6th Street and Maine Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C.
(Across from Arena Stage, where Maine Avenue turns into M Street SW.
Click HERE to see a map.)
Admission free, donations accepted.
(Across from Arena Stage, where Maine Avenue turns into M Street SW.
Click HERE to see a map.)
Admission free, donations accepted.
A related event is the Thursday, December 12, convocation of our Waterfront Village book club’s December meeting, at which we will consider The Nightingale's Sonata, a biography of Russian violinist Lