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Lyric Opera Virginia, the company launched last year by Peter Mark after his dismissal from Virginia Opera, has put off the opening production of its second season, a “grand opera” staging of Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West,” apparently because of financial constraints.

The Puccini, which was to have been presented next month, has been rescheduled for September 2013. LOV’s two other 2012-13 productions, the Broadway musical “Camelot” in January and a “jewel-box” (truncated) version of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” in April, are still scheduled for performances in Virginia Beach, Richmond and Newport News.

Interviewed by Teresa Annas of The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk), Joseph Walsh, LOV’s general director, was not specific about the company’s financial condition, but observed that “[i]t’s not easy to start a new arts organization in this economy” . . .

http://hamptonroads.com/2012/08/lyric-opera-postpones-opening-show-due-finances
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Aug. 19, Bon Air Presbyterian Church

The Hungarian Erno Dohnányi is one of those composers who fell through the cracks. A romantic whose life and career coincided with the rise of modernism, Dohnányi is typically cast as the
backward-looking contemporary of Bela Bartók and Zoltan Kodály; while they blazed new harmonic and stylistic trails and established a Hungarian musical identity, Dohnányi recycled the Germanic idioms of Brahms and Wagner (and was known for most of his life by the German version of his name, Ernst von Dohnányi).

The Richmond Chamber Players put Dohnányi’s reputation to the test by reviving one of his most substantial works, the Sextet (1935) for piano, strings and winds. Sure enough, the piece echoes earlier times – who would guess that it’s contemporaneous with Berg’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony? – and speaks in a decidedly Teutonic accent when, as in its first movement, it aspires to “serious” expression and form. A less dated Dohnányi emerges in the piece’s later and lighter movements, especially the percolating finale, which evoke the phrasing and rhythms of folk and popular music.

In this performance, pianist John Walter, violinist Susy Yim, violist Stephen Schmidt, cellist Neal Cary, clarinetist David Niethamer and French horn player James Ferree nicely conveyed the Brahmsian weight of the first movement and the Wagnerian stream-of-melodic-consciousness of the intermezzo. Ferree, solo and in combination with Niethamer and Walter, tonally “bronzed” these sections. Walter and the string players were the animators and colorists of the brief allegro con sentimento third movement and finale. It was a persuasive reading of a not entirely persuasive work.

Late-late-romantics who wrote memorable tunes – Rachmaninoff, Puccini, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Erich Korngold – thrived. Those less gifted in spinning melody, like Dohnányi, have sunk into obscurity.

This third program of the Chamber Players’ Interlude 2012 concerts opened with two sharply contrasting sets of miniatures: Schumann’s “Three Romances,” Op. 94, in the version for oboe and piano, and Karel Husa’s “Évocations de Slovaquie” for clarinet, viola and piano.

Oboist Gustav Highstein, with discreet but expressive and spontaneous-sounding support from pianist Walter, played up the yearning qualities of the Schumann romances in his phrasing, and their bittersweet character in his lyrical but focused tone.

Clarinetist Niethamer was the leading voice in the Husa set, from the lengthy soliloquy launching “The Mountains” to the almost squealing frenzy of the concluding dance. Violist Schmidt got in some enticingly colorful and crunchy licks in the Husa.

The Richmond Chamber Players’ Interlude 2012 series concludes with a program of Mozart, Copland, Rick Sowash and William Grant Still at 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road. Tickets: $18. Details: (804) 272-7514.
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Aug. 5, Bon Air Presbyterian Church

The Richmond Chamber Players opened their 2012 Interlude series with a program of rarely performed works from the early 20th century. Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Erwin Schulhoff and Charles M. Loeffler made for an enticing mix of styles and instrumental configurations – but not, apparently, enough enticement to attract a large audience.

Tenor Tracey Welborn, who sang Vaughan Williams’ “Ten Blake Songs” in the Chamber Players’ 2010 series, returned to perform the composer’s earlier, better-known song cycle “On Wenlock Edge.” A 1909 setting of six poems from A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad,” a somber collection meditating on the dead of the Boer War – and, from our latter-day perspective, anticipating the much greater carnage of World War I – the set vocally veers between almost whispered nostalgia and near-operatic bursts of passion, pain and yearning.

Welborn’s delivery of the Housman verses was spot-on emotionally, and well-communicated through excellent diction and expressive judgment. His contrast of voices was especially telling in “Is my team ploughing.” The accompanying ensemble – pianist John Walter, violinists Susy Yim and Catherine Cary, violist Stephen Schmidt and cellist Neal Cary – overbalanced Welborn in the early going, but fairly quickly adjusted its projection to complement the singer.

The string players opened the program with “Five Pieces for String Quartet” (1923) by Schulhoff, a Czech-German Jew who was one of the more venturesome young composers of Central Europe in the years between the world wars. After the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia, Schulhoff was interned in a concentration camp, where he died in 1942.

His “Five Pieces” is a set of five dance movements evoking the baroque suite but stylistically and expressively couched in the language of moderns such as Stravinsky and Bartók; like much of the art-music of the 1920s, the set is enlivened by the rhythms and accents of jazz and popular dances such as the tango.

It sounds to be challenging fun for string musicians. These musicians met its challenges and appeared to be enjoying themselves – especially Schmidt, whose viola was the rhythmic driver and the source of a lot of Schulhoff’s more interesting voicings and tone colors.

Pianist Walter (artistic director of the ensemble) was joined by violist Schmidt and oboist Gustav Highstein in “Two Rhapsodies” (1901) by Loeffler, an Alsatian violinist (assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony for many years) who became the most prominent American composer influenced by French impressionism.

In these two longish tone poems, inspired by “The Pond” and “The Bagpipe” by the French symbolist poet Maurice Rollinar, the impressions are dark, at times almost claustrophobic, thanks in part to the rather spooky subjects and atmospherics of the poems (read by Walter before the performance), and in part to scoring in which the piano’s lower registers reinforce the dusky hue of the viola.

The form (or formlessness) of the rhapsody, the language of impressionism and the expressive inclinations of composers active around the turn of the 20th century, are an invitation to garrulous, meandering writing. Loeffler’s rhapsodies overwork their materials and moods, and overstay their welcome.

