Lois Jones, President

The Friday Morning Music Club, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

For classical musicians and music lovers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

CONCERT SCHEDULE FOR APRIL 2003

• Mendelssohn: Two Etudes, Five Songs without Words. IMMANUELA GRUENBERG, piano.
• Toby Tate: Seasons in the Sky, Dawn Song, ìDawnî&ìMemoryî (From Love and Loss).. JOAN McFARLAND,soprano; MICHAEL ELY, piano.
• Grovlez: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso. MARK NOBLE, bassoon; WILLIAM TAYLOR, piano.
• Canteloube: Rustiques. ERIC WAGNER, oboe; BETSY REVEAL, clarinet; MARK NOBLE, bassoon.

Friday, April 4, noon at the Levine School
Featuring works for two pianists

• Bach: Jesu, Joy of Manís Desiring; Organ Sonata in E-flat Major. BARBARA WING and ELIZABETH LANE.
• Bach: Concerto in C Minor (Movement I). Saint-SaÎns: Caprice Arabe, op. 96. TERESITA COQUIA SISON and DAVID M. SEAGER.
• Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. ANN-HSIEN MENG and WEI-DER HUANG.
• Bach: Fugue in G Minor, arr. Kramer. Tchaikovsky: Andantino Marciale from Symphony no. 2, op. 17. arr. A. Schaefer. BEATRICE FRANK and AMY ROTHSTEIN.
• Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56b. Schumann: Andante and Variations, op. 46. IMMANUELA GRUENBERG and BONNIE KELLERT.

• Bach: Italian Concerto. SHARON OLLISON, harpsichord.
• Mozart: Trio, TBD. BARBARA GHOLZ, violin; CECELIE JONES, viola; JAN TIMBERS, cello

• Mozart: Sonata in C Minor, K. 457, BARBARA PETERSON CACKLER, piano
• Bach: from Partita in C minor (transcribed); Dohnanyi: Passacaglia. ANNA RAKOCZY, flute; ELIZABETH WHITE, piano
• American Songs of the Twentieth Century: Barber, Griffes, Hoiby, Copland, Hundley and Duke. YVONNE SABINE, soprano; ELIZABETH WHITE, piano

• Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16, nos. 1-3. CHARLES TIMBRELL, piano.
• Schubert: Der Neurierige; Mein; Du Bist Die Ruh; Aufenthalt. Berger: In Time of Silver Rain; Heart; Carolina Cabin; Lonely People. JAMES HARKLESS, baritone. Clyde Parker, piano (guest artist).
• Boulanger: Trio in E Minor, RUTH ALBRIGHT, violin; CECILIA ROSSITER, cello; ALMA RHODES, piano

• Glazunov: Three Duos for Flute and Clarinet. Aldana: Cantares. Blake: Trio. TOBY ROTMAN, flute; PATRICIA NOMINA, clarinet; BEATRICE FRANK, piano.
• Mendelssohn: Selections from Songs Without Words. BEATRICE FRANK, piano.
• Schubert: LíAbeille. Wieniawski: Mazurka. Kreisler: Gitana. CHRISTINE KHARAZIAN, violin; BEATRICE FRANK, piano.

• Mozart: Sonata in CMinor, K. 457. BARBARA PETERSON CACKLER, piano.
• Spirituals arranged for voice and piano by Women Composers: SHARON GUERTIN SHAFER, voice/piano.
• Selections TBD: MICHAEL BOWYER, flute.

Friday, April 18 ñ No Concert

Sunday, April 20, 7:30 pm
GALA BENEFIT CONCERT
featuring Washington International Competition Vocal Winners
Western Presbyterian Church, 2401 Virginia Avenue, NW. (Two blocks from Watergate. Metro: Foggy Bottom). Reception following.

