Trailblazing Women of Country

Performing Arts Live

Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly

Featuring Miko Marks & Kristina Train

Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists. With their chart-topping hits, record-breaking sales and designations in the Country Music Hall of Fame, their singular voices defied restrictive social norms, proving that women can be at once beautiful and strong, vulnerable and powerful. In an entertaining and inspiring tribute to these trailblazing women, singer/songwriter Miko Marks (named CMT’s 2022 “Next Woman of Country”) and Nashville-based singer Kristina Train lead a five-piece all-star female band in an evening of music that harnesses country’s rich storytelling traditions and the shared legacy of musical excellence and unapologetic authenticity of these unforgettable legends of American music.

Live Opera: Moscow, Cheryomushki

Friday, April 26 at 7:30PM
Saturday, April 27 at 7:30PM
Sunday, April 28 at 2:30PM

Main Stage Opera with Symphony Orchestra

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Arranged by Gerard McBurney
Libretto by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky
Main Stage Opera provides audiences with the full opera experience! This year’s production follows a group of friends in the post-Stalin era living in Cheryomuskhi, a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing. During the wake of political and societal change, the friends are re-housed in the city’s new high density apartments, and their lives rapidly unravel — relationships are challenged and corruption seeps in at the seams. A satirical musical comedy in three acts, the operetta features lively choruses, polkas and jazz-influenced turns performed expertly by our very own

Symphony Orchestra.

Sung in English with subtitles

Directed by Ella Marchment
Music direction by Emanuele Andrizzi
English translation by David Poutney

Little Big Band

New Music

The Little Big Band premieres compositions and arrangements by students, faculty and friends of the group.

Edge Ensemble

Shenandoah New Music
Eclectic City

Join the EDGE Ensemble for a collaboration with guest composer-curator Tom Nazziola, as he leads an evening of works created from diverse perspectives. Featuring works by Nazziola and others, this is EDGE with a new attitude and an alternate angle.

Wind Ensemble Concert

Time & Space
Featuring Quinn Mason, composer

The Wind Ensemble presents composer Quinn Mason’s Symphony No. 4 (“Strange Time”), a large-scale work depicting a journey into a space time continuum, which challenges the very idea of the perception of time and reality in a musical setting. Additional performance highlights include a concerto featuring Shenandoah Conservatory’s Assistant Professor of Percussion Karlyn Viña and more.

Studio Big Band

The Legacy of Ellington & Strayhorn

The Studio Big Band celebrates the legacy of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Billy Strayhorn, a musical collaboration resulting in hundreds of compositions rooted deep in the Great American Songbook.

SPHINX VIRTUOSI

Performing Arts Live

Ay sí,
it’s my turn
to oh say
what I see,
I’m going to sing America!
– Julia Alvarez

Then, besides
They’ll see how beautiful I am…
I, too, am America
– Langston Hughes

Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and Julia Alvarez, Sphinx Virtuosi presents a program showcasing the beauty and tradition of excellence inherent in classical music created and performed by generations of Black and Latinx composers. Their rich program, which features many new works for the ensemble, seeks to uplift spirits through sharing the sounds that inspire them — transcending the boundaries of time, history and struggle. As the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization, the eighteen-piece ensemble embodies the nonprofit organization’s social justice mission and dedication to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts and elevating our collective humanity.

Program

Quenton Xavier Blache: Habari Gani
Javier Farías: Abran Paso
Andrea Casarrubios: Herencia
Adolphus Hailstork: Selections from Sonata da Chiesa
Xavier Foley: Concertante for Two Double Bass Soloists with String Orchestra
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 (“Generations”)

Live Music: Bruce Corsino

Piano-Vocal recording artist Bruce Corsino will appear LIVE to belt out his versions of The Great American Songbook—the standards, blues, popular and Broadway tunes you know and love. This FREE show is sponsored by the James Charles Winery and Vineyard in the hills of Winchester, Virginia and one of the most stunning locations in the Virginia wine country.

Head there for a great day of music, wine and food you’ll remember.

Admission fee:
FREE

 

Live Music: Bruce Corsino

Piano-Vocal recording artist Bruce Corsino will appear LIVE to belt out his versions of The Great American Songbook—the standards, blues, popular and Broadway tunes you know and love. This FREE show is sponsored by the James Charles Winery and Vineyard in the hills of Winchester, Virginia and one of the most stunning locations in the Virginia wine country.

Head there for a great day of music, wine and food you’ll remember.

Admission fee:
FREE

 

Live Music: Joseph Henson Quartet

The Joseph Henson Quartet is back at The Flat 9 Jazz Club! Come listen to Joseph’s mastermind playing as he and his artists change the atmosphere with their own musical perspectives.
Admission fee: $15