Walter, Schmidt and Highstein played the pieces with concentration and pointed expressiveness. The bagpipe effects produced by the oboe and viola were tangy ear candy.

The Richmond Chamber Players Interlude 2012 series continues, with works by Beethoven, Dvorák and Janácek, at 3 p.m. Aug. 12 at Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road. Tickets: $18. Details: (804) 272-7514.
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Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony (No. 3) and “Egmont” Overture and Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” in a concert at 7:30 p.m. BST (2:30 p.m. EDT)
June 23 at Royal Festival Hall in London.

The Guardian is live-streaming the performance here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/interactive/2012/jun/21/simon-bolivar-symphony-orchestra-live-stream

A June 26 London concert by Dudamel and the Bolívar also can be seen and heard online on the website of the British newspaper.
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“The Tao of Mohammed Ali (a Ghost Story)” by the Richmond-based composer D.J. Sparr and librettist Davis Miller will be introduced in June 2013 by the Washington National Opera as part of its American Opera Initiative.

The hour-long work tells the story of a reporter’s first encounter with the great boxer, which proves to be a transformative experience. A fully staged performance will be presented in the Terrace Theater of Washington’s Kennedy Center, with a cast and creative team to be named later. Open workshops will be held during the opera’s process of development.

In November, the American Opera Initiative will stage performances of three 20-minute operas by young composers and librettists. They, as well as Sparr and Miller, will be mentored by Jake Heggie, composer of “Dead Man Walking” and “Moby-Dick;” librettist Mark Campbell, who provided the texts for Ricky Ian Gordon’s Civil War song cycle “Rappahannock County” and Kevin Puts’ opera “Silent Night,” winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for music; and Anne Manson, who conducts the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and has led many performances of contemporary opera.

Conductor Robert Wood of UrbanArias also will work with the composers and librettists during workshops in October. WNO Artistic Advisor Francesca Zambello will mentor directors and designers for the four operas.

Sparr, a former composer-in-residence with the Richmond Symphony’s Education and Community Engagement program, currently is Young American Composer-in-Residence with the California Symphony Orchestra. His wife, Kimberly Sparr, is the Richmond Symphony’s assistant principal violist.
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A fall Philip Glass Festival, a return engagement by the Takács Quartet for a two-concert cycle of the six Bartók string quartets, the local debut of pianist Simone Dinnerstein in a recital centered on Bach and a homecoming for baritone Matthew Worth highlight the 2012-13 season of the Modlin Arts Center at the University of Richmond.

In its ninth season in residence at UR, the new-music sextet eighth blackbird will perform in the first concert of the Glass festival, sample the works of the highly regarded contemporary composer Nico Muhly, participate in the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival and a John Cage centennial concert, and give musical demonstrations during UR’s Neumann Lecture on Music, “Music and the Brain,” by Craig Wright of Yale University.

Glass, whose 75th birthday is being celebrated worldwide this year, will speak on “Collaboration and the Creative Process” and perform with violinist Tim Fain. The Glass festival also will feature screenings of “Koyaanisqatsi” and Jean Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast,” for which Glass wrote musical scores, and Scott Hicks’ documentary “Glass: a Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts.”


Worth, a UR alumnus (class of 2000) whose opera career has included two starring roles with Virginia Opera in recent seasons, will return for a recital of American theater and art songs.

Other classical attractions in the coming Modlin season include the Shanghai Quartet with violist Paul Neubauer and a first Richmond performance by France’s celebrated Ebène Quartet.

Artists from the UR Music Department and guests will present two programs marking the centenary of the pioneering American modernist and musical experimenter John Cage, performances of Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Waltzes” and Schubert’s “Die Winterreise,” an all-American program by the UR Symphony Orchestra featuring pianist Charles Staples playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and an Earth Day outdoor performance of John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit” (“Stone Marker”) for 99 percussionists.

Jazz, folk and world-music performers booked for 2012-13 include singer Judy Collins, the Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura, a “Retro Roots Tour” starring Virginia bluegrass master Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys, jazz bassist Ben Williams and Sound Effect, a “Spirituals to Funk” show by New Orleans pianist-singer Dr. John and the Blind Boys of Alabama, the pipes and drums of Scotland’s Black Watch 3rd Batallion and a reunion of pop singer-guitarist John Sebastian and folk-jazz mandolinist David Grisman.

A stellar dance lineup will be headlined by the Mark Morris Dance Group, Jessica Lang Dance and the Russian National Ballet in Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty.”

Among the coming season’s touring theatrical attractions are L.A. Theatre Works’ production of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” “Cirque Chinois” by the National Circus of the People’s Republic of China, The Acting Company’s production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” and the martial arts ballet of the Shaolin Warriors.

For a brochure detailing the season and ticket-subscription information, call the Modlin Center box office at (804) 289-8980 or visit http://www.modlin.richmond.edu/

Attractions and single-ticket prices in the 2012-13 Modlin Center season:

Sept. 6 (2 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Live Telecast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” ($14).

Sept. 9 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Del McCoury Band with Chatham County Line ($38).

Sept. 10 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Anne O’Byrne, soprano; Jennifer Cable, mezzo-soprano; Reginald Potts, tenor; Christopher Lindbloom, bass; Paul Hanson & Joanne Kong, pianos. Brahms: “Liebeslieder Waltzes” (free).

Sept. 12 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Lecture: Jessica Lang ($15).

Sept. 14 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Jessica Lang Dance ($36).

Sept. 16 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Philip Glass Festival: Film: Scott Hicks’ “Glass: a Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts” ($5).

Sept. 19 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Philip Glass Festival: eighth blackbird. Glass: “Arabesque in memorium,” “Einstein on the Beach” (excerpt), “Mad Rush;” Derek Bermel: “Tied Shifts;” Tom Johnson: “Counting Duets;” Nico Muhly: “Doublespeak;” John Cage: “Living Room Music;” Mayke Nas: “Anyone can do it;” Andy Akiho: “erase” ($20).

Sept. 21 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Red Baraat ($20).

