SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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7— Cellist Daniel Gaisford Performing Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G for Unaccompanied Cello and Michael Hersch’s Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello. At Phillips Collection.
7— Colin Carr, cellist At Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington.
9— Gautier Capuçon and Gabriela Montero The cellist and pianist join in Rachmaninoff and other works. At the Library of Congress.
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13 — Calder Quartet Music by Bartók, Beethoven and Ravel, presented by WPAS. At Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.
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14 — The Seasons Project Robert McDuffie and the Venice Baroque Orchestra juxtapose
Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” with Philip Glass’s “American Four Seasons,” his Second Violin Concerto. At Music Center at Strathmore.
14 — National Gallery of Art Orchestra Pianist Sara Daneshpour joins the ensemble to perform music by Stamitz and other composers of the 18th-century “Mannheim School.” At the National Gallery of Art.
15 — Opera Lafayette Presents “La Muse de l’Opera,” works by Clerambault and others, conducted by Ryan Brown. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
10 — Emanuel Ax, pianist Music by Schubert and Chopin. At Music Center at Strathmore.
10 — Hanoi Millennium: ModernWorks Ensemble Works by leading Vietnamese composers. At Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium.
11 — Bang on a Can All-Stars Presenting the American premiere of “2x5” by Steve
Reich. At Music Center at Strathmore.
11 — Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conducts Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto (Simon Trpceski), Barber’s Essay No. 2, and Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony arranged by Mahler. Through Nov. 12. At Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
13 — Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin With Lambert Orkis, piano, performing Brahms’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3. At Kennedy Center, Concert Hall.
17 — Orchestra of St. Lukes Chamber Music The crack New York-based ensemble offers the world premiere of “The Hawthorn Tree,” by American lion William Bolcom. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
18 — National Symphony Orchestra Susanna Mälkki conducts, with Garrick Ohlsson in Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto, as well as Lindberg’s “Parada” and the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th. At Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Through Nov. 20.
18 — Pro Musica Hebraica Toronto’s ARC ensemble plays music written during World War II by Jewish composers. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
19 — Maryland Opera Studio Daniel Catán’s opera “Florencia en el Amazonas.” At Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theatre. Through Nov. 23.
19 — Doric Quartet Plays Haydn, Korngold and Schumann. At the Library of Congress. »21 — Tokyo String Quartet Plays Mozart and Barber; pianist Jeremy Denk joins Dvorák’s Quintet in A. Presented by WPAS. At the Music Center at Strathmore.
21 — Kennedy Center Chamber Players Music by Loeffler, Hindemith, Poulenc and Dvorak. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
21 — Washington Chorus Offers “The Essential Rachmaninoff,” including the Vespers and a two-piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances. At Kennedy Center, Concert Hall.
DECEMBER
2— National Symphony Orchestra Louis Lortie, piano; Emmanuel Krivine, conductor. Beethoven’s “Egmont” overture and Piano Concerto No. 2; Liszt’s “Les Préludes,” Strauss’s “Don Juan.” At Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Through Dec. 4.
3— Virginia Opera Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte.” At George Mason University, Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Through Dec. 5. » 4 — Dejan Lajic, pianist Plays Chopin and Schubert in WPAS’s Hayes Piano Series. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
4— Turtle Island QuartetWith pianist Cyrus Chestnut and mandolinist Mike Marshall. At George
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Mason University, Center for the Arts Concert Hall. » 4 — 21st Century Consort Presents “Unruly Landscapes:” music by Ives, Sheng, Kernis and others. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
5— Parker Quartet with Kim Kashkashian, violinist At Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington.
7— Elizabeth Futral and Stephen Costello The acclaimed American soprano and tenor in a joint recital. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
10 — A Renaissance Christmas The Folger Consort with the Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir. At Georgetown University, Gaston Hall. Through Dec. 12.
16 — National Symphony Orchestra Presents Handel’s “Messiah,” conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini. At Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Through Dec. 19.
16 — Anonymous 4 The acclaimed, once dissolved, now rejoined a cappella group offers a Christmas concert. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
18 — Vienna Boys Choir Christmas music. At George Mason University, Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
18 — Sybarite5 The alt-classical quintet performs music by Dvorák and Radiohead on the Whitall Stradivarius collection. At the Library of Congress.
GENE CARL FELDMAN Great Noise Ensemble
You can’t call “De Materie” small. Louis Andriessen is one of the biggest composers in Europe, and his vocal-orchestra piece “On Matter” opens with a bang, literally, that’s repeated 144 times at full volume. And this piece’s Washington premiere is by far the biggest thing ever essayed by the still-new Great Noise Ensemble, a group founded a few years ago over Craigslist. In fact, this Oct. 24 performance at the National Gallery shows a small group demonstrating large-scale ambitions — and one of the most important compositions of the late 20th century.
19 — Pianist Stanislav Khristenko Performs Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes.” At Phillips Collection.
JANUARY
2— American String Quartet Launches a series of the complete Beethoven string quartets. At the National Gallery of Art.
7— Folger Consort Performs pieces by Christopher Simpson and Antonio Vivaldi. At Washington National Cathedral. Through Jan. 8.
