Calendar of Events
as of April 5, 2008

The concert will feature three solo organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach: Canzona in D Minor, Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, and Prelude and Fugue in G Major, and two Bach Cantatas: No. 170, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, and No. 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut.

St. Columba's Episcopal Church

Christ Church on Capitol Hill

Christ Church on Capitol Hill

Christ Church on Capitol Hill

"O glittering starlight…O shining gem ... You glow red like the dawn, and you burn like the sun's fire. You are held all around by the embraces of the divine mysteries ..."

Armona Nova delights in this chance to share with you the music of this most remarkable woman, to offer you an evening of music, poetry and visual color. This is glorious, moving music that stirs emotions in people as fresh as if it had been written yesterday -- as if it had been written for out time. Now, as well as in her own time, she amazes the listener with the depth of her creative force. Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th Century musician, poet, philosopher, playwright, naturalist, scientist, leader, teacher, shaper of world events -- she would have been extraordinary in any age. Come and hear why.

Christ Church on Capitol Hill

The ArcoVoce Chamber Ensemble presents vocal and instrumental works of Schutz, J.S. Bach, Telemann, and Handel.

St. Alban's Episcopal Church

National Gallery of Art

Lutheran Church of the Reformation

The program will consist of music written by composers focused around the German landing in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608. We will be performing music from composers leading up to the 1608 landing, around 1608 and in the years after. The quartet, made up of one soprano, one mezzo-soprano, and two countertenors, will be joined by another countertenor, and three early music instruments.

St. Paul's K Street

Ensemble Gaudior, led by Washington-area violinist Alexandra MacCracken, presents a program featuring baroque chamber music from 17th century Vienna and Salzburg, performed on period instruments. Discover little-known masterpieces by Biber, Froberger, Muffat, and Schmelzer -- virtuosic music that will transport you to a long-ago era of unparalleled elegance and creativity. Written for princes, bishops, and the Holy Roman Emperor, these works will be played for you on a 350-year-old violin by the famed Austrian maker Jacob Stainer, accompanied by viola da gamba and harpsichord.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill

This concert features three quartets by Johann Friedrich Fasch (honoring the 250th anniversary of his death in 1758) and two by his friend Georg Phillip Telemann, each for a different combination of instruments. Representing an innovative expansion of the standard baroque trio sonata ensemble, so-called "quadros," or quartet sonatas, include an additional (third) melodic part above the bass line, and were written by only a dozen or so composers. Our assortment will be performed on historical instruments by a group of six Washington-area early-music specialists, gathered together for this occasion under the name "The Friends of Fasch."

St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill

Tina Chancey, viola da gamba, is joined by Elizabeth Field, baroque violin, and Joseph Gascho, harpsichord, with a program of Buxtehude, Biber, Schenk and Bach.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill

This Renaissance Dance Workshop is open to all adults and children eight years and older. Participants may wear Renaissance clothes if they have period clothes. If not, please wear comfortable clothes, soft shoes and come to have fun learning a French pavane and branles, Italian galliarde and la volta, some Canary steps, and English country dances.

Chrystelle Bond, Professor of Dance, Founding Chair, Dance Department,
Director of Choregraphie Antique, Goucher College

St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill

Illuminare will present numerous works by the Sibyl of the Rhine, Hildegard von Bingen, including her masterful sequence, O Ecclesia. Originally an extension of the Alleluia within the Roman Mass, the sequence took on an independence which other embellishments to chants did not, becoming a "canvas' for remarkable literary and musical creativity.

The program will also include a sequence by Notker Balbulus of St. Gall (9th century), early polyphonic organum and selections from the Carmina Burana manuscript performed by Carmina's male chant choir.

St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill