Women composers – Upcoming Concerts near Ashburn, VA

George Gershwin — Porgy and Bess (Introduction)
James P. Johnson — Harlem Symphony ("III. The Night Club")
George Gershwin — "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy (arr. Hershey Kay)
James P. Johnson — Charleston
Florence Price — Symphony No. 1 in E minor ("III. Juba Dance")
William Grant Still — Lenox Avenue ("Blues")
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" ("III. Animato")

George Gershwin — Porgy and Bess (Introduction)
James P. Johnson — Harlem Symphony ("III. The Night Club")
George Gershwin — "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy (arr. Hershey Kay)
James P. Johnson — Charleston
Florence Price — Symphony No. 1 in E minor ("III. Juba Dance")
William Grant Still — Lenox Avenue ("Blues")
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" ("III. Animato")

George Gershwin — Porgy and Bess (Introduction)
James P. Johnson — Harlem Symphony ("III. The Night Club")
George Gershwin — "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy (arr. Hershey Kay)
James P. Johnson — Charleston
Florence Price — Symphony No. 1 in E minor ("III. Juba Dance")
William Grant Still — Lenox Avenue ("Blues")
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" ("III. Animato")

Sharon Guertin Shafer — The Soul of Things
Leslie Bennett — Autumn
Leslie Bennett — Vincent Van Gogh

Program includes works by Margaret Bonds, Harry Burleigh, Richard Smallwood, Damien Sneed, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Strauss, and George Gershwin.

Traditional — Guide My Feet (arr. Jester Hairston)
Richard Wagner — Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91
Francis Poulenc — Les Chemins de l'amour ("The pathways of love"), FP 106-Ia
Aaron Copland — Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
William Grant Still — Songs of Separation
Jasmine Barnes — Proverb (Kennedy Center premiere)
Peter Ashbourne — Five Songs for Soprano and Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Anna Clyne — Breathing Statues (D.C. premiere, Kennedy Center co-commission)
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Leoš Janáček — String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”

Hugo Wolf — Selected works
Lili Boulanger — Selected works
Joseph Schwantner — Selected works

Jessie Montgomery — Hymn for Everyone (NSO premiere/co-commission)
Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (Conrad Tao, piano & William Gerlach, trumpet)
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Elizabeth Ogonek — Selected works (new work TBA)
Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 (Jonathan Carney, violin & Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello)
Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Jessie Montgomery — Hymn for Everyone (NSO premiere/co-commission)
Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (Conrad Tao, piano & William Gerlach, trumpet)
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Elizabeth Ogonek — Selected works (new work TBA)
Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 (Jonathan Carney, violin & Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello)
Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Osvaldo Golijov — Arum dem Fayer
Jessie Montgomery — Banner
Juantio Becenti — The Glittering World
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Elizabeth Ogonek — Selected works (new work TBA)
Johannes Brahms — Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102 (Jonathan Carney, violin & Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello)
Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100

Program includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Enescu, Paul Wiancko, Du Yun, Nicola Matteis, Salina Fisher, Matthew Burtner, Angélica Negrón, Giuseppe Colombi, and Thuridur Jónsdóttir.

Dorothy Chang — Precipice
Béla Bartók — Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major Sz. 95 BB 101
Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 5

Gabriella Smith — Carrot Revolution
The Beatles — Selected works (arr. Alexander Vittel; "Abbey Road Suite")
Daniel Bernard Roumain — String Quartet No. 5, "Rosa Parks"
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"

Catherine Lamb — The Additive Arrow (Washington, DC premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19

Catherine Lamb — The Additive Arrow (Washington, DC premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19

Felix Mendelssohn — Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81 (2 selections)
Paul Wiancko — Benkei's Standing Death
György Kurtág — Fragments from the Scrapbooks of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Op. 37 (Duos for Soprano & Double Bass)
Amy Beth Kirsten — yes I said yes I will Yes
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

Maurice Ravel — La valse
Franz Liszt — Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514
Florence Price — Fantasie nègre No. 2 in G minor
Florence Price — Fantasie nègre No. 4 in B minor

Johannes Brahms — Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Amy Beach — Romance for violin & piano, Op. 23
Nokuthula Ngwenyama — A Bishop's Procession
George Gershwin — "Bess, you is my woman now" from Porgy and Bess (arr. Jascha Heifetz)
George Gershwin — "It Ain’t Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess (arr. Jascha Heifetz)
William Grant Still — Suite for Violin and Piano