Concerts

The Washington Men's Camerata announces its 29th Season of exceptional music-making in the Washington area. 

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Christmas with the Camerata - A Washington Tradition - Music to lighten the heart and enrich the soul.

Saturday, December 8 at 8:00 pm

Fairlington United Methodist Church, 3900 King St., Alexandria VA

Sunday, December 9 at 4:00 pm

Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, 6601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, MD

Sunday, December 16 at 4:00 pm

The Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St., NW, Washington, DC (Metro Center)

With a Poet's Eye -The centerpiece of this program is an unusual setting of the Wallace Stevens poem "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Joseph Ohrt, the conductor at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, PA, commissioned 13 living composers to each set one line of the poem. Each movement is less than one minute long, and the pieces progress completely around the Circle of Fifths.  It's a tour-de-force featuring beautiful miniatures by some of today's most prominent choral composers.

The rest of the program features a wide variety of selections ranging from Renaissance madrigals and Elizabethan glees to folk songs and beloved classics.  The Camerata will perform Morten Lauridsen's beautiful setting of "Sure on This Shining Night" for the first time, along with settings of poetry by Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Shakespeare, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Robert Herrick and William Butler Yeats.  Featured composers include Orlando Lassus, Randall Thompson, Orlando Gibbons, Charles Ives, Michael Head and more. You won't want to miss this beautiful and fascinating program of exquisite settings of beautiful texts!

Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 4:00 pm

The Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St., NW, Washington, DC (Metro Center)

The Great American Songbook

Classics from the first half of the 20th century that have become favorites around the world. We'll perform music by Gershwin, Rodgers, Kern, Porter and more, with special guests, soprano Rosa Lamoreaux and the Rock Creek Singers, Thea Kano, conductor.

Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm, Terrace Theater, J.F. Kennedy Center

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