Summer musical presentation fills the halls of the Music Center at Strathmore and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Maryland.
The National Orchestral Institute
The institute, now in its 23rd season at the University of Maryland, is a four-week program of intensive study covering chamber music, chamber orchestras, orchestral performance and professional performance. The institute invites the public to enjoy the fruits of its labors. Tickets are at a nominal price, with many performances free.
On June 12, Daniel Hege conducts the NOI Philharmonic I in a program that includes Barber’s overture to “The School for Scandal” and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, op.83. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are $25.
Audiences can check out a free 9:30 a.m.-to-noon open rehearsal June 18 with Asher Fisch conducting the NOI Philharmonic II, while later that night, at 7 p.m., outstanding string, wind and mixed chamber groups perform free to the public. At 8 p.m. June 19, Fisch conducts the Philharmonic II in a program that features Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra. Tickets for this event are $25.
The cycle concludes with the NOI Philharmonic III under the direction of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, in a free, behind-the-scenes rehearsal at 9:30 a.m. June 25, followed by the Philharmonic III concert highlighting Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F major, op.90 on June 26. Tickets are $25.
For more information, visit music.umd.edu/noi/about.
The Music Center at Strathmore
This 1,976-seat concert hall is home to a wide variety of summer programming.
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves on June 13, while the City Dance Center’s 2010 Children and Youth Concert hits the stage at 1 p.m. June 19.
July’s busy calendar at Strathmore includes two Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performances: Planet Earth at 8 p.m. July 8 and Rising Stars performing Tchaikovsky Concertos at 8 p.m. July 17.
IMP presents an evening with singer Natalie Merchant at 8 p.m. July 18 and Melissa Etheridge live in concert at 7:30 p.m. July 20.
Sixty of the D.C. area’s best performers — including Tommy Lepson, Eric Brace & Last Train Home, 4 Out of 5 Doctors, Margot MacDonald, The Hall Monitors, Jon Carroll, Marti Brom, Patty Reese, Jeff Watson, Julia Nixon and more — honor singers and bands that forever changed America’s musical landscape.
The show, set for 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11 and 12, highlights the years of 1964 to ’66. This show features hits originally performed by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Petula Clark, the Who, the Hollies, Dusty Springfield, the Kinks, the Animals, the Zombies, Peter and Gordon, Tom Jones, the Yarbirds and more.
Visit strathmore.org for ticket prices and information.
