National Symphony Orchestra

World Premiere Family Concert

April 02, 2023

Description

Jacqueline Woodson, Education Artist-In-Residence

Quinn Mason, Composer

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MASON This Is The Rope (World Primiere)

PRICE Dances in the Canebrakes

HOLLAND Motor City Dance Remix

ABELS Delights and Dances

Sound Health Fridays, Morning Sing

April 26, 2023

Description

Sound Health Fridays: Friday Morning sing

Featuring the City Choir of Washington, Erin Freeman, Artistic Director.

A pre-concert, interactive event focusing on singing and wellness. With a performance by The City Choir of Washington as well as an all-sing of favorites from Lift Every Voice and Sing to We'll Meet Again.

Friday, April 28 from 9:30am-11am in Studio J of The REACH

Beethoven & American Masters: George Walker & Beethoven’s First & Fifth Symphonies

May 12, 2023 - May 13, 2023

Description

Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
George Walker: Sinfonia No. 5 (Visions)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Famed for its iconic four-note opening, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is one of the most well-known and influential pieces of music. Imaginative, violent, and wide-ranging, the colossal crowd-pleaser immerses the audience in Beethoven’s state of mind with dramatic tension that builds to a passionate climax. The program also includes the Fifth Sinfonia by George Walker, a Washington, D.C. native and the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Concert

June 20, 2023 - June 21, 2023

Description

David Hamilton, Conductor
Cece Winans, Vocalist

JFK: The Last Speech

October 26, 2023

Description

Be among the first to hear this powerful new NSO co-commission, performed on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 speech at Amherst College. The program also includes Duke Ellington’s swinging trip to Jazz-age Harlem and John Adams’ Harmonielehre, inspired by the composer’s vision of an oil tanker blasting into space. Kevin John Edusei conducts, joined by Phylicia Rashad providing narration and sung by Katerina Burton, soprano.  

Handel's Messiah

December 15, 2022 - December 18, 2022

Description

Fabio Biondi, Conductor

Liv Redpath, soprano
Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Neal Davies, bass

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HANDEL Messiah