20% Discount on INTERSECTIONS Festival Tickets

Alt Classical: New Music at INTERSECTIONS

Enjoy 20% off when you purchase tickets to three or more new music performances at INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival.

Choices include:

* Capital City Symphony: New Atmospheres for Orchestra - 2/25 & 2/26

* Great Noise Ensemble: Guerrilla New Music - 3/2

* Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra: The Re-write of Spring - 3/8

* Vivre Musicale & Full Circle Dance Company - 3/11

* Harmonious Blacksmiths: MIMESIS - 3/11

All performances are at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002

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FREE Noontime Concert @ Library of Congress 2/23/12 -- featuring Doug Bowles, Karin Paludan, and Alex Hassan

Register by 1/26 for the CCS Chamber Music Jam & Dinner

Back by Popular Demand! 

The Capital City Symphony's 2nd Chamber Music Jam and Dinner.
Saturday, January 28, 2012 

from 4:00-8:00pm

at Bethesda Presbyterian Church

7611 Clarendon Road, Bethesda, MD

(near the Bethesda Metro)

Advance registration is required BY THURSDAY 1/26 (so that we can have a headcount for dinner, and so that we can have the right assortment of music.)

REGISTER NOW!

Do you like playing chamber music with friends? Fancy listening to others make ensemble music in a relaxed setting? Want to support your local community orchestra by joining us for dinner?

Come join members of the Capital City Symphony and other local musicians for socializing, sightreading, and supper.

Professional and accomplished amateur musicians (including talented teens) are encouraged to bring their instruments, and others will be able to relax and enjoy music from a variety of composers, eras, and instrument combinations while roaming from room to room.

Includes a homemade dinner of chili (meat and veggie options), cornbread, and salad, plus homemade desserts.

Come to play, or just to listen!

$40 Full Event (musicians)

$25 Dinner Only (non-musicians)

All by $15 is tax-deductible.

This is a Fundraiser for the Capital City Symphony.

Capital City Symphony CHAMBER MUSIC JAM & DINNER 1/28/12

Back by Popular Demand! 

The Capital City Symphony's 2nd Chamber Music Jam and Dinner.

Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 4-8pm 

at Bethesda Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD.

Advance registration is required (so that we can have a headcount for dinner, and so that we can have the right assortment of music.)

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Do you like playing chamber music with friends? Fancy listening to others make ensemble music in a relaxed setting? Want to support your local community orchestra by joining us for dinner?

Come join members of the Capital City Symphony and other local musicians for socializing, sightreading, and supper.

Professional and accomplished amateur musicians are encouraged to bring their instruments, and others will be able to relax and enjoy music from a variety of composers, eras, and instrument combinations while roaming from room to room.

Come to play, or just to listen. Includes a homemade dinner of chili (meat and veggie options), cornbread, and salad, plus homemade desserts!

A Fundraiser for the Capital City Symphony.

Washington Revels' "Andalusian Treasures" is just stunning!

Washington Revels' "Andalusian Treasures" opened this past weekend, and I have to say that personally, I found it to be just stunning. I have been encouraging my friends and personal contacts to come see the show, based just on the advance publicity information. Now, however, having seen the show myself, I wanted to reach out one more time and encourage folks to COME SEE THIS SHOW!

Andalusian Treasures is a truly multi-cultural production, showcasing the Golden Age of Spain, when Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religion and culture flourished side by side. There's humor, poetry, music, dance, an adorable kids' chorus, chances for the audience to join in the singing and dancing, and just a powerful sense of community. 

I think Washington Revels achieved what they say on their website: "We celebrate the legacy of the extraordinary flowering of arts and culture that began in medieval Andalusia, and honor the symbol that it has become (however imperfect and uneven the reality) of the ideal of a greater tolerance and acceptance among different religions and cultures."

Please share the show information below with your own contacts. This show deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible.

WASHINGTON REVELS: 2011 Christmas Revels Production

Washington Revels present "Andalusian Treasures: Jewish, Arabic, and Spanish music, dance and drama."

Two adventures... three ancient cultures... four hundred years of treasures!

This December travel back in time more than 1000 years to al-Andalus to experience the music, dance and drama of three great cultures – Sephardic Jewish, Arabic and Iberian – in one great country as Washington Revels celebrates the art and music of this unique time.

Joined by special guest ensembles Trio Sefardi and Layali El Andalus, we’ll celebrate with poignant Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian music, lively Spanish folk dances and songs, a Hanukkah celebration, a North African “Saidi” or Tahtib cane dance reminiscent of Morris dancing, as well as traditional Revels favorites.

Five more performances 12/9-12/11. 

Learn more and Buy Tickets at http://revelsdc.org/revels2011/.

Washington Revels present "Andalusian Treasures: Jewish, Arabic, and Spanish music, dance and drama" -- the 2011 "Christmas Revels"

I do not celebrate Christmas, but I am particularly excited about Washington Revels' 2011 "Christmas Revels" production, "Andalusian Treasures."

Why am I excited about a production with "Christmas" in the title, when I don't celebrate the holiday?  Well, because this year's show is definitely NOT a Christmas show! 

This year's December Revels is a new production, and is unique in its deliberate focus on the notable periods of coexistence among Jewish, Muslim, and Christian peoples in Adalusian Spain.

Well then, why call it "The Christmas Revels?" Because: Washington Revels is an affiliate of Revels, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The title "The Christmas Revels" is trademarked and applies to the December show in all Revels cities across the country. None of the Revels cities are allowed to change that.


As a celebration of the winter Solstice, the most obvious traditions tend to be Christmas traditions, and the first "Christmas Revels" included many Christmas carols and Yuletide traditions, mostly from England. Since the first Revels, in 1971, the production has expanded to include many other traditions, and is based in different countries and different ages each year. They are SECULAR theater productions, not Christmas pageants, although I will grant that some years are more inclusive than others. I am Jewish, I have been attending and enjoying "Christmas Revels" performances since 1997.

Washington Revels present "Andalusian Treasures: Jewish, Arabic, and Spanish music, dance and drama." 

Two adventures... three ancient cultures... four hundred years of treasures! 

This December travel back in time more than 1000 years to al-Andalus to experience the music, dance and drama of three great cultures – Sephardic, Arabic and Iberian – in one great country as Washington Revels celebrates the art and music of this unique time. 

Joined by Flory Jagoda (one of the top Sephardic singers anywhere), special guest ensembles Trio Sefardi and Layali El Andalus, we’ll celebrate with poignant Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian music, lively Spanish folk dances and songs, a Hanukkah celebration, a North African “Saidi” or Tahtib cane dance reminiscent of Morris dancing, as well as traditional Revels favorites. 

Eight performances over two weekends, 12/3-4 and 12/9-11 at Lisner Auditorium. 

Learn more and ORDER TICKETS at http://revelsdc.org/revels2011/.

Capital City Symphony ONLINE HOLIDAY AUCTION!

If you haven't checked out the Capital City Symphony Online Holiday Auction recently, it's worth another look. Here's why...

New Items Added!

CCS is adding new items to their auction as quickly as they receive them. Great new items are up for bid. New items are being added almost daily, so check back often!

Please Share This With Your Friends. Refer your friends so they have time to start bidding before the online auction closes on December 11, 2011.

Donations are still being accepted.

Promote your business and support the Capital City Symphony. You can donate online or by email to capitalcitysymphony@biddingforgood.org.

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