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Choral Music | Solo Recitals | Orchestral Music | Chamber Ensembles | Sacred Music

This week in Alexandria...

Ensemble Pro Tem 

When: Saturday, March 13th, at 7:30 pm

Where: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 8009 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria   GoogleMap

What: A. Bruckner, Motets; Olivier Messiaen, "Quartet for the end of time"

$$: Ticket prices: Adults $20; Seniors $15; Students $10; Youth under 13 $5.00 Tickets are available at door, or at the parish office

More info: (703) 765-4342 (ask for Ms. Marty Young)


ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

When: Saturday, March 13 at 8:00 p.m.

Where: Rachel M. Schlesinger Arts Center 3001 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria  GoogleMap

Who: Kim Allen Kluge (conductor); Elizabeth Bishop ( mezzo-soprano);  Ta’u Pupu’a ( tenor), and Allison Bailey ( violin)

What: 

Grofe, “Sunrise” from Grand Canyon Suite 
Ravel, “Dawn” from Daphnis and Chloe 
Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 
Vivaldi, “Spring” from Four Seasons
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde

$$: Purchase tickets online or by calling (703) 548-0885

More info: Alexandria Symphony Orchestra 


St. Paul’s Old Town Music Offerings: Choral Eucharist

When: Sunday, March 14, at 11:00 a.m.

Where: St. Paul's Church, 228 South Pitt Street, Alexandria, VA 22314  GoogleMaps 

Who: The combined Treble Choirs of Christ Church, Alexandria; St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Arlington; St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Greenwich, Connecticut; and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA 

More info: (703) 549-3312 or email: douglas@stpaulsalexandria.com  


ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

When: Sunday, March 14 at 3:00 p.m.

Where: Rachel M. Schlesinger Arts Center 3001 N. Beauregard Street, Alexandria  GoogleMap

Who: Kim Allen Kluge (conductor); Elizabeth Bishop ( mezzo-soprano);  Ta’u Pupu’a ( tenor), and Allison Bailey ( violin), with Bowen McCauley Dance Company

What: 

Vivaldi, “Spring” from Four Seasons
Kluge, Haiku Suite: Three nature poems for sakahachi and orchestra
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde

$$: Purchase tickets online or by calling (703) 548-0885
More info: Alexandria Symphony Orchestra 


Oleh Krysa, violinist

When: Sunday, March 14 at 3:00 pm

Where: The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St, Alexandria   GoogleMap

What: works by Brahms, Wagner, Schubert, De Falla, Debussy and Paganini. 

$$: suggested donation $20, students free; unreserved seating.

More info: The Washington Group Cultural Fund; (301) 229-2615 

Reception to follow the concert


St. Paul’s Old Town Music Offerings: Choral Evensong

When: Sunday, March 14, at 5:00 p.m.

Where: St. Paul's Church, 228 South Pitt Street, Alexandria, VA 22314  GoogleMaps 

Who: The combined Treble Choirs of Christ Church, Alexandria; St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Arlington; St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Greenwich, Connecticut; and St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA 

More info: (703) 549-3312 or email: douglas@stpaulsalexandria.com  


Vesper Organ Concert at Grace Church

When: March 14, 2010 at 6:00 pm

Where: Grace Episcopal Church, 3601 Russell Road, Alexandria, VA 22305  GoogleMaps

Who: Timothy Edward Smith, organist

What: Organ Concert on the new Di Gennaro-Hart pipe organ of Grace Church.

Music for Lent (45 minute program)

$$: Admission free, but a free-will offering will be taken.

More info: (703) 549-1980 or e-mail music.director@gracealex.org