Sept. 22 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Re-broadcast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” ($14).

Sept. 23 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Philip Glass Festival. Film: “Koyaanisqatsi” ($5).

Sept. 28 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Schola Cantorum and Women’s Chorale. Family Weekend Concert, program TBA (free).

Oct. 1 (7 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Philip Glass Festival: Film: Jean Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast” ($5).

Oct. 4 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Philip Glass Festival: Lecture by Philip Glass: “Collaboration and the Creative Process” ($34).

Oct. 4-6 (7:30 p.m.), Oct. 7 (2 p.m., Cousins Studio Theater) – UR Theater in “blu” ($15).

Oct. 5 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Philip Glass Festival: Philip Glass, keyboards, and Tim Fain, violin. Works by Glass TBA ($38).

Oct. 11 (2 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Telecast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Last of the Haussmans” ($14).

Oct. 12 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Re-broadcast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Last of the Haussmans” ($14).

Oct. 17 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – David Esleck Trio. Jazz program TBA (free).

Oct. 18 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – National Circus of the People’s Republic of China in “Cirque Chnois” ($36).

Oct. 19 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Mike Birbiglia in “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” ($34).

Oct. 21 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Buika ($34).

Oct. 24 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – L.A. Theatre Works in “Pride and Prejudice” ($36).

Oct. 26 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Simone Dinnerstein, piano. Bach: partitas Nos. 1 and 2; Schumann: “Kinderszenen;” Chopin: Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2; Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2; Felsenfeld: “The Cohen Variations” ($36).

Oct. 28 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Schola Cantorum and Women’s Chorale, Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing. American works TBA (free).

Nov. 2-3 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival: eighth blackbird, other artists TBA. Programs TBA (free).

Nov. 4 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Family Arts Day, featuring eighth blackbird in Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals” ($15).

Nov. 5 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele ($32).

Nov. 8 (7:30 p.m., Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage) – Shaolin Warriors ($30-$38).

Nov. 11 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Wind Ensemble, David Niethamer directing. Gordon Jacobs: “William Byrd Suite;” other works TBA (free).

Nov. 13 (7:30 p.m., Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage) – “Spirituals to Funk,” starring Dr. John and The Blind Boys of Alabama ($34-$42).

Nov. 15 (2 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Telecast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “Timon of Athens” ($14).

Nov. 15-17 (7:30 p.m.), Nov. 18 (2 p.m., Cousins Studio Theater) – UR Theater in “The Learned Ladies” ($15).

Nov. 16 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Re-broadcast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “Timon of Athens” ($14).

Nov. 18 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Global Sounds, Andrew McGraw & Paul Yoon directing (free).

Nov. 19 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Jazz Ensemble and Contemporary Combos, Mike Davison directing (free).

Nov. 26 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Anna Kijanowska, piano. Works TBA by Szymanowski, Chopin, Lei Liang, others (free).

Nov. 28 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Philadanco ($36).

Nov. 30 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent holiday bluegrass concert ($36).

Dec. 2 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Julian Lage Group. Jazz program TBA ($32).

Dec. 3 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Chamber Ensembles. Program TBA (free).

Dec. 5 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Kordzaia conducting. Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 (first movement) (Richuan Hu, piano); Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (free).

Dec. 6 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Jazz Ensemble, Mike Davison directing, with guest artists TBA. “From the Big Easy to the Big Apple: a Celebration of the Manbo” (free).

Dec. 9 (5 and 8 p.m., Cannon Memorial Chapel) – UR Schola Cantorum and Women’s Chorale, Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing. 39th Annual Christmas Candlelight Services (free).

Jan. 17 (2 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Telecast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Count of Monte Cristo” ($14).

Jan. 17-18 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Mark Morris Dance Group ($40).

Jan. 19 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Re-broadcast: Royal National Theatre, London, in “The Count of Monte Cristo” ($14).

Jan. 20 (1 and 3 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Light Wire Theatre and Corbian Visual Arts and Dance in “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Tortoise and the Hare” ($15).

Jan. 23 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Paul Hanson, piano. Scriabin: Sonata No. 6; Schoenberg: “Five Pieces,” Op. 23; Ives: “Concord” Sonata (free).

Jan. 24 (7:30 p.m., Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage) – Pipes and Drums of The Black Watch 3rd Batallion with The Royal Regiments of Scotland and The Band of the Scots Guard ($30-$38).

Jan. 27 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Ben Williams and Sound Effect. Jazz program TBA ($20).

Jan. 30 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Paco Peña, guitar, in “Flamenco Viva” ($36).

Feb 3 (3 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Richard Becker, piano. Works TBA by Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, others (free).

Feb 4 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – James Weaver, baritone, and Joanne Kong, piano. Schubert: “Die Winterreise” (free).

Feb. 6 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – “Live at Birdland,” featuring The Birdland Big Band ($32).

Feb. 11 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Matthew Worth, baritone. Works by Barber, Bernstein, Blitzstein, other American composers ($34).

Feb. 13 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – “Retro Roots Tour,” starring Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys with The Seldom Scene and Jim Lauderdale ($36).

Feb. 14-16 (7:30 p.m.), Feb. 17 (2 p.m.) – UR Theater in “Production Studies III Showcase” (free; tickets required).

Feb. 18 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Neumann Lecture on Music: “Music and the Brain” by Craig Wright with eighth blackbird (free).

Feb. 24 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Shanghai Quartet with Paul Neubauer, viola. Brahms: Quintet in G major, Op. 111; other works TBA ($34).

March 1 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Judy Collins ($40).

March 1-2 (7:30 p.m.), March 3 (2 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – University Dancers in 28th annual spring concert ($15).

March 7-8 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Black Grace Dance Company ($40).

March 14-15 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Russian National Ballet in “The Sleeping Beauty” ($40).

March 16 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Danú ($36).

March 20 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – eighth blackbird with composer Nico Muhly. Works by Muhly, others TBA ($20).

March 21 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – “John Cage Centennial Concerts I,” with eighth blackbird, UR music, art, art history, theater, dance department members (free).

March 22-23 (7:30 p.m.), March 24 (2 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – Les 7 Doigts de la Main in “PSY” ($38).

