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- Orchestra Baobab at Lisner
- Salif Keita: From Outcast to Icon
- Kids and Modern Art: Think Outside the Frame
- McFerrin Leads "World of Voices" at Kennedy Center
- Lord of the Rings at Wolf Trap
- Great Noise Ensemble at the National Gallery
- Antares play Bartók, Messiaen at Strathmore
- Capitol Woodwind Quintet: 20th Century Gems
- Wynton Marsalis at the Kennedy Center
- Del Tredici's "Final Alice" Returns
- Poulenc Trio at the National Gallery of Art
- Varèse, Scelsi at the Kennedy Center
- Berta Rojas plays Barrios
- Verge and Aleph at the Embassy of France
- Zakir Hussain at Lisner Auditorium
- The Fessenden Ensemble at St. Paul's
- Sonny Rollins at the Kennedy Center
- Intoxication
- Holloway/Linden/Mortensen Trio at the Library of Congress
- The Altenberg Trio at Dumbarton Oaks
- 21st Century Consort: Fields of Color
- East Village Opera Company at Lisner
- Buddy Guy at the Birchmere
- Rock Opera. Seriously.
- The Amelia Trio: East Meets West
- Daniel Bernard Roumain, postmodernist
- Terry Riley's "The Cusp of Magic"
- Chavez, Revueltas to Square Off in DC
- Maceo Parker at the State Theatre
- Krakauer and the Orion Quartet at the Library of Congress
- James Galway at the Kennedy Center
- Mary Wilson at Blues Alley
- At Strathmore, a Lively "Alcantara"
- The Amazing Petr Spatina
- Laptop Orchestra at the Kennedy Center
- Verge Ensemble at the Corcoran Gallery
- Corey Harris at Blues Alley
- Jennifer Larmore and Ensemble Matheus
- The Hugo Wolf Quartet at the National Gallery
- Matmos, Electronica's Clamour Couple
- Erlkönig, with Anne Sofie von Otter & Abbado
- Fine Mozinsky from the NSO Players
- Ween at DAR Constitution Hall
- Darkness and Light from the Left Bank Quartet
- Dandelion
- At the Portrait Gallery, a Spanish "Legacy"
- Cambodian Modern: The Architectural Legacy of Vann Molyvann
- Feet Accompli in St. Michaels
- Haskell Small Plays Mompou
- Todd Rundgren at the Birchmere
- Anabel Montesinos at Westmoreland
- Shafer's Return
- In the Sanctuary: Roger Reynolds
- Paul Badura-Skoda at the National Gallery
- Eartha Kitt at the Warner
- Zappa Redux, at the Warner
- Hee-Young Lim at the Terrace
- Angkor in the Monsoon: When it Rains, You Score
- Conversations: Eartha Kitt
- Annie Lennox at Lisner
- Verdehr Trio at the Phillips
- St. George's Choir in Alexandria
- Queen Latifah, Reigning at Strathmore
- Ravi and Anoushka Shankar at the Kennedy Center
- The Post-Classical Ensemble, Storming the Ramparts
- Andrei Licaret at the Romanian Embassy
- Rebel Baroque at Clarice Smith
- Folger Consort: In the Grove
- From Berlin, French Refinement
- John McLaughlin: Fusion Powerhouse
- At the Austrian Embassy, Cage Triumphs
- In Conversation: Jefferson Friedman
- The New Face of Afrobeat
- From the Levine, Unpolished Gems
- The National Philharmonic at Strathmore: Blocks Unbusted
- The Puppini Sisters: Glamour at the Birchmere
- From Sierra Leone, Songs of Survival
- Enchanted Animals, Padlocked Lips
- Monheit's Dilemma
- The iPod in the Concert Hall
- Is the Classical Guitar Ready for its Closeup?
- At the Sackler: Portugal's Haunted Empire
- "Four Angels" Takes Flight at NSO
- Mark Adamo, Wild at Harp
- Brentano String Quartet at the Kreeger Museum
- Angelique Kidjo at Lisner
- Pamela Z at the Tivoli
- Choral Arts Society at the Kennedy Center
- Slanty Eyed Mama at the Freer
- And yet more Josefowicz ....
- Leila Josefowicz: The Dharma of The Violin
- Brian Irvine at the Library of Congress
- Norah Jones at DAR Constitution Hall
- Contemporary Music Forum at the Corcoran Gallery
- Euclid and Degas Quartets at the Library of Congress
- Belohlavek keeps NSO in Czech
- Metheny and Mehldau at the Warner Theater
- 21st Century Consort: Steinberg's Wit as Music
- Britten, Kazik from the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic
- Alizadeh at Lisner: Dissolving Borders
- This weekend in Baltimore: "Music of Japan Today 2007"
- Mariza: A Wild Night of Fado at the KenCen
- The Post-Classical Ensemble: Cutting to the Roots
- Inti-Illimani at Lisner
- Taj Mahal and Los Lobos at the State Theater
- Jupiter rocks; Carmen sags
- Marin, Savion and the BSO at Strathmore
- Joyce DiDonato at the Terrace
- Alsop's First BSO Season Unveiled
- Mason Bates' "Liquid Interface" at the Kennedy Center
- "Life" -- A Glass Act at Strathmore
- Bates Premiere -- Outshining Mendelssohn?
