Music Events

At the core of the Music program's educational training are a wide variety of curricular performances. All of the performances listed on this page are connected with small ensembles or individual performance study, and all are free and open to the public.

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Fall 2019 Performance Season

Corcoran Music Festival

counter)induction: Futures Past

Friday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m.

counter)induction opens its 20th anniversary season with a concert connecting the Medieval with the contemporary, making music that is emphatically new and peculiarly ancient. Featuring a work by Prof. Douglas Boyce, and performances by Professor Ning Yu.

Flagg Building, Hammer Auditorium
500 17th Street, NW
Washington DC 20006

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Opera Lafayette: John Blow's Venus and Adonis

Nov. 21, 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Opera Lafayette opens its 25th anniversary season featuring the 21st century’s next generation of leadership in early music and dance. These brilliant young artists present Venus and Adonis, the French-inspired chamber opera which prefigured Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

In librettist Anne Kingsmill Finch’s version of this pastoral myth, Venus, the goddess of Love, encourages her lover Adonis to heed the call of the hunt, which he does only reluctantly. Created for the English court, where Venus was played by the king’s mistress and Cupid by their daughter, this ultimately tragic tale is interspersed with humorous scenes that poke fun of courtiers while extolling the virtues of shepherds and true love.

Flagg Building, Atrium Bridge
500 17th Street, NW
Washington DC 20006

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Ensemble Concerts, Cameratas and Recitals

Student Recital: Allison Horvath and Nathan Vasquez

Saturday, November 16 at 3:00 p.m.

Flagg Building, Hammer Auditorium
500 17th Street NW
Washington DC 20006

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GW Bands: New Beginnings

Sunday, November 17 at 1:30 p.m.

Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street NW
Washington DC 20052

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