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Lois Jones, President

The Friday Morning Music Club, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

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CONCERT SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND EARLY NOVEMBER 2003

Sunday, September 28, 2:00 p.m. in the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center.
The Arthur Nagle Memorial Concert, with YOSHIKAZU NAGAI, piano, a first-place winner of the 2002 Washington International Competition.
  • Scarlatti: Three sonatas.
  • Menotti: Ricercare and Toccata on a theme from The Old Maid and the Thief.
  • Liszt: Mephisto Waltz ; Gretchen am Spinnrade.
  • Haydn: Sonata in A flat Major, Hob. XVI:46.
  • Prokofiev: Sonata in B flat Major, op. 83.
Thursday, October 2, 11:00 AM at Strathmore Hall Arts Center
  • Brahms: Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 (Four Intermezzi, Ballade, Romance). ALDO RAGONE, piano
  • Paul Nasto: Falling into the Music (A song cycle to poems of Rumi). HARLIE SPONAUGLE, soprano; BARBARA WILKINSON, piano.
  • Copland: Vitebsk ; Piazzolla: Two Tangos. RAMONA MATTHEWS, violin; JAN TIMBERS, cello; ENOCH GORDIS, piano.
     
Friday, October 3, 12:00 noon at the Sumner Museum.
(Official opening concert of the season; reception to follow.)
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A program in collaboration with Cultural Tourism DC, a city-wide event
Blues & Dreams: Celebrating the African-American Experience in Washington, D.C.
Music by Roland Hayes, William Grant Still, Scott Joplin and other African-American composers, as well as Puccini and Schubert. Performances by LORETTA GILES, mezzo-soprano; RAYMOND JACKSON, piano; MARGARET and GLENN PATTERSON, piano and string bass; and VIRGINIA E. HAYES-WILLIAMS, soprano (guest artist).
Thursday, October 9, 12:00 noon at the Gallery of the Ellipse
  • J. S. Bach: Partita in B Minor, BWV 1002. HELMUT BRAUNLICH, violin.
  • Jo Lombard: A Sephardic Remembrance of Sarajevo . Heinrich Bärmann: Adagio from Quintet in E flat, op. 23 . BARBARA GHOLZ and MARILYN SCHWANER, violins; CECILIE JONES, viola, BRIGITTA CZERNIK GRUENTHER, cello; GEOFFREY FLOLO, clarinet.
  • Schubert: Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F, D.487. BILLIE ANDERTON, violin; ANN ELMQUIST, viola; BRIGITTA CZERNIK GRUENTHER, cello; BEATRICE LUBEN FRANK, piano.
Friday, October 10, 12:00 noon at the Sumner Museum
  • Haydn: Sonata in C Major, Hob.XVI:50. BARBARA PETERSON CACKLER, piano.
  • Berlinski: Sonata. JESSICA DUNNAVANT, flute; ROY HAKES, piano (guest artist).
  • Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C Minor, op. 66. LAWRENCE WALLACE, violin; MARION BAKER, cello (guest artist); VIRGINIA LUM, ppianoiano.
Sunday, Oct. 12, 3:00 pm at the Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art
A Recital Featuring the Winners of the 2003 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players. This concert is presented by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Admission: $16 for non-members. Free admission to Friday Morning Music Club Members
Tuesday, October 14, 12:00 noon at Dumbarton House.
Music ca. 1800.
  • C.P.E. Bach: Two Duets. MOLLY MOSES, flute; CHRISTINE KHARAZIAN, violin.
  • J.S. Bach: Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010. JONATHAN VELSEY, cello.
  • Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, op. 20, no. 4. BARBARA GHOLZ and CONSTANCE MILNER, violins; CECILIE JONES, viola; EARL WILLIAMS, cello.
Thursday, October 16, 11:00 at the Collington Auditorium.
  • Berlioz: Selected Songs from Les nuits d'été, Op. 7. ANITA HO, soprano; ELIZABETH WHITE, piano.
  • Debussy: Estampes (Pagodes, Evening in Granada, Gardens in the Rain). Ravel: Jeux d'eau. MARGARET PATTERSON, piano.
  • Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, op. 76, no. 5. PATRICIA COCHRAN and CECILIE JONES, violins; ROBERT HUESMANN, viola. JAN TIMBERS, ccelloello.
Thursday, October 16, 11:00 at the Old Town Hall Fairfax.
  • Grieg The Haugtussa, Op. 67 (Song Cycle). BONITA LESTINA, mezzo-soprano; JUDITH HARRISON, piano.
  • Smetana: The Moldau, for two pianos. SOPHIA PALLAS and JULIAN TRAIL, pianos.
  • Donna Kelly Eastman: Arctic Suit, for flute quartet. AMY CAVAZOS, LINDA EAGLESON, TOBY ROTMAN, TERESA SPISAK, flutes.
Friday, October 17, 12:00 noon at the Sumner School Museum
  • Selections TBA. AMY THOMAS, flute. MIYUKI K. YOSHIKAMI, koto.
  • Rorem: Songs on American Poetry, op. 49. SHARON GUERTIN SHAFER, soprano/piano.
  • J. S. Bach: Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008. JOHN KABOFF, cello.
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2:00 pm at the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW
A Concert in Memory of PHYLLIS GIESELER YOUNG
Program: Schumann, Liszt, Cantaloube, Falla and Guastavino
ELIZABETH HART, soprano, and NANCY ROLDAN, piano
Metro: Foggy Bottom
Friday, October 24, 12:00 noon at the Sumner School Museum
  • Elgar: Sonata, op. 82. ANN ELMQUIST, violin; LI-LY CHANG, piano.
  • Schubert: Variations on an Original Theme in B flat Major, op. 82 no. 2; Rondo in A Major, op. 107. HSIEN- MENG and WEI-DER HUANG, pianos.
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003, 11:00 am at the Strathmore Hall Arts Center, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD
  • Three Love Songs from the Bengali, WINIFRED HYSON ANDREA SCHEWE, mezzo-soprano, CARRIE ROSE, flute, DOUG WOLTERS, cello
  • Ever Flows the Silent Stream and Rapture, RUTH NORMAN, composer and pianist
  • Of Devine Love, ANNETTE POULARD, soprano, RUTH NORMAN, piano
  • Angelica Hungarica and Leonids at Play, RAMONA MATTHEWS, violin, RON DICUS, composer and pianist
Tuesday, October 28, 12 noon at the Womanís Club of Chevy Chase
(reception to follow
  • Chopin: Scherzo in E Major, op. 54. CHEN-LI TZENG, piano
  • Selected opera duets: ELIZABETH K. VRENIOS, soprano; ARIANNE HADLEY LOWELL, mezzo-soprano; LINDA ELLINWOOD, piano.
  • Beethoven: Sonata in F Major, op. 24 no. 5. NAYIRI POOCHIKIAN, violin; KARINE MURADYAN, piano.
Friday, October 31, 12:00 noon at Sumner School Museum
  • Arnold Cooke: Clarinet Concerto (selected movements). NANCY GENOVESE, clarinet; AMY ROTHSTEIN, piano.
  • Leopold Godowsky: A transcription combining two Chopin Etudes. op. 10, no.11 and op. 25, no. 3. Charles-Valentin Alkan: Barcarolle in G Minor, op. 65. Chopin: Scherzo in B-flat Min, op. 31. TZVETAN KONSTANTINOV, piano.
  • Prokofiev: Sonata, op. 119. JONATHAN VELSEY, cello; VIRGINIA LUM, piano.
Thursday, November 6, 11:00 am at Strathmore Hall
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Notturno. Judith Lang Zaimont: Nocturne: La fin de siËcle. BETTY ANN MILLER, piano.
  • Yoshinao Nakada: Kiri no Hana (Paulownia Flowers). Saburo Moroi: Shounen (A Boy). Junji Mitsuishi: "Yumemita monowa..." (What I dreamed...). Donizetti: "Regnava nel silenzio" from Lucia di Lammermoor. KIMIKO SHIMADA, soprano; YOSHINORI HOSAKA, piano.
  • Beethoven: Variations on Bei M”nnern, welche Liebe f¸hlen.. Villa-Lobos: Berceuse, op. 50. Dvorak: Waldesruhe(Klid). BRIGITTA CZERNIK GRUENTHER, cello;; MARY KATHRYN TRAVER, piano.
Friday, November 7, 11:00 am at the Sumner School Museum
  • Haydn: Quartet in D Major, op. 20, no. 4. JEAN PROVINE and GRACE BOERINGER, violins; DONALD MACLEAN, viola; BRIGITTA CZERNIK GRUENTHER, cello. <;li>Theobald Boehm: Grande polonaise, op. 16. LAURA BENNING, flute; ALFRED CLARK, piano.
  • Martinu: Trio No. 3 in C. HELMUT BRAUNLICH, violin; BRIGITTA CZERNIK GRUENTHER, cello; CLAIR PRICE ROZIER, piano..
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.