American Film Institute June 11 & 12, 2005 AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center Silver Spring, MD Virgil Thompson: The Plow that Broke the Plains Virgil Thompson: The River Presented in association with the American Film Institute [button link=”/category/events/american-film-institute”] See Complete Program [/button]

The Song of the Earth Wednesday, March 16, 2005 The Embassy of Austria Washington, DC Delores Ziegler, mezzo-soprano Min Ziao-Fen, pipa Wang Guowei, erhu Shi Hong Aldin, actress PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez Mahler: Abschied from Song of the Earth (Arranged by Arnold Schoenberg) Chinese traditional music and Chinese poetry [button link=”/category/events/song-of-the-earth-2005″] See Complete […]

Mexican Revolutionaries November 2004 – May 2005 The Cultural Institute of Mexico The Kreeger Museum The Mansion at Strathmore Washington, DC – Bethesda, MD Works by Manuel Ponce, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas. These composers were to Mexican music what Pancho Villa was to Mexican politics: revolutionaries. Their compositions built on Mexican popular music and […]