Events
Cloyce K. Huston Musicales
Guided by Music Committee Chair Marilyn Wong Gleysteeen, Ph. D., the Music Committee presents four to eight recitals each year in the spring and fall months. Announced first in the Bulletin, the musicales at 3:00 pm on Sundays offer performances by rising and seasoned vocalists and instrumentalists, singly and in ensembles, in an intimate atmosphere. The Steinway grand piano was selected and played by Artur Rubinstein. Each member may invite one accompanied guest. Starting in the Fall of 2009, there will be an admission charge of $10 for each member and guest attending.
A Brief History of the Musicales
Upcoming Musicales
Save the Date!
~Coming in Fall 2010~
Please see Program Descriptions below to view upcoming Musicales
in Fall 2010.
~ Coming in Spring and Fall 2011 ~
March 20, 2011 – Vinca Quartet
performing Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
May 8, 2011 – Le Grand Desir
vocal and instrumentalists from the
October 23, 2011 – Armonia Nova
returns with Myths, Miracles and Magical Thinking
December 4, 2011 –
Berta Rojas on classical guitar
Program Descriptions
Sunday October 17 , 2010,
will feature mezzo-soprano Barbara Hollinshead, a DACOR
favorite, who returns to sing with bass-baritone Steven Combs
in a late nineteenth century program centering on the music of
Gustav Mahler and his Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s
Magic Horn), as well as lieder by Johannes Brahms from his Opus 28
set, and a group by Samuel Barber.
November 14,
2010,
the Sage Chamber Players will present an afternoon of
the string and woodwind music of Felix Mendelssohn, Igor
Stravinsky, Rebecca Clarke, and, to highlight the
program, Gabriel Fauré’s 2nd piano quartet. The Sage
Players are violinists Hannah Eldridge and Nancy Jin,
violist Kyung LeBlanc and clarinetist Joseph
LeBlanc, who perform with the Washington National Opera, the
Richmond Orchestra and the Marine Band, and ‘cellist Sean
Neidlinger and pianist Jenifer
Yeo.
December 5, 2010, closes
the year with the women’s choral group Illuminare, led
by director Vera Kochanowsky on harpsichord in a holiday
program that will include Brahms’ rarely performed lieder for female
voices, with pianist Steven Silverman. Bacon House will be decorated
for the season, and we will offer our traditional mulled wine
as refreshment along with the festive music.
