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Emily Cary
McCutcheon strums sermons on baseball
- John McCutcheon is the 21st century’s traveling minstrel, a cultural icon who performs on multiple instruments and sings songs that open the heart and mind. His Wolf Trap audience can look forward to selections from “Sermon on the Mound,” his latest recording, which pays homage to baseball.
300 for ‘Carmina’
- Tom Hall, the music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, is excited about the upcoming performance of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, the BCAS and the Peabody Children’s Chorus, more than 300 musicians in all.
Review: Head of the class
- The stage adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning “High School Musical,” the movie that smashed all records on the Disney Channel, has arrived in Washington for two weeks, followed by two more in Baltimore.
Night Out: Musician brings songs for all ages
- Joshua Rich brings his cross-generational show to Live!
Chinese concerto showman joins the NSO at Wolf Trap
- When Lang Lang replaced the ailing Andre Watts at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival in 1999, the 17-year-old Chinese pianist knew before the final chord that the audience was his. Since then, he has bedazzled packed houses worldwide with his technical prowess and magnetic showmanship.
- When Lang Lang replaced the ailing Andre Watts at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival in 1999, the 17-year-old Chinese pianist knew before the final chord that the audience was his. Since then, he has bedazzled packed houses worldwide with his technical prowess and magnetic showmanship.
Capitol salsa
- Tito Puente Jr. honors the memory of his father, Tito Puente, The King of Salsa, by celebrating America’s birthday with a music and dance fest on Woodrow Wilson Plaza at noon.
- Tito Puente Jr. honors the memory of his father, Tito Puente, The King of Salsa, by celebrating America’s birthday with a music and dance fest on Woodrow Wilson Plaza at noon.
Twice the rock history
- Hall & Oates cement their reputation as one of the greatest duo in rock history with a Strathmore concert of the music that thrilled a generation for its originality, emotion and humanity.
- Hall & Oates cement their reputation as one of the greatest duo in rock history with a Strathmore concert of the music that thrilled a generation for its originality, emotion and humanity.
Vixen of ‘Volpone’
- Soprano Lisa Hopkins, a Washington resident, is one of the 19 fortunate Filene Young Artists chosen for a summer of residency with Wolf Trap Opera Company. They come from young artist programs and conservatories nationwide for the same kind of intensive training that has propelled past WTOC participants to international careers.
- Soprano Lisa Hopkins, a Washington resident, is one of the 19 fortunate Filene Young Artists chosen for a summer of residency with Wolf Trap Opera Company. They come from young artist programs and conservatories nationwide for the same kind of intensive training that has propelled past WTOC participants to international careers.
‘Phantom’ fighter
- Greg Mills remembers attending Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” as a youngster. Little did he imagine that one day he would be Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, in the production playing in The Kennedy Center Opera House through mid-August.
- Greg Mills remembers attending Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” as a youngster. Little did he imagine that one day he would be Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, in the production playing in The Kennedy Center Opera House through mid-August.
Dancing the night away
- “Riverdance” celebrates a decade of sold-out performances at Wolf Trap with six concerts of thunderous dancing, precision tapping and exotic presentation of ancient Celtic myths to the intoxicating beat of ethnic rhythms adapted by composer Bill Whelan.
- “Riverdance” celebrates a decade of sold-out performances at Wolf Trap with six concerts of thunderous dancing, precision tapping and exotic presentation of ancient Celtic myths to the intoxicating beat of ethnic rhythms adapted by composer Bill Whelan.
Shining star
- Ted Neeley recalls pushing through picket lines to reach the theater when “Jesus Christ Superstar” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice first opened on Broadway. Three decades later, he comes to Wolf Trap in the musical so popular that the current tour is extended to 2009.
- Ted Neeley recalls pushing through picket lines to reach the theater when “Jesus Christ Superstar” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice first opened on Broadway. Three decades later, he comes to Wolf Trap in the musical so popular that the current tour is extended to 2009.
Krash course
- Composer and pianist Jessica Krash represents every woman in the arts who has followed her muse to achieve career goals while raising a family. The Chevy Chase resident closes Strathmore’s Women in the Arts series Thursday in a program of her original works, two of them world premieres.
Wicked ‘Witches’
- Marc Kudisch gravitates to the devil whenever the opportunity arises. Direct from playing the serpent who tempts Eve (and two other roles) in the Broadway hit “The Apple Tree,” he slithers into the deliciously wicked persona of Daryl Van Horne in “The Witches of Eastwick” at Signature Theatre.
- Marc Kudisch gravitates to the devil whenever the opportunity arises. Direct from playing the serpent who tempts Eve (and two other roles) in the Broadway hit “The Apple Tree,” he slithers into the deliciously wicked persona of Daryl Van Horne in “The Witches of Eastwick” at Signature Theatre.
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