Thursday November 18, 2004
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th St., NW
In collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute and the University of Maryland.
6:30 p.m. Discussion with Mary Kay Vaughan, Jennifer DeLapp,
Angel Gil-Ordóñez. (Free admission)
8 p.m. Concert
Works by Manuel Ponce, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas.
These composers were to Mexican music what Pancho Villa was to Mexican politics: revolutionaries. Their compositions built on Mexican popular music and dance, as well as village music and indigenous mestizo strains of the city streets.
Open Rehearsal: Mexican Revolutionaries
Wednesday, December 8, 1:30 p.m.
The Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road, NW
Tickets: $8/Kreeger Museum’s Members Free
For reservations, please call 202-338-3552.
Mexican Revolutionaries
at The Mansion at Strathmore | read review| see program
Thursday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.
The Mansion at Strathmore (Strathmore Hall Arts Center,
10701 Rockville Pike. North Bethesda).
Mexican Revolutionaries (repeat of the Nov. 18 program)
For Reservations, please call Strathmore Ticket Office Phone: 301-581-5100
The Song of the Earth Benefit Gala| read review | see program
Wednesday March 16, 2005. 7:00pm
Embassy of Austria.
3524 International Court, NW
Under the gracious patronage of Her Excellency Eva Nowotny, Ambassador of Austria
With the participation of Music from China.
“Grace and virtuosity” —JON PARELES, The New York Times
Gustav Mahler’s masterpiece Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) famously adapts poems from the Tang dynasty. Hear the aching “Farwell,” from Das Lied, in combination with traditional and contemporary Chinese music. “An aromatic feast for the ear; an extraordinary exercise in cultural exchange.”
And Don’t Miss Post-Classical Ensemble at the American Film Institute!| read reviews | see program
In June 2005, Post-Classical Ensemble at the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre (Silver Spring, Maryland) presents two classic 1930s American film documentaries, with music (“restored” in live performance) by Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke The Plains and The River.
Save the Date!
Sunday, October 3, 6:30 p.m., National Gallery of Art
Angel Gil-Ordóñez will conduct the inaugural concert of
the National Gallery Orchestra’s 2004–05 Season in music by Antonín Dvorák.