March 24 (3 p.m.), Camp Concert Hall) – Richard Becker & Doris Wylee-Becker, pianos. Works TBA by Schubert, Brahms, Becker (free).

March 27 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – “John Cage Centennial Concerts II.” Paul Hanson, prepared piano. Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (free).

March 30 (7:30 p.m., Rhythm Hall, Richmond CenterStage) – “Salsa Mania,” featuring S.Y.O.T.O.S. and UR Jazz Ensemble and Contemporary Combos, Mike Davison directing ($17).

April 3 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Ana Moura ($34).

April 7 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Takács Quartet. Bartók: quartets Nos. 1, 3 and 5 ($38).

April 8 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Takács Quartet. Bartók: quartets Nos. 2, 4 and 6 ($38).

April 10 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Kordzaia conducting. Gershwin: ‘Rhapsody in Blue” (Charles Staples, piano); Bernstein: “Candide” Overture; other American works TBA (free).

April 13 (3 p.m., Jenkins Greek Theater) – Global Sounds, Andrew McGraw & Paul Yoon directing (free).

April 14 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Schola Cantorum and Women’s Chorale, Jeffrey Riehl & David Pedersen directing. Works TBA from the court of Louis XIV (free).

April 15 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Jazz Ensemble and Contemporary Combos, Mike Davison directing (free).

April 17 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Wind Ensemble, David Niethamer directing, with student soloists TBA. Program TBA (free).

April 18-20 (7:30 p.m.), April 20-21 (2 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – “Spring Awakening,” directed by Dorothy Holland ($15).

April 19 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – Ebène Quartet. Program TBA ($34).

April 21 (3 p.m., outdoor location TBA) – Earth Day concert. John Luther Adams: “Inuksuit” (“Stone Marker”) for 99 percussionists (performers TBA) (free).

April 22 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – UR Chamber Ensembles. Program TBA (free).

April 23 (7:30 p.m., Jepson Theatre) – The Acting Company in “Of Mice and Men” ($36).

April 27 (7:30 p.m., Camp Concert Hall) – John Sebastian and David Grisman ($36).
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The Guardian will present live streams of six opera performances from the Glyndebourne summer festival, beginning with Janácek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen,” at 6:30 p.m. BST (1:30 p.m. EDT) June 10. You can watch it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/interactive/2012/jun/08/the-cunning-little-vixen-watch-live

The video stream remains functional until June 22.
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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

Festivities: Classical summer festivals tend to mix the familiar and unknown, substantive and diverting,
grand-scale and intimate, formal and casual – sometimes in the same performance. All those qualities, even a few of those “sometimes” occasions, can be found in Virginia’s music festivals and summer venues this season. Bach’s Mass in B minor (Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, June 10) shares the airspace with Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man” (Ash Lawn Opera, July 29-Aug. 7), Bizet’s “Carmen” (Castleton Festival, June 30-July 8) with Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” (Wolf Trap Opera Company, Aug. 3-11). . . . There’s Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony in the chamber arrangement (!) made for Arnold Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances (Wintergreen Festival, July 7-8); Peter Schickele’s “Shleptet” (Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival, June 7); two pairings within a single week of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Violin Sonata and Janácek’s First String Quartet, subtitled “Kreutzer Sonata” (Richmond Chamber Players, Aug. 12; Garth Newel Chamber Players, Aug. 18); Handel’s “Zadok the Priest” and Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King” on the same program (Staunton Music Festival, Aug. 22); and more than one might expect in the way of contemporary music, including the premiere of Paul Moravec’s Piano Quartet (Garth Newel, July 21). Good thing gas prices have fallen.


June 1 (8 p.m.)
lawn of Chrysler Museum, 245 W. Olney Road, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony
Benjamin Rous conducting
Tchaikovsky: “1812 Overture”
works TBA by Beethoven, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, others
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

June 1 (8 p.m.)
June 2 (2 and 8 p.m.)
June 3 (2 and 8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Rodgers & Hammerstein: “South Pacific”
national touring company cast TBA
$20-$80
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

June 1 (8 p.m.)
June 2 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Sean Shepherd: “Blue Blazes”
Richard Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/

June 2 (7 p.m.)
Pocahontas State Park, Route 655 (Beach Road), Chesterfield
Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
conductor TBA
program TBA
free
(804) 788-4717
http://www.richmondsymphony.com/

June 2 (8 p.m.)
Main Street off Walter Reed Way, Gloucester
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
program TBA
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

June 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Washington Men’s Camerata
Frank Albinder directing
“Guys and Dolls: Music for Men’s Chorus by Women Composers”
works TBA by Alice Parker, Gwenyth Walker, Eleanor Daley, Jennifer Higdon, others
$30
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/

June 3 (4 p.m.)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 520 N. Boulevard, Richmond
Richmond Choral Society
Markus Compton directing
Eric Lyttle, piano
Jason Jenkins, bass
Keith Willingham, drums
“Sentimental Journey II”
popular works TBA from the 1920s-’40s
$12 in advance, $15 at door
(804) 353-9582
http://www.richmondchoralsociety.org/

June 4 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
John Hicks, organ
guest artists TBA
Jacob Nyvall: Toccata and Fugue in C minor
Federik Sixten: “Canticle of the Sun”
Yngve Skold: Passacaglia, Op. 38
Norman Coke-Jephcott: “Improvisation on an Irish Air”
Hovhaness: “Prayer of St. Gregory”
Gary A. Cornell: “”Joyous Procession”
“A Tribute to Duke Ellington”
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/

June 5 (7:30 p.m.)
Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Arts Center, Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Virginia Arts Festival:
John Duffy Composers Institute
“Masterworks in the Making: Concert of Premieres”
contemporary works TBA
free
free orchestra reading of new works, 7:30 p.m. June 4, Chandler Hall
(757) 282-2822
http://www.virginiaartsfest.com/

June 5 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Muir String Quartet
other artists TBA
Saint-Saëns: “Suite on Danish and Russian Airs”
Mozart: Piano Quintet
Copland: “Appalachian Spring”
Kirk Wilke, guest conductor
pre-concert recital by Luke Gray, violin
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/

