Opera productions, musical theatre and even Shakespeare; and Venezuelan-born Carlos César Rodríguez, a pianist with an extraordinary flair for Mozart and the romantics matched by his virtuosity in Hispanic and Spanish repertoire, will present a program of selections from Carmen and Zarzuela as well as the Carmen Fantasie. Saura’s Carmen (1983) spins a story with passionate dance as a Flamenco company reinterprets the opera as the choreographer (Antonio Gades) and his alluring leading lady (Laura del Sol) fall in love. Enjoy a night at the opera like never before!
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Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Tom Teasley: The Drum: Ancient Traditions Today
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
The Drum: Ancient Traditions Today, a journey from ancient times to the future with an internationally renowned world music percussionist.Discover the rhythms of the world with intersecting sounds and styles discovered around the globe by percussionist Tom Teasley. With instruments from far-flung Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, Teasley presents an interactive overview of percussive expression. Join a master musician as he goes back in time and then back to the future with a cross-pollination of ancient and new-fangled electronic instruments. Teasley’s enthusiasm for percussion has won him international prestige and critical acclaim, including tours across the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. Join him for a FREE pre-performance percussion workshop.
Percussion Workshop: Sunday, Feb 28 at 3:30pm
Lab II
FREE
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Children’s Chorus of Washington and Glorystar Children’s Chorus: Together We Sing
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
An afternoon of captivating choral music presented by the region’s finest young singers awaits you in this celebratory concert. The Chamber Choruses of both the Children’s Chorus of Washington, hailed internationally for its professionalism and artistry, and the Glorystar Children’s Chorus, a rising star in the youth choral world, will present repertoire designed to delight young and old. The Washington Post declared, "In every aspect, CCW easily rivals the finest children's choirs anywhere -- even Austria's Vienna Choir Boys." And Glorystar includes a White House performance in its long list of accomplishments. Experience for yourself the exquisite choral sounds soon to be shared by these stellar choruses on tour in Africa and Austria.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Imani: New Dawn
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
New Dawn, a world music voyage with an exquisite DC-based jazz singer and her trio dubbed by the Washington Post as “the answer to jazz fans’ prayers.”
Sooth your soul with the sounds of Imani, who has been hailed as “an espresso-voiced song-weaver of rich, earthy texture and stunning vibrancy.” Relax into the groove of this DC-based favorite who has charmed audiences at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Curaçao Jazz Festival, San Antonio Jazz Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Sink into songs from the golden age of jazz, original compositions, reinterpretations of well-loved standards and contemporary pop classics. Imani and her trio create a warm energy that captivates and connects with all audiences.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Tom Chapin: In Concert
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival
In Concert, a concert with this legendary folk singer celebrating the intersection of music and social change.Dubbed “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music” by the New York Times, Tom Chapin is a beloved singer-songwriter, storyteller and multi-instrumentalist whose music spans styles and generations. A three-time Grammy winner, Tom has entertained and enlightened audiences of all ages for more than thirty years with life-affirming original songs told in a sophisticated array of musical styles. Tom has also been at the political epicenter of the folk music world – a strong voice and a positive presence in a precarious world. A favorite satirical songwriter for NPR’s Morning Edition, Tom brings his wit and wisdom to INTERSECTIONS in a one-of-a-kind concert featuring a guest gospel choir that celebrates the power of music in working for change in the world.
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8PM; Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8PM; Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 3PM
Feelin’ Groovy: 1960’s Cabaret Lounge
Congressional Chorus
Join the Congressional Chorus in re-living the era that gave us the eclectic mix of Motown and the Beatles, Broadway hits from Camelot to Hair, plaintive protest songs from Dylan and Baez, and the crooning of Sinatra.
March 19, 2010 - 7:30 PM
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Levine School of Music
March 21, 2010 - 5 PM
Symphony Lounge
Capital City Symphony
The Tarot, Charlie Barnett
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Spring Musical
American Youth Chorus
Two one-act musicals, complete with costumes and choreography, showcase the high-energy talent of these young performers from across the Washington area.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:15 Lecture/8:00 Performance
DAFNIS PRIETO’S ABSOLUTE QUINTET
On LOCation - Library of Congress Concert Series
Saturday, May 8, 2010 8:00 PM
SIMON SHAHEEN & QANTARA
On LOCation - Library of Congress Concert Series
May 16, 2010 - 5 PM
Concerto, Encore! Johansen Young Artist
Capital City Symphony
Walton, Viola Concerto
Matthew Lipman, viola
Johansen International String Competition Winner
May 22, 2010
Sancho Pança, Gouverneur dans l'Isle de Barataria
Opera Lafayette
Sancho Pança, Gouverneur dans l'Isle de Barataria
Philidor's Sancho Pança, Gouverneur dans l'Isle de Barataria is a French comic opera in which a cast of hilarious characters plots to cure Sancho of his delusions of grandeur. This opera, highly popular in Europe in its time, will have its first showing in the United States, 247 years after it was written. This American premiere performance will be semi-staged, and features the brilliant young baritone Darren Perry in the title role. Original script in English by Nick Olcott, based on the comedy by Poinsinet, with stage direction by Catherine Turocy. Sung in French with English translations and dialogue.
Running time: 80 minutes
Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:15 Lecture/8:00 Performance
URI CAINE TRIO
On LOCation - Library of Congress Concert Series
Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 8:00 PM
New Music for a New Age
The Washington Chorus
The Washington Chorus introduces the music of young American composer, Nico Muhly in this year's New Music for a New Age series. Born in Vermont in 1981, Nico has already built an impressive career collaborating with classical giants like Phillip Glass and John Corigliano, pop stars Björk and Bonnie "Prince" Billy and has written several film scores including the recent success, The Reader. The program includes an array of music written for a capella choir, chamber music for various instrumentation and chorus with a small orchestra which will feature the composer Nico Muhly himself and TWC's Music Director, Julian Wachner, on the piano. The music will be presented along with visual images of famed illustrator and author Maira Kalman's artwork. Maira's book "Principles of Uncertainty", a collection of her illustrated blog for The New York Times, was the source of inspiration for Nico to write a song cycle which will be featured in the program.
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