Weekend Round Up December 13, 2018
• December 13, 2018

It is a weekend of wreaths, with wreath-making workshops at Tudor Place and the Wreaths Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery.

A State Funeral Illuminates the Life of George H.W. Bush and America         
• December 6, 2018

State funerals are high and mighty, sometimes surreal occasions, solemn and full of formality, and, contrarily, stretched to the limits of theatrical and historical high drama. For such an effect, the […]

Farewell to Bush ’41’: His Character Counted
• December 3, 2018

George H.W. Bush’s presidency — his legacy — was astonishingly thick with events that others might not have handled nearly as well. 

PostClassical Celebrates Walt Whitman
• November 12, 2018

The musical portion of the program reinforced the evening’s topics — all seeming to converge on the eve of the midterm elections — of immigration, voting, war and America’s essential nature.

LAST CHANCE: Thursday’s Breakfast With Revels Heads
• November 6, 2018

Washington Revels Artistic Director Roberta Gasbarre and Executive Director Greg Lewis will speak at the George Town Club on Nov. 8. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.

Cathedral Choral Society: Armistice 1918
• September 24, 2018

Russian composer Alexander Kastalsky wrote a profoundly beautiful and hopeful requiem to commemorate the diverse nations and faiths of the Allied lives lost in World War I. He finished the […]

McCain Continually Crossed the Aisle
• August 30, 2018

The late Sen. John McCain will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda starting at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 31. Speakers will include Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Chuck Schumer and Mike Pence. 

Weekend Round Up May 31, 2018
• May 31, 2018

June’s about to bust out with festivals, including the Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk, Jazz ’n Families Fun Days at the Phillips Collection and DanceAfrica’s closing performances at Dance Place.

Cathedral Choral Society’s Sing a New Song Gala
• March 29, 2018

Join Honorary Chair Jessye Norman as we pay tribute to chorus members then and now, celebrate the work of our High School Choir Festival teacher leaders, and introduce our new […]

Weekend Round Up February 1, 2018
• February 1, 2018

This unusually musical Super Bowl weekend features contemporary music, classical guitarists, the songs of Jerome Kern, the hymns of Hildegard, the Kreisler Collection and the Whiffenpoofs.