June 6 (7:30 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 201 Brambleton Ave., Norfolk
Virginia Arts Festival Opsail concert:
Virginia Symphony
Rob Fisher conducting
Tari Kelly & Robert Creighton, vocalists
Rodgers: “Victory at Sea” (excerpts)
Rodgers: “South Pacific” (selections)
other works TBA
$20-$65
(757) 282-2822
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

June 7 (7:30 p.m.)
31st Street Stage, Virginia Beach
Symphony by the Sea:
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
pops program TBA
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

June 7 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Muir String Quartet
other artists TBA
Bach: Suite in B minor, BWV 1067
Peter Schickele: “Schleptet”
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“Trout”)
pre-concert recital by Chris Yang, piano
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/

June 7 (7 p.m.)
June 8 (8 p.m.)
June 9 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Berlioz: “Roman Carnival” Overture
Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor
Claudio Bohórquez, cello
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/

June 8 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Muir String Quartet
other artists TBA
Mozart: Duo for bassoon and cello
Joan Tower: Flute Quintet
Schumann: Piano Quintet
pre-concert recital by Andrew Liang, piano
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/

June 9 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
18th Street Singers
Benjamin Olinsky directing
“An Evening of Roses”
Eric Whitacre: “Five Hebrew Love Songs”
Morten Lauridsen: “Six Firesongs”
works TBA by Beethoven, Schubert, others
$15-$22
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/

June 9 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Kevin Puts: Symphony No. 4 (“From Mission San Juan Bautista”)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Stravinsky: “Le sacre du printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”)
$38-$98
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
http://www.strathmore.org/

June 10 (3 p.m.)
First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St., Charlottesville
Fitz Gary, viola
Avery Waite, cello
Solon Gordon, piano
works TBA by Brahms, others
donation of money or food requested; benefits Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
(434) 296-7131

June 10 (3 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Chamber Chorus & Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Bach: Mass in B minor
Madeline Bender, soprano
Heidi Kurtz, mezzo-soprano
Joel Ross, tenor
James Richardson, baritone
Shannon Kiser, bass
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach

June 13 (7 p.m.)
St. James's Episcopal Church, 1205 W. Franklin St., Richmond
Welcome Summer Recital Series:
Anne O'Byrne, soprano
David Fisk, piano
works TBA by Purcell, Puccini, Debussy; Irish ballads, show tunes
donations benefit Central Virginia Foodbank
(804) 355-1779
www.doers.org/music

June 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Bach-Stokowski: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
Bach-Respighi: Andante from “Three Chorale Preludes”
Respighi: “Ancient Airs and Dances” Suite No. 2
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”)
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach

June 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Dvorák: “Czech Suite”
Eugene Friesen: “Glory” (premiere)
Festival Chorus
Dvorák: “Silent Woods”
Eugene Friesen, cello
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach

June 17 (6 p.m.)
The Gardens at Sunday Park, Brandermill, 4602 Millridge Parkway, Midlothian
Richmond Philharmonic
Robert Mirakian conducting
“RPO’s Salute to Dad”
light classics, show tunes, patriotic pieces TBA
free
(804) 673-7400
http://www.richmondphilharmonic.org/

June 17 (10 a.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Chorus & Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
“Lepizig Service”
Manfredi: Concerto in D major for two trumpets and orchestra
Judith Saxon & Susan Messersmith, trumpets
Bach: Cantata 34, “O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe”
Heidi Kurtz, mezzo-soprano
Marvin Mills, organ
Michael A. King, homilist
donation accepted
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach

June 20 (7 p.m.)
St. James's Episcopal Church, 1205 W. Franklin St., Richmond
Welcome Summer Recital Series:
Gustav Highstein, oboe
Jared Davis, clarinet
Martin Gordon, bassoon
Hanchien Lee, piano
works TBA by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc
donation benefits St. James's Children's Center
(804) 355-1779
http://www.doers.org/

June 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
“An Italian Extravaganza”
works TBA by Puccini, Verdi, Respighi, Rossini
$20-$120
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

June 23 (7 p.m.)
June 29 (7:30 p.m.)
July 1 (2 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Festival Opera Company
Lorin Maazel conducting
Rossini: “The Barber of Seville”
cast TBA
$20-$120
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

June 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
The Washington Chorus
Julian Wachner directing
Paola Prestini: “Oceanic Verses”
Helga Davis, vocalist-improviser
Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano
Claudio Prima, folk singer
Chris Burchett, baritone
Ali Hossaini, film-maker
S. Katy Tucker, video designer
$25
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/

June 24 (2 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
Máximo Flügelman: Cello Concerto
Inbal Segev, cello
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
$20-$120
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

June 28 (8 p.m.)
Hylton Arts Center, George Mason University, Manassas
Castleton Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
“Gershwin and Company: an All-American Evening”
Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
Kevin Cole, piano
other works TBA
$30-$60
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

June 29 (8 p.m.)
June 30 (8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
Gilbert & Sullivan: “The Pirates of Penzance”
$12-$50
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

June 29 (8 p.m.)
July 1 (3 p.m.)
July 5 (8 p.m.)
July 7 (7 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Wolf Trap Opera Company
Andrew Bisantz conducting
Mozart: “Don Giovanni”
Craig Irvin/Ryan Kuster (Don Giovanni/Leporello)
Marcy Stonikas (Donna Anna)
Olivia Vote (Donna Elvira)
Andrea Carroll (Zerlina)
Aaron Sorensen (Masetto)
Craig Colclough (Commendatore)
Tomer Zvulun, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$32-$85
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

June 30 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aaron Berofsky & Teresa Ling, violins
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Arthur Foote: Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23
Astor Piazzolla: “Seasons”
Schumann: Piano Quintet
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

June 30 (7 p.m.)
July 6 (7:30 p.m.)
July 8 (2 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Festival Opera Company
Lorin Maazel conducting
Bizet: “Carmen”
cast TBA
$20-$120
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 1 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aaron Berofsky & Teresa Ling, violins
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33, No. 2 (“Joke”)
Prokofiev: “Sarcasms” for piano
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 3 (7:30 p.m.)
31st Street Stage, Virginia Beach
Symphony by the Sea:
Virginia Symphony
JoAnn Falletta conducting
patriotic works TBA
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