- Venice Baroque Orchestra: Stunning Vivaldi
- Mason Bates, Bringing Electronica to the Concert Hall
- Soweto Gospel Choir at GMU
- Way Overdue: Philip Glass Finally in Baltimore
- Paco de Lucía: Impassioned Flamenco at Lisner
- Emersons & Shostakovich at the Terrace
- Bashmet's Takemitsu; KTK & the Flying Panties Problem
- Guitarist Adam Holzman plays Cruz, Assad
- Italian Opera, Eastern European style
- Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists
- Musica Pacifica at Strathmore
- Musical fauna at the Kennedy Center
- Shakespeare's iPod
- Jubilant Sykes & Christopher Parkening: Greensleeves
- Capitol Woodwind Quintet: 30 and Still Wailing
- Swan Song for the Vermeer Quartet
- Ivan Fischer at KenCen; LPO with Masur
- Christine Brewer, Unleashed at the Terrace
- The Brandenburgs Endure
- Guitarist Ana Vidovic: polished and elegant
- Bill Frisell Rocks Lisner
- Anne-Sophie Mutter, Reluctant Goddess
- Marlboros at the Freer; Bill Frisell tonight!
- A Bare-bones "Orlando" from the Washington Concert Opera
- Missa Solemnis at the Kennedy Center
- Elliott Schwartz: Card-Carrying Post-Modernist
- Top-Heavy Rossini from the New Dominion Chorale
- Maya Beiser at the Kennedy Center
- Trio Levinson at the Embassy of Hungary
- Opera week at our house
- Pink Martini shakes it up; Sophie gets her debut
- Sophie's Choice, Zorn's MacArthur
- Improvisers invade Baltimore -- Pink Martinis all around!
- Beach's birthday; Kirchner on composing
- New music in Amsterdam, exploding pianos, and The Maltese Tenor
- Andrea Marcon at the Library of Congress; and the perils of lists
- This weekend: Corey Harris, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, and a roomful of weimaraners
- What I want for Christmas
- The coming of the "virtual concert"?
- Tower Records -- an idea whose time has gone
- A summer night's Figaro
- ClassicalLounge.com goes online
- Heinrich Biber: Man of Mysteries
- Music from Jupiter; Mozart's subscriber base; and a little scratchy spirituality
- Munchkins, Mendelssohn and Flying Monkeys
- The Dark Side of the Rainbow
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf passes away at 90
- Tony Snow plays the blues
- Books for the heat
- Anderszewski's mission, Richter's breast issues, and the brainwashed babies problem
- Ricardo Cobo and Ken Meyer at the AGF
- Superduo "Soloduo"; and Beethoven's Funniest Home Symphonies?
- Report from the Doldrums
- Points in space
- Armonia Nova at St. Mark's
- Fermata
- Supreme Court Rules for Domashenko!
- Cooking at the Ospedali
- Post-Classical Ensemble's next season; Dolphy solos
- Alexandria Guitar Festival, & a little Laurie Anderson
- It's going to be a long day
- Roll Over, Titian
- Stravinsky's friends
- Jerry Springer saves mankind, and other operas
- Gyorgi Ligeti, 1923-2006
- Mahler's Eighth, and Ammirati at the Blazin' Bee
- Nurit Bar-Josef & Co. at the KenCen
- In which Sting gets a lute
- Crunchy vegetables, Mahler 8th and other tastes
- "L'Italiana" ends ... but early music begins
- Music over martinis, and a bird or two
- Woody bleatings, raucous cries
- Stomping around the house
- Nassif and Domashenko in a fine "Clemenza"
- Not dead yet
- Lang Lang's Effusions and Other News
- Not suspicious. Not cheesy.
- Contemporary Music Forum
- Sing Along With Kim Jong Il
- A Brief Encounter With Fast-moving Entities
- Close Enough to the Sun
- Vitaly Samoshko, Untied
- Marlboros Are Good For You
- The Wicked are Put to Silence; Women Dance With Glee
- German Lieder Will Set You Free
- The Ahn Trio: Girls Gone Mild
- Ann Schein Is My New God. Goddess. Whatever.
- On Clarinet: Eric Hoeprich's Authentic Mozart
- Pepe Romero: Spanish Guitar with Passion & Brains
- Ute Lemper's Dark and Beautiful Journeys
- Lang Lang: Shock-and Awe Pianism at Strathmore
- Paint Takes on Mozart, and Both Lose
- Yo-Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center
- Yundi Li: the Piano Showdown Begins
- Rachel Barton Pine Unleashed at the National Gallery
- Bach Collegium Japan at the Library of Congress
- Ned Rothenberg: Forays into the Sonic Unknown
- Eclipse Chamber Orchestra at Schlesinger
- Post-Classical Ensemble Spotlights Falla Masterpiece
- Steven Blier: Exploring the Belle Epoque
- Meredith Monk's "Impermanence": the Fragility of Life
- Kuijken at the Library of Congress: Not So Lovable
- Minetti String Quartet, Celebrating Mozart
- Steven Salters at the Kennedy Center
- Guarneri String Quartet at the Kennedy Center
- Toru Takemitsu at the Library of Congress
- Beaux Arts Trio at the National Gallery of Art

