PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
• April 29, 2024

“What on earth would I want with strings?” That quote from Duke Ellington, which appeared in a 1951 issue of “Down Beat,” gives a sense of the deeply rooted, inimitable […]

Spring Performing Arts  Preview
• February 14, 2024

Duke Ellington 125   Born and raised in Washington, D.C., orchestra leader and composer Edward Kennedy Ellington was nicknamed “Duke” early on for his sense of style. These events celebrate the […]

Arts Bytes , Dec. 2023
• December 6, 2023

PostClassical Ensemble Surveys Architecture  Lasting only 90 minutes, PostClassical Ensemble’s November 16 concert in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater was modest. There were no singers, dancers, actors, narrators, film screening […]

PostClassical Ensemble Surveys Architecture
• November 30, 2023

Lasting just 90 minutes, the most recent concert by PostClassical Ensemble, presented on Nov. 16 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, was relatively modest: no singers, dancers, actors or narrators; […]

Weekend Roundup, Nov. 16 – 19
• November 16, 2023

We’re at the last weekend before Thanksgiving and the bustling holiday season. This week, check out a new exhibit at the National Museum of Asian Art, a community day at […]

Fall Performing Arts Preview
• September 13, 2023

DANCE   Partnering with Dupont Underground, The Washington Ballet will pop down for four pop-up performances (Sept. 28, 29 and 30). TWB’s main fall event, “Such Sweet Thunder: An Evening Inspired […]

PostClassical Ensemble Fills Stage With Falla  
• May 1, 2023

Though he is probably the best-known Spanish composer, in this country Manuel de Falla isn’t a marquee name. Many of his compositions are piano pieces, chamber music works or zarzuelas […]

2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
• February 8, 2023

OPERA   The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]

Q&A with PostClassical Ensemble Founder Angel Gil-Ordoñez  
•

Maestro Angel Gil-Ordoñez, Spanish-born American conductor, founder of the PostClassical Ensemble — and our February cover model — spoke with The Georgetowner about his passion for music, what he loves […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 14, 2022

OPERA   The D.C. United stadium will become a square in Seville when Washington National Opera brings “Carmen” to Audi Field for this fall’s free Opera on the Field (Sept. 25). […]