Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn, considered one of the greatest of her generation, performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor in a program conducted by Cornelius Meister that also includes fantasy-influenced works by Dvorak, Janacek and Richard Strauss. Hahn will sign CDs afterwards in the Grand Foyer.
Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m., and Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to $89. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
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Borisevich Duo -- Longtime Alden favorites pianist Margarita Loukachkina and violinist Nikita Borisevich return with their young pianist son for an afternoon of chamber music performed as a family affair (10/25)
Duo Mosaic -- Popular pianist Ching-Yi Lin returns with his wife and musical partner Grace Liu for the first concert in decades to feature both of The Alden's Steinway pianos (11/22)
Junwen Liang, piano -- The rising Chinese pianist arrives after a busy season of more than 30 recital and educational appearances across the United States, China, and Canada (1/24)
Ars Populi -- Six unaccompanied voices explore the meeting point between art and folk music, moving from Renaissance madrigals and Scottish Gaelic ballads to modern standards (2/28)
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, Md.
From a storied real-life encounter between composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussian ruler Frederick the Great, Oliver Cotton’s The Score spins a dramatic clash between power and resistance.
It’s 1747, and J.S. Bach, an artist revered in his own time, has the stature and opportunity to speak for the people right to the face of the warmongering king. Whether he can or will show such fortitude forms the crux of Cotton’s seriocomic play, making its U.S. premiere at Shakespeare Theatre following an acclaimed run at Theatre Royal Bath in the U.K.
Theater legend Trevor Nunn’s well-constructed production has made its way here with much of its cast and creative team intact, leading with redoubtable Succession star Brian Cox as musical genius Bach, who, initially, is unsure he even wants an audience with King Frederick.
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