Lois Smith Jones, President

The Friday Morning Music Club, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

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

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MEMBER NEWS PUBLISHED ON THIS WEB SITE IN DECEMBER 2002

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

Many FMMC members will be performing all around the metropolitan area during the holiday season. For a pleasant musical respite from the hectic activity of the season, consider attending some (or all!) of these performances.

• December 6, 8:00 pm, at The Lyceum in Alexandria. Anna Ouspenskaya, pianist, will perform with Igor Zubkofsky, cellist and winner of Poland's Tansman International Competition. For information, call 703.314.0877, or visit www.triomoskva.org
   
• Sunday, December 8, 5:00 pm, at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 35th and Volta. Victoria Gau will conduct the Georgetown Symphony Orchestra in its annual "Family Concert." The theme is Tall Tales: Stories and Music. This family fun event will include vocalists singing music from Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and drama students from Georgetown Day School. The program will also include Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, and Rossini's William Tell Overture. There will be audience participation opportunities for children and adults and the concert will be preceded by an instrument petting zoo at 4:30 pm. For more information call 202.298.1084.
   
• Sunday, December 15, 3:00 pm, at The Lyceum in Alexandria. Laura Grazyna Kafka, soprano, and Rosanne Conway, piano, will present a joint recitat featuring voice and piano works of Chopin, Gounod, Paderewski, Purcell, Richard Strauss, and others, as well as piano solo works by Chopin and Liszt. An artist's reception follows the concert.
   
• Amanda Balestrieri will perform on December 20, 21, and 22. The program is Handel's Messiah with the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Herbert Dimmock, director. Tickets and information: www.charm.net/~hcob
   
• Tuesday, December 31, 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Teresa Meeks will play music for unaccompanied flute at First Night Alexandria in the lobby of The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Old Town, Alexandria, VA. Admission is $15. For more information, call 703.838.4200 or visit www.firstnightalexandria.org.
   
• On January 16, 2003, at 7:30 pm, on the Vocal Arts Society Series in the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, Randall Scarlata, baritone, and Marcy Rosen, cello, will perform Lori Laitman's new song cycle, Long Pond Revisited. The cycle sets five poems of Maine poet C.G.R.Shepard who will also be in attendance. For more information, please visit www.vocalartssociety.org
   

PAST PERFORMANCES AND OTHER NEWS:

• The Smithsonian Associates presented Victoria Bragin, co-winner of the 2002 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, in a sold-out concert on Sunday, October 27th at the Ring Auditorium of the Hirshhorn Museum. She performed Haydn's Sonata in F, Hob. XVI:23, selected Préludes by Debussy (La Puerta del Vino, Bruyères, Feux d'artifice), Bartók's Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20, and Chopin's Sonata in B minor.
   
• Barbara Wing and Elizabeth Lane presented a Young People's Concert for Two Pianos on November 16th at the Levine School of Music. Their program included music by Bach, Mussorgsky, Milhaud, Bennett, and Bernstein.
   
• The Chesapeake String Quarter (Michael Casassa, Ramona Matthews, Nicholas Fobe, and Allan Malmberg) recent schedule included the following performances: Sunday, November 10, for the Rock Creek Chamber Players in the NIH Clinical Center, and Sunday, December 1, at 12 noon, at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church.

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