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Don’t miss our exciting Focus on America season! Each concert will begin with a song for soloist and orchestra from the Great American Songbook. You will hear a familiar wonderful song by American songwriters like Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and others. Each concert will also feature at least one work by an American composer. And we will continue our last season’s Spotlight on Women Composers theme by performing outstanding works by women composers at several concerts. Finally, you will hear some “traditional” classical music. WMP will perform works by Faure, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Elgar, and Beethoven. We’re delighted to have outstanding artists Tom Pandolfi, the Washington Saxophone Quartet, Molly Jones, Tim Kidder, Karl Hovey, John Sutherland Earle, Charles Williams, and Marlisa Woods and others performing with the orchestra.
2019 Concerts SUNDAY OCT 13 3PM Alexandria - Masonic Memorial SATURDAY OCT 19 4:30PM Oakton - UUCF ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO WMP opens its season with Gwyneth Walker’s dramatic setting of Langston Hughes famous poem. Virgil Thomson’s witty Symphony takes hymn tunes and other Americana to a different and thoroughly enjoyable level. Maryland Symphony cellist Molly Jones performs Elgar’s beloved and poetic Cello Concerto, his last work for orchestra. American Song Book Selection GWYNETH WALKER Let America be America Again, Charles Williams, Narrator VIRGIL THOMSON Symphony on A Hymn Tune ELGAR Cello Concerto Molly Jones, Cellist ------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY DEC 8 3PM Alexandria - Masonic Memorial SUNDAY DEC 15 4:30PM Oakton - UUCF STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA Join WMP for delightful musical treats during the holiday season performing Vaughan Williams delightful version of Greensleeves. WMP’s principal violinist Tim Kidder solos in Lukas Foss’s melodious and virtuosic Three American Pieces, orchestrated by Foss for Itzhak Perlman. WMP’s principal Tubist Karl Hovey explores Richard Strauss’ romantic Horn Concerto, playing it on the tuba. Discover how Stravinsky evokes the world of commedia dell’arte clowns in Pulcinella. Holiday Selection from the American Song Book VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Greensleeves, Lynn Ann Zimmerman-Bell, Flute; Heidi Sturniolo, Harp LUKAS FOSS Three American Pieces, Timothy Kidder, violin RICHARD STRAUSS Horn Concerto No.1, Karl Hovey, tuba STRAVINSKY Pulcinella 2020 Concerts SUNDAY FEB 9 3 pm Alexandria - Masonic Memorial SUNDAY FEB 16 4:30PM Oakton - UUCF BEETHOVEN EMPEROR CONCERTO Don’t miss this concert of great music. Stephen Ellis of Fanfare Magazine calls WMPA Composition Competition winner Anthony Iannaccone’s colorful Third Symphony “stunning” and “one of the supreme American symphonies.” WMP pairs this outstanding work with Beethoven’s great and powerful “Emperor” Piano Concerto, performed by locally renowned pianist John Sutherland Earle. American Song Book Selection ANTHONY IANNACCONE Symphony No. 3, Night Rivers BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, John Sutherland Earle, pianist ------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY MAR 29 3PM Alexandria - Masonic Memorial SUNDAY APR 5 4:30PM Oakton - UUCF RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO Acclaimed pianist Thomas Pandolfi returns to amaze the audience with a scintillating performance of Rachmaninoff’s epic second Piano Concerto. Nineteenth century German composer Emilie Mayer’s brilliant third symphony will also amaze us with its contrasting Viennese styles, rich textures, and overall brilliance. American Song Book Selection EMILIE MAYER Symphony No. 3, Sinfonie Militair RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.2, Thomas Pandolfi, piano --------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY MAY 30 4:30PM Oakton - UUCF SUNDAY MAY 31 3PM Alexandria - Masonic Memorial PRICE VIOLIN CONCERTO Ring in summer with Elinor Remick Warren’s shimmering tone poem based on vistas of the Sierras. Visualize the concert pavilions in America’s green town summer lawns as you hear Corigliano’s Gazebo Dances. The Washington Saxophone Quartet joins WMP in performing Sid Robinovitch’s superb illumination of the many styles of saxophone music. The season concludes with Florence Price’s rarely performed and beautiful Violin Concerto, with acclaimed violinist Marlisa Woods. American Song Book Selection ELINOR REMICK WARREN Crystal Lake SID ROBINOVITCH Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (1998), Washington Saxophone Quartet JOHN CORIGLIANO Gazebo Dances FLORENCE PRICE Violin Concerto No. 2, Marlisa Woods, Violin Programs and performers subject to change without notice. Tickets:
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(UUCF) Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax OAKTON VA: SATURDAY or SUNDAY afternoons at 4:30 pm (MM) George Washington Masonic National Memorial ALEXANDRIA VA SUNDAY afternoons at 3 pm An Important Change for the 2019-20 Season:
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