Round out your Conference week with performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic. (Advance registration and additional fee required.)
Thursday, June 16, 7:00 pm
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Mark O'Connor, violin
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
Mark O’Connor: Double Concerto for Two Violins
Edward Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma Variations"
Conference delegates are invited to a 20-minute Jaffe Holden Acoustics Tour featuring the acoustical design of the John F. Kennedy Center Concert Hall immediately following the concert.
Buses to the Kennedy Center will leave from the T Street entrance on the Terrace Level (one floor below the lobby) of the Washington Hilton and Towers between 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm.
Tune-Up Party
Thursday, June 16, 9:00 pm
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Atrium and Foyers, Roof Terrace Level
You’ve enjoyed a wonderful evening of music by the National Symphony Orchestra, now mingle with colleagues and friends at the Tune-Up Party hosted by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Friday, June 17, 8:00 pm
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore
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Saturday, June 18, 8:00 pm
Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Vadim Repin, violin
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Brewbaker: Violin Concerto (world premiere)
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Buses to the Friday evening concert at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore will leave promptly at 6:00 pm from the T Street entrance on the Terrace Level (one floor below the lobby) of the Washington Hilton and Towers.
To get to the Music Center at Strathmore, take the Metro from the Dupont Circle Station to the Strathmore/Grosvenor station, (8 stops on the Red Line towards Shady Grove) and walk to the Music Center through a covered skyway. This trip will take approximately 45 minutes from door to door including a ten minute walk down Connecticut Ave. to the Dupont Circle Station. Round trip tickets may be purchased at the Metro station for $4.50.
National Philharmonic
Friday, June 17, 8:00 pm
Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda
Performance-Demonstration
Experience a concert hall as you never have before. The National Philharmonic under Maestro Piotr Gajewski, design team members from Kirkegaard Associates and Theatre Projects Consultants, and architects William Rawn Associates and Grimm & Parker demonstrate the visible and invisible features of the design responsible for making the new Music Center at Strathmore a concert hall for the 21st century.
Piotr Gajewski, conductor
Sandra Meei Cameron, violin
Larry Kirkegaard, Kirkegaard Associates, host
Michael Nishball, Theatre Projects Consultants
William Rawn, William Rawn Associates
National Philharmonic Chorale
Stan Engebretson, artistic director, National Philharmonic Chorale
Gerber: Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A
Mozart: Overture to The Impresario, K. 486
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
To get to the Music Center at Strathmore, take the Metro from the Dupont Circle Station to the Strathmore/Grosvenor station, (8 stops on the Red Line towards Shady Grove) and walk to the Music Center through a covered skyway. This trip will take approximately 45 minutes from door to door including a ten minute walk down Connecticut Ave. to the Dupont Circle Station. Round trip tickets may be purchased at the Metro station for $4.50.