September 6, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – A Homeland We Carry is a one-hour musical narrative about growing up Iranian—told through lullabies, poetry, folk traditions, and contemporary voices of the Iranian diaspora. At its heart, this program is about a homeland. Not politics. Not the headlines. But a place carried in memory, in sound, and in the quiet ways people live […]
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September 10, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Washington Bach Consort proudly presents Danqi Zeng, Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Lillian & Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition—a forum devoted exclusively to Bach’s unaccompanied string works. A rising figure in historical performance, Zeng is praised for her eloquence, stylistic insight, and naturally communicative artistry. Her interpretations unite rhetorical clarity with expressive […]
September 11, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – The Washington Bach Consort proudly presents Danqi Zeng, Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Lillian & Maurice Barbash International J.S. Bach Competition—a forum devoted exclusively to Bach’s unaccompanied string works. A rising figure in historical performance, Zeng is praised for her eloquence, stylistic insight, and naturally communicative artistry. Her interpretations unite rhetorical clarity with expressive […]
September 11, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Blood of the Rose is a seamless curation of Baroque music from across Europe and Latin America, with a focus on Spanish and Latin American music and Venus and Adonis-inspired works. In five musical “chapters,” punctuated by spoken excerpts from Calderón’s lush libretto, this dramatic program depicts Venus and Adonis’s blossoming romance, Mars’s vicious […]
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September 12, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Emmanuel Adriaenssen’s Pratum Musicum (1584) stands as one of the most important lute publications of the late Renaissance. This collection features intabulations—lute arrangements—of well-known vocal works from France and Italy, alongside a selection of Dutch songs that were omitted in the expanded 1592 reprint. Drawing inspiration from prominent European composers, Adriaenssen not only adapted their […]