» — Anne Midgette architecture } fall arts preview A major addition to the mall
Peace Institute’s new building commands prominent spot
by Philip Kennicott E
conomic downturns work their way slowly through the world of architecture. Coming up on three years
since the great recession of the late aughts began, the building industry is still struggling to recover. That means delayed projects and architectural ideas left on the drawing board. The construction of speculative office space, which so defines the look of down- town Washington, has been particularly affected. But government and public
projects continue. Although the United States Institute of Peace headquarters, located on the northwest corner of the Mall, won’t officially be open for business until spring, it is coming together rapidly and will take its place as one of the most prominent new public buildings in Washington. De- signed by architect Moshe Saf- die, it is already an instantly recognizable structure — a 150,000-square-foot, five-story white building with what ap- pear to be winglike structures drooping off its roof.
Safdie also designed the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a fortresslike behemoth with a distinctive curving arcade, near the cor- ner of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast. With the construction of the Peace In- stitute — highly visible to com- muters entering and exiting the city on Interstate 66 — Saf- die has put his stamp on two of the most heavily trafficked gateways to the District. But it is the Peace Institute’s impact on the Mall that will de-
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termine the success or failure of the building. The northwest corner of the Nation’s Front Yard has generally been a fairly sleepy place, with Constitution Gardens, a somewhat run- down afterthought to the Mall, to the south and east. To the west and north of the building site there are, respectively, a spaghetti bowl of highway ramps and the high-security no-go zone of the Naval Obser- vatory grounds. The Peace Institute will bring traffic to this spot and raise the profile of the govern- ment-chartered, nonpartisan think tank, which devotes its energies to conflict resolution throughout the world. It will also be highly visible from the Mall, changing sight lines and casting light from its large, glass-fronted atrium. As Wash- ingtonians begin to make their own peace with this new addi- tion to the landscape, expect much discussion of sheds and ducks. The terms are borrowed from Robert Venturi and De- nise Scott Brown, who in the 1970s articulated a fundamen- tal distinction between the “decorated shed” (a functional building with a sign or symbol defining its purpose) and a “duck,” an iconic structure that represents its purpose through its form. The authors were all in favor of the functionality and adaptability of the deco- rated shed, as opposed to, say, a hot-dog-shaped hot-dog stand that sells hot dogs. So which will it be? Wash-
ingtonians can ponder the new Peace Institute, with its dove- like wings, over the course of the coming year, and ask them- selves: Duck or shed? If it quacks . . .
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FOR DOVES? Exterior views of the new Institute of Peace headquarters designed by Moshe Safdie show a 150,000-square-foot building with winglike structures topping its roof.
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LITTLE GEM New District libraries D.C. PUBLIC LIBRARY The Georgetown library reopens soon.
They aren’t huge buildings, and they aren’t on the Mall, but the new libraries that began opening in the District in April are one of the city’s architectural bright spots. ¶ Earlier this year, the District added a new and bold facility on
Benning Road and another in Anacostia. In October, the newly refurbished Georgetown branch reopens for the first time since a devastating fire in 2007. More than just a rehabilitation, the Georgetown branch will include completely new spaces on the first and third floors, and a lot more natural light. ¶ Early this winter, an entirely new Tenleytown branch will open, designed by the Freelon Group. In an age of bland, glass-fronted office blocks and generic design, these little libraries stand out as genuine acts of architectural thinking. They are also making the District’s libraries more attractive, more functional and more relevant to the people who rely on them.
— Philip Kennicott
8 — Renée Fleming The renowned soprano in recital with pianist Hartmut Höll. At Kennedy
Center Concert Hall.
14 — Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Marin Alsop, presenting a co-commissioned work by Philip Glass, “Icarus at the Edge of Time,” along with
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Ceres” and John Williams’s “Star Wars” suite. At Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
14 — Peabody Trio At the Barns at Wolf Trap.
22 — Brian Ganz Chopin piano recital. At Music Center at Strathmore.
performs in WPAS’s Hayes Piano Series. At Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
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23 — VERGE Ensemble Presents “When Kandinsky Met Schonberg.” At National Gallery of Art, West Building Garden Court.
23 — Raphael Trio First of a two-part performance of the complete piano trios of Franz Schubert (continues Jan. 30). At Phillips Collection.
23 — Amit Peled, cellist Performing in WPAS’s Kreeger String Series. At Kennedy Center Terrace
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25 — Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax Joining the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio in a tribute to Pablo Casals’s concert 50 years ago in the Kennedy White House. At Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
26 — Joshua Bell The superstar violinist in recital. At the Music Center at Strathmore.
28 — David Jolley, horn; Edward Laurel, piano At the Barns at Wolf Trap.
29 — Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Philippe Entremont, conductor and piano. Sebastian Knauer, piano. At George Mason University, Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
29 — Till Fellner, piano A WPAS recital that includes a new work by Kit Armstrong. At the Kennedy
Center Terrace Theater.
22 — National Symphony Orchestra With Christoph Eschenbach, performing the world premiere of a work by Peter Lieberson commemorating the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Also: Gershwin’s Piano Concerto with Tzimon Barto, and works by Bernstein. At Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Through Jan. 24.
22 — Sofya Gulyak A past winner of the Kapell Competition and the Leeds Competition
Special Valentine’s Day Concert
An Evening with
Chris Botti
Monday, February 14 at 8pm Kennedy Center Concert Hall
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