Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic & Alexandria Choral Society: Holiday Dreams
$35 ($30 senior/military; $5 ages 18 & under)
- Anna Binneweg, conductor
Grace-Evangeline Mason — The Imagined Forest
Various — Selected works (with ACS)
Duke Ellington's iconic take on Tchaikovsky's classic Nutcracker Suite headlines the December 8th concert of the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, under the baton of Music Director Anna Binneweg. The orchestra will also perform Grace-Evangeline Mason's The Imagined Forest, keeping with tradition of performing underrepresented composers.
The second half of the concert features a selection of holiday choral works with the engaging Alexandria Choral Society!
Free "AfterChat with Anna" following the concert. Free for all ticket holders.
Elevator available for disabled seating.
About Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic
WMPA is a 501 c (3) organization dedicated to bringing high-quality innovative and classical live music to the greater Alexandria community. For more information about the WMPA, our TWO youth orchestras, our Summer Sunday Chamber Music series at the Lyceum or our bi-lingual children's story concerts, visit https://www.wmpamusic.org/.
https://www.wmpamusic.org/About Alexandria Choral Society
Alexandria Choral Society (ACS) was formed in 1970 as a component of the Performing Arts Association of Alexandria. ACS was independently incorporated in 1978. Beginning with the vision of founding director Francisco de Araujo, ACS has delighted audiences year in and year out, and the baton has passed from one illustrious hand to the next.
The mission of the Alexandria Choral Society (ACS) is to enhance the cultural life of Alexandria by presenting engaging programs at the highest artistic level. For more than half a century, ACS has striven to enrich the community with a broad spectrum of choral works, from the Renaissance to modern American composers, from small chamber pieces to major works for chorus and orchestra, and from a great variety of musical languages and cultures.
https://www.alexandriachoralsociety.org/About Anna Binneweg, conductor
Overwhelmingly selected as the new Music Director of the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic following a nationwide search culminating in June 2023, Dr. Binneweg brings her enthusiasm for fine community orchestras and innovative programs. Binneweg has worked with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Daniel Barenboim, Robert Spano, James Paul, Michael Morgan, Duaine Wolfe, Nurhan Arman and David Effron through various engagements sponsored by the League of American Orchestras, the Conductors Institute of New York and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She was elected to the board of directors of the International Conductors Guild (2021).
Earning a doctorate degree of music in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University where she studied with Victor Yampolsky, Binneweg has also served on the conducting faculties at Loyola University, the Sherwood Conservatory of Music, and American University.
https://www.wmpamusic.org/annabinneweg.html