Lois Smith Jones, President

The Friday Morning Music Club, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

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MEMBER NEWS PUBLISHED ON THIS WEB SITE IN JANUARY 2003

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:

• In January, Immanuela Gruenberg will perform two very different programs on three concerts.
  • For a Lecture-Recital of piano music by Israeli composers, Immanuela will be joined by musicologist Ronit Seter (PhD candidate, Cornell University). on Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 2 pm in the Jane Lang Recital Hall, The Levine School of Music, 2801 Upton St. NW in Washington. Phone: 202-686-9772 or 301-838-7625. Free and open to the public. The same program will be presented later that month at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Immanuela and musicologist Ronit Seter will present a selection of Israeli pieces from the 1940s to the 1980s. The event will highlight the works of the Mediterranean composers Paul Ben-Haim and Alexander Boskovich; the avant garde Josef Tal; diametrically opposed Tzvi Avni and Andre Hajdu, and a rarely performed childhood composition by Pulitzer Prize laureate Shulamit Ran. The event will also showcase a piece by Mordecai Seter, a composer who transcended categorizaion, performed by his grandson. Finally, the event will include a discussion of folk Israeli music as it is embraced, internalized and employed by the leading art composers.
  • On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 12 noon, Immanuela Gruenberg will perform an All-Haydn recital: Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6, Adagio in F Major, Hob. XVII:9, Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 and the Fantasia (Capriccio) in C Major, Hob. XVII:4. The recital will take place at The Church of the Epiphany, with its fine acoustics and beautiful Steinway Concert grand. 1317 G Street, NW in Washington. Ph: 202-347-2635. http://www.epiphanydc.org/music.html
  
   
• The ensemble Laropa will give a concert on Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 7:30pm at Saint Augustine's Episcopal Church, Sixth Street and Maine Avenue, SW (right near the Arena Stage), as part of the Southwest Chamber Players series of programs. The group, comprising Paul Balabanis, Horn; Robin Barr, Oboe; Paul Chassy, Bassoon, Laura Langbein, Clarinet, Jackie Miller, Flute, and Robert Rosen, Piano, will play the Mozart Quintet for Winds and Piano, K. 452, the Thieriot em>Quintet for Winds and Piano, Opus 80 and the Thuille Sextet for Winds and Piano, Opus 6. Admission to the concert is free but a donation is appreciated.
   
• Milt Stevens reports on the upcoming concerts of the Washington Symphonic Brass of which he is the conductor:

  The eagerly awaited concert programÝ"The Planets and Beyond" will be performed three times during January.Ý Please help support our concerts and please forward this attachment and information to other interested music lovers. The program will feature four movements from The Planets by Gustav Holst: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter.Ý Hear Star Wars by John Williams, The Perfect Fool by Holst, Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael played by horn soloist Marty Hackleman, Angels by Carl Ruggles, and Don Giovanni's Ride to Hell by Jan Koetsier played by tuba soloist Robinson Love.

  Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, are only $20 for adults and $10 for students.Ý The three locations and dates are:

  • Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 3:00 p.m. at Saint Luke Catholic Church; McLean, VA
  • Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Anne's Episcopal Church; Annapolis, MD
  • Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. at National Presbyterian Church; Washington, DC

  For more info, you may download the flyer sent by Milt by clicking here.
   
• 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
   
• February 7,(evening) and February 9,(afternoon) 2003,is a Chamber Music recital, with Amanda Balestrieri, soprano, and Timothy Summers, violin. This is a part of the exciting new Virginia Salon Series at the intimate chamber space in the Lyceum, Alexandria, Virginia. For more information, and to be included in the mailing list, call Mike Miller at 301-523-2195.
   
• Darren Perry is the baritone soloist in Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, which will be performed by the University of Maryland Chorus, Chorale, Chamber Singers and Orchestra.Ý Darren was a winner of the FMMC vocal competition last spring.Ý Two performances are scheduled: the first on Thursday, February 20 at 8:00 pm and another on Sunday, February 23 at 3:00 pm in the Dekelboum Concert Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland (301-405-ARTS; 301-405-2787).