July 7 (6 p.m.)
July 8 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Chamber Players
Larry Alan Smith conducting
Bruckner-Stein: Symphony No. 7 (chamber arr.)
$30
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 7 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Richard Faria, clarinet
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 11
Leonard Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Roberto Sierra: “Cinco Bocetos” for solo clarinet
Arensky: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 32
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 7 (2 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Festival Orchestra & Chorus
Lorin Maazel & Rafael Payare conducting
Beethoven: “Leonore” Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”)
soloists TBA
$20-$120
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 7 (8 p.m.)
Hylton Arts Center, George Mason University, Manassas
Castleton Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conducting
Puccini: “La Bohème” (concert presentation)
cast TBA
$30-$60
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 7 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Steven Reineke conducting
“Music of John Williams”
works TBA
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 8 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Richard Faria, clarinet
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Bruch: “Eight Pieces,” Op. 83, for clarinet, viola and piano
Khachaturian: Clarinet Trio (1932)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 26
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 13 (7:30 p.m.)
July 15 (7:30 p.m.)
July 18 (7:30 p.m.)
July 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Ash Lawn Opera
Steven Jarvi conducting
Mozart: “The Magic Flute”
David Portillo (Tamino)
Craig Vern (Papageno)
Emily Hindrichs (Queen of the Night)
Jennifer Zetlan (Pamina)
Kevin Thompson (Sarastro)
Travis Archer Richter (Monostatos)
Emma-Grace Dunbar (Papagena)
Daniel Rigazzi, stage director
in German, English dialogue and captions
$37-$54
(434) 979-1333
http://www.ashlawnopera.com/

July 13 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Chamber Players
David Macbride: “Echo Canon” (2009) for two trumpets
Haydn: Piano Trio in E major
Michael White: “The NaniZu Stories” for piano four-hands (premiere)
Macbride: “A Special Light” (2005) for glockenspiel with piano
Stravinsky: “Three Pieces for Clarinet”
Schumann: “Fantasiestücke,” Op. 88, Nos. 1-4, for piano trio
$30
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 13 (7:30 p.m.)
July 14 (2 and 7 p.m.)
July 15 (2 p.m.)
Castleton Festival Theatre, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
C.A.T.S. Training Seminar members
Lorin Maazel conducting
Sondheim: “A Little Night Music”
cast TBA
$20-$50
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 13 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Marvin Hamlisch conducting
Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
Kevin Cole, piano
Gershwin: “An American in Paris”
Gershwin: songs TBA
Melissa Errico, vocalist
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 14 (6 p.m.)
July 15 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Carl St. Clair conducting
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Norman Krieger, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
$40
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 14 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Gaëlle Solal, guitar
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major
solo guitar works TBA
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 14 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
“The Wizard of Oz,” film with orchestral accompaniment
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 15 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Bach: “Goldberg Variations”
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 15 (3 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Andrea Carroll, soprano
Olivia Vote, mezzo-soprano
Jason Slayden, tenor
Ryan Kuster, bass-baritone
Steven Blier, piano
“From Bel Canto to Can Belto: Songs by Italians and Italian-Americans”
program TBA
$32-$48
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Chamber Players
David Macbride: “A Second Space” (2008) for two horns and two trumpets
Macbride: “Still Night Thoughts” (1989) for piano
Macbride: “A Muse” (2002) for string quartet
Bach: Chaconne from Partita in D minor for solo violin
Beethoven: String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1
$30
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 20 (7:30 p.m.)
July 21 (3 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
C.A.T.S. Training Seminar members
songs TBA
$15
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 21 (6 p.m.)
July 22 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Josep Caballé-Domenech conducting
Schumann: “Overture, Scherzo and Finale”
Rheinberger: Organ Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Peter Marshall, organ
Gounod: Symphony No. 1 in D major
$40
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 21 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aaron Berofsky, Teresa Ling & Kathryn Votapek, violins
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner & Rachel Young, cellos
Anthony Manzo, double-bass
Robert Merfeld & Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (“Razumovsky”)
Paul Moravec: Piano Quartet (premiere)
Rossini: Duo for cello and double-bass
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 21 (7 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
Jennifer Koh, violin
pianist TBA
program TBA
$50
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 22 (4 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Guitar & Other Strings series:
VCU Community Guitar Ensemble
John Patykula directing
Lisa Edwards-Burrs, soprano
works TBA by Ponce, Lecuona, Halffter, Montsalvage, others
free
(804) 828-6776
http://www.vcu.edu/arts/music/dept/events/strings.html

July 22 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aaron Berofsky, Teresa Ling & Kathryn Votapek, violins
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner & Rachel Young, cellos
Anthony Manzo, double-bass
Robert Merfeld & Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 1, No. 2
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 22 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, Route 618, Rappahannock County
Castleton Festival:
C.A.T.S. Training Seminar
opera scenes TBA
$15
(866) 974-0767
http://www.castletonfestival.org/

July 26 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Eimear Noone conducting
“The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses,”video game with orchestral accompaniment
20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Chamber Players
Eric Ewazen: “Ballade, Pastorale and Dance” (2002) for flute, horn and piano
Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 1, No. 1
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 135
$30
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 27 (8 p.m.)
Orkney Springs Hotel Pavilion, Route 263 (Orkney Grade), Shenandoah County
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival:
Fairfax Symphony
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Byron Stripling, trumpet
“Satchmo, Fats and the Duke”
pops program TBA
$30-$40
(540) 459-3396
http://www.musicfest.org/

July 27 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
Holst: “The Planets,” with screening of NASA film
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 28 (6 p.m.)
July 29 (3 p.m.)
Evans Center, Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County
Wintergreen Music Festival:
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Mei-Ann Chen conducting
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 (“Jupiter”)
Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D major
$40
(434) 325-8292
http://www.wintergreenperformingarts.org/

July 28 (8 p.m.)
Orkney Springs Hotel Pavilion, Route 263 (Orkney Grade), Shenandoah County
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival:
Fairfax Symphony
Christopher Zimmerman conducting
Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons”
Anton Miller, violin
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”)
$30-$40
(540) 459-3396
http://www.musicfest.org/

July 28 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Joel Fuller & Teresa Ling, violins
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Robert Merfeld & Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Dvorák: “Silent Woods”
Janácek: “On an Overgrown Path,” Series 1
Vasks: Piano Quartet
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

July 28 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
Bruch: “Scottish Fantasy”
Nicola Benedetti, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”)
Corinne Winters, soprano
Margaret Gawrysiak, mezzo-soprano
Jason Slayden, tenor
Ryan Kuster, bass-baritone
The Washington Chorus
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

July 29 (2 p.m.)
Aug. 2 (7:30 p.m.)
Aug. 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Aug. 5 (2 p.m.)
Aug. 7 (7:30 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Ash Lawn Opera
Jon Kalbfleisch conducting
Meredith Wilson: “The Music Man”
Trevor Scheunemann (Harold Hill)
Joe Duquette (Charlie Cowell)
Pat Owen (Mayor Shinn)
Dan Stern (Marcellus Washburn)
Emily Albrink (Marian Paroo)
Cate Caplin, stage director & choreographer
$37-$54
(434) 979-1333
http://www.ashlawnopera.com/

July 29 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Robert Merfeld & Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Debussy: “Six Antique Epigraphs” for piano four-hands
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Debussy: String Quartet
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 3 (8 p.m.)
Aug. 5 (3 p.m.)
Aug. 11 (7 p.m.)
The Barns at Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Wolf Trap Opera Company
Dean Williamson conducting
Stravinsky: “The Rake’s Progress”
Eric Barry (Tom Rakewell)
Craig Colclough (Nick Shadow)
Corinne Winters (Anne Trulove)
Margaret Gawrysiak (Baba the Turk)
Aaron Sorensen (Father Trulove)
James Kryshak (Sellem)
Tara Faircloth, stage director
in English with captions
$35-$85
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

Aug. 3 (8:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Steven Reineke conducting
Idina Menzel, vocalist
pops program TBA
$20-$55
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

Aug. 4 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Teresa Ling, violin
James Dunham & Evelyn Grau, violas
Tobias Werner, cello
Robert Merfeld & Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Mozart: Viola Quintet in D major, K. 593
Granados: “Tonadillas” for viola and piano
Lavenda: Rhapsody for viola and piano
Bach: “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 6
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 4 (8:30 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
National Symphony Orchestra
Emil de Cou conducting
“West Side Story,” film with orchestral accompaniment
$20-$52
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

Aug. 5 (3 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Interlude 2012:
Richmond Chamber Players
John Walter, piano & director
Vaughan Williams: “On Wenlock Edge”
Tracey Welborn, tenor
Loeffler: “Two Rhapsodies”
Schulhoff: “Five Pieces for String Quartet”
$18
(804) 272-7514

Aug. 5 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
student fellows concert
performers TBA
program TBA
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 8 (7 p.m.)
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1627 Monument Ave., Richmond
August Musicales:
Lisa Edwards-Burrs, soprano
Michael Simpson, piano
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 359-2463

Aug. 11 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Baroque Band
“Charlie’s Angels: Music from the Court of Charles II”
Purcell: Chaconny
Purcell: “The Double Dealer” Suite
Purcell: The Staircase” Overture
Locke: “The Tempest” Suite
Lawes: “The Masque of Cornus” Suite
Blow: Chaconne
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 12 (3 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Richmond Chamber Players
John Walter, piano & director
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
Janácek: String Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)
Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
$18
(804) 272-7514

Aug. 12 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Baroque Band
Vivaldi: “Variations on ‘La Folia’ ”
Corelli: Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 5
Farina: “Capriccio stravagante”
Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerto No. 4 in G minor
Vivaldi: Sinfonia in G minor
other works TBA
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 12 (4 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Opera International
Edward Roberts conducting
Donizetti: “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Jessica Stecklein (Lucia)
Yingxi Zhang (Edgar Ravenswood)
Daesan No (Henry Ravenswood)
Muriel Von Villas, stage director
in Italian, English captions
$20-$50
(301) 581-5100
http://www.strathmore.org/

Aug. 15 (7 p.m.)
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1627 Monument Ave., Richmond
August Musicales:
Ellen Cockerham, violin
Russell Wilson, piano
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 359-2463

Aug. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
31st Street Stage, Virginia Beach
Symphony by the Sea:
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
works TBA from Walt Disney films, shows
free
(757) 892-6366
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/

Aug. 17 (7 p.m.)
President’s House, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Ysaÿe: Allegro vivo, e con fuoco for two violins
Couperin-Böhm: Suite in F major for harpsichord
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
$75 (seating limited)
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 18 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aeolus Quartet
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
Janácek: String Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”)
Brahms: String Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Johann Strauss II: “Banditen” Gallop (chamber arr.)
Ernst Krenek: four songs from “Travel Book from the Austrian Alps”
John Harbison: “November 19, 1828” for string quartet
Schubert: “Auf dem Wasser zu singen”
Schubert: “Die Forelle”
Josef Strauss: “Tritsch-Tratsch” Polka (piano six-hands arr.)
Schoenberg: “Six Little Piano Pieces”
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“Trout”)
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 19 (3 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Richmond Chamber Players
John Walter, piano & director
Schumann: Three Romances for oboe and piano
Karel Husa: “Évocations de Slovaquie”
Dohnányi: Sextet for piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and French horn
$18
(804) 272-7514

Aug. 19 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aeolus Quartet
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830, for piano
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
C.P.E. Bach: Concerto in E flat major for harpsichord, fortepiano and orchestra
Leonard Bernstein: “Arias and Barcarolles”
Schumann: Andante and Variations in B flat major for pianos, cellos and horn
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K. 364, for violin, viola and orchestra
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 42
Arvo Pärt: “Bach Collage” for oboe, strings, piano and harpsichord
Schumann: “Two Fugues on B.A.C.H.” for piano three-hands
Poulenc: “Improvisation on B.A.C.H.” for piano
Bach: “Mein Freund ist mein” from Cantata 140
Bach: Contrapunctus XIV from “The Art of the Fugue” for organ
Sofia Gubaidulina: Meditation for harpsichord, string quartet and double-bass
Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins , strings and continuo
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Michael-Thomas Foumai: songs
Shen Yiwen: songs
John Yanelli: Piano Sonata
free
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 22 (7 p.m.)
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1627 Monument Ave., Richmond
August Musicales:
Mike Davison, trumpet
Christopher Martin, organ
brass quintet
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 359-2463

