WMPA Summer Chamber Music Series
Each summer, Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association sponsors a Summer Chamber Music Series, held between mid-June and September at The Lyceum in historic Old Town Alexandria. These weekly performances are free and open to the public. The performances feature small ensembles and soloists, primarily from Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic and the local arts community.
Where:
The Lyceum
201 South Washington Street
Alexandria, Virginia
When:
Sunday afternoons at 3 P.M.
2009 Summer Chamber Music Series Program:
June 21
Flutist Analiese Trimber and pianist Sherry Graveson
- Chaminade: Concertino
- Hue: Fantasie
- Enescu: Cantabile et Presto
- Debussy: Syrinx
- Godard: Allegretto
- Ravel: Pavanne for a Dead Princess
June 28
Violinist Marlisa Woody and piano accompanist
- Vivaldi: “Summer” from The Four Seasons
- Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
- Other selected works TBA
July 5
Pianist and composer Haskell Small
- Scarlatti: Four Sonatas
- Ives: Song Without (Good) Words
- Small: Altercations (A Chaconne)
- Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
July 12
Violinist Albert Yan and piano accompanist
- Chopin arr. by Milstein: Nocturne No. 20, Posth. in C-sharp Minor
- Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100
- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
- Bartok: Roumanian Folk Dances
July 19
The Covington String Quartet
- Haydn: String Quartet in E flat Major, No. 2, Op. 33 “Joke”
- Bartok: String Quartet No. 3
- Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No. 1 “Rasumovsky”
July 26
Pianist Alex Beresovsky
- Bach: Transcriptions of Chorales and Instrumental Works
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27 No. 1
- Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D537
- Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1
- Hindemith: Sonata No. 2
August 9
Flutist Susan Brockman, violinist Joel Ang, violinist Jennifer, violist Andrea Marlowe and pianist Stephen Bertino
- Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G Major for flute, violin, viola and cello.
- Mozart: Quartet in D Major for flute, violin, viola and cello
- Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
August 16
Soprano Terri LaGoe, hornist Jay Chadwick, and pianist Thom Robertson and friends
- Performing works by Lachner, Strauss, Donizetti, Berlioz and others
- Joseph Miroslav Weber: Septet – “From My Life” in E Major for violin, viola, cello, clarinet, bassoon, and two horns
August 23
The Covington String Quartet
- Performing works by Beethoven, Goldmark and Gershwin
August 30
Pianist Stephen Bertino, flutist Lynn Ann Zimmerman-Bell, flutist Susan Brockman, oboist Emily Bentgen, clarinetist Richard Rubock, violinist Jeffrey Newberger, violist Andrea Marlowe, cellist Jan Timbers, and bassist Bill Bentgen
- Thomas Dunhill: Suite for Flute and Pianoforte
- Saint-Saëns: Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs
- Schubert: The Trout Quintet
September 6
Violinist Benjamin Scott and pianist Brad Clark
- Mozart: Sonata in F Major, K.376
- Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23
- Arvo Pärt: Fratres for Violin and Piano
- Handel: Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 13 (HWV 371)
- Schubert: Sonata in G Minor, D408
For more information, please call (703) 799-8229.