Program consists of arias and songs by Barber, Bellini, Britten, Delibes, Ives, Schoenberg, and Schubert. Performers are:

• MEREDITH ZARA, SOPRANO - for over a decade the leading coloratura soprano at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Germany
• TRACEY WELLBORN, TENOR - performing in operas throughout the world.
• LESLIE JOHNSON, MEZZO SOPRANO, performing leading roles in many of America's opera companies.
• PATRICIA PARKER, PIANIST

Tuesday, April 22, Noon at Church of the Epiphany
13th and G Streets (1317 G St. NW)
The FMMC Orchestra Concert
(Free admission. Metro: Metro Center)

• Mozart: Symphonia Concertante. MELISSA RUOF, violin; CARL RUBIS, viola.
• Schubert: Symphony No. 5.

Friday, April 25, noon at the Sumner Museum

• Hindemith: Sonata. Stephen Johnston, clarinet; SUE MARSTON BOYD, piano.
• Granados: Selections from Twelve Spanish Dances. CAROL WOLFE-RALPH, piano.
• Martinu: Pastorales. nos. 2, 6 and 4. Rachmaninoff: Andante from Sonata in G Minor, op. 19. JAN TIMBERS, cello; BARBARA WING, piano.

• Masatoshi: Songs of Innocence. SUSAN WHEELER, soprano; NAOKO TAKAO, piano
• Stern: Suite for viola and piano. Performers TBD
• Wang An-Ming: ìSpringî, ìAli Sanî, ìThe Nightingaleî. MIRA YANG, soprano; MICHELLE CHO, flute; HAE WON MIN, piano

• Selections TBA. DEBORAH BROWN, piano
• Ikuma Dan: Higurashi (Cicadas); Ajisai (Hydrangeas).Verdi: from La Traviata: ìEstrano!...Ah, fors' Ë luiî; ìTeneste la promessa...Addio del passatoî. KIMIKO SHIMADA, soprano; YOSHINORI HOSAKA, piano
• Shostakovich: Trio no. 2, op. 67. CECILIE JONES, violin; JAN TIMBERS, cello; DAN FRIEDMAN, piano

• Beethoven: Trio in C Minor, op. 1, no. 3. LAWRENCE WALLACE, violin; JAN TIMBERS, cello; ADELAIDE EDELSON, piano.
• Selection TBD: CHRISTINE KHARAZIAN, violin.

• Bach: Partita in A Minor for solo flute, BWV 1013. JESSICA DUNNAVANT, flute
• Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130. MICHAEL CASASSA and RAMONA MATTHEWS, violin, NICHOLAS FOBE, viola, ALLAN MALMBERG, cello

Thursday, May 15, noon at Gallery at the Ellipse
A program of music for flute ensemble. Selections TBD.

Friday, May 16, noon at the Sumner Museum

• Beethoven: Eight Variations in C Major on Theme by Waldstein, WoO 67. Mendelssohn: Andante and Variations in B flat Major, op. 83a. IMMANUELA GRUENBERG and BONNIE KELLERT, piano duet.
• Strauss: Selections from The Four Last Songs. MARGE PALMIERI, soprano; STEPHEN BROWN, piano.
• Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24. VIRGINIA LUM, piano.

Friday, June 6, noon at Sumner Museum
Snowdate for Friday Concert Series

Friday, June 13, noon at Sumner Museum
Snowdate for Friday Concert Series

Saturday, June 14, 7:30 pm at First Baptist Church
FMMC Chorale, Webster A. Rogers, Jr. Director

• Bach: St. John Passion

 
CONCERT VENUES:
 

Sumner School Museum and Archives, 17th & M Sts. NW, Washington, DC (Metro: Farragut North) Strathmore Hall, 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD (Metro: Grosvenor) Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW, Washington, DC Old Town Hall in City of Fairfax, University Drive at Main St., (Rte. 236), Fairfax, VA Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Boulevard, Bethesda, MD Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, 7931 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, MD The Gallery at the Ellipse, 4350 North Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA (Metro: Ballston) Collington Retirement Community, 10450 Lottsford Rd., Mitchellville, MD

Programs of the Friday Morning Music Club are open to the public free of charge, with no tickets needed. Programs are subject to change without notice. The Friday Morning Music Club is a member of the United Arts Organization. Please support our artistic and educational programs through the United Way or the Combined Federal Campaign by designating #8624.