Aug. 22 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Vaughan Williams: “Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ ” for flute, harp and strings
Beethoven: “Five Variations on ‘Rule Brittania’ ” for fortepiano
Britten: “Three Folk-song Arrangements” for voice and piano
Ornstein: “Impressions of the River Thames” for piano
Handel: “Zadok the Priest” for chorus and orchestra
Peter Maxwell Davies: “Eight Songs for a Mad King” for voice and chamber ensemble
Elgar: “Pomp and Circumstance” March No. 1 (chamber arr.)
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 23 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Haydn: Symphony No. 85 in B flat major (“La Reine”)
Biscardi: “Witch Dance” for dancer and two percussionists
Berio: “Six Folksongs” for voice, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, harp and percussion
Van Eyck: “Two Pieces” for recorder
Piazzolla: “Winter” and “Spring” from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” (piano trio arr.)
Harrison: “Varied Trio” for violin, piano and percussion
Grieg: “Holberg” Suite
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 24 (7:30 p.m.)
Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverly St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
Vivaldi: “Spring” Violin Concerto from “The Four Seasons”
Piccini: Toccata for therobo
Castello: Sonata for recorder and continuo
Monteverdi: duets TBA
Locatelli: Trio Sonata for two flutes and continuo
Vivaldi: “Summer” Violin Concerto from “The Four Seasons”
Vivaldi: “Autumn” Violin Concerto from “The Four Seasons”
Froberger: Partie in D minor for harpsichord
Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor for two oboes and continuo
Vivaldi: “Winter” Violin Concerto from “The Four Seasons”
madrigals in churchyard during intermission
$20
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 25 (5 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Teresa Ling, violin
Evelyn Grau, viola
Tobias Werner, cello
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 (“Archduke”)
Mahler-Schnittke: Piano Quartet
Colla: “Abaculi” Quartet
$22 (concert), $75 (concert & dinner)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 25 (7:30 p.m.)
Blackfriars Playhouse, 10 S. Market St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
performers TBA
“Versailles at the Blackfriars”
orchestral, chamber and vocal music by Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Rebel, Couperin, others
$26
(800) 838-3006
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/

Aug. 25 (7:15 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
“The Sound of Music,” film with audience sing-along
$15-$38
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/

Aug. 26 (3 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond
Richmond Chamber Players
John Walter, piano & director
William Grant Still: Miniatures for flute, oboe and piano
Rick Sowash: “A Little Breakfast Music”
Copland: Duo for flute and piano
Mozart: Viola Quintet in D major, K. 593
Molly Sharp, viola
$18
(804) 272-7514

Aug. 26 (3 p.m.)
Herter Hall, Garth Newel Music Center, Route 220, Hot Springs
Aaron Berofsky, violin
Philip Bush, piano
Beethoven: sonatas TBA for violin and piano
$22 (concert), $37 (concert & picnic)
(877) 558-1689
http://www.garthnewel.org/

Aug. 31 (8 p.m.)
Sept. 1 (2 and 8 p.m.)
Sept. 2 (2 and 8 p.m.)
Filene Center, Wolf Trap, Trap Road, Vienna
Rodgers & Hammerstein: “The King and I”
national touring company cast TBA
$20-$80
(877) 965-3872 (Tickets.com)
http://www.wolftrap.org/
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It has become commonplace to protest the formality of classical music performance, especially refraining from applause until the end of multi-movement works – which, as The New Yorker’s Alex Ross and others have pointed out, is a 20th-century practice, unknown to musicians and audiences of earlier times.

Few, though, have protested as outspokenly as Richard Dare, CEO and managing director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, who writes for The Huffington Post that highbrow etiquette prevents him from “authentically enjoy[ing] the performance going on inside that hall as I might spontaneously appreciate any other cultural pursuit like a movie or a dance or a hip-hop concert – if I could clap when clapping felt needed, laugh when it was funny, shout when I couldn’t contain the joy building up inside myself.”

Instead, Dare writes, classical performance is a realm resembling “a musical North Korea. . . . Rise to your feet and applaud. The Dear Leader is coming on stage to conduct. He will guide us, ever so worshipfully through the necrocracy of composers we are obliged to forever adore” . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-dare/classical-music-concerts_b_1525896.html

Dare and others who’ve written similar pieces neglect to note that etiquette afflicts other kinds of musical performance. Go to just about any jazz concert and you’ll hear applause after every solo, whether or not it warrants applause. At most pop-music arena shows, audience response is as carefully stage-managed as at a Soviet May Day parade. Spontaneous response to performers is rare in any genre of music – or any other performing art, for that matter.

“Classical music belongs to the audience – to its listeners, not the critics, to the citizens, not the snobs,” Dare writes. Yes, but: Classical music differs from other kinds because the focus of the performance is not the artist, however stellar, or the audience, however enthusiastic. It’s about the music.

What enhances the enjoyment and appreciation of the music is good, what distracts from it is not. Clapping between movements does not break the spell; clapping whenever you feel like it, shouting when you can’t “contain the joy,” disrupts the musical experience of others.

“Stuffy” is one way to describe classical concert etiquette. “Considerate” is another.
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Protest against the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin now extends to the country’s leading opera houses, as productions of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockrell” at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre are updated with scenes of riot police and missiles on parade.

The operas’ stories of strife in tsarist times are easily updated: “You can take any epoch in Russia and bring it to modern times and it will be the same thing. That’s what happens in Russia – it’s the same thing, over and over again,” Kirill Serebrennikov, director of the Bolshoi production, tells The Guardian’s Miriam Elder:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/31/protests-vladimir-putin-boris-godunov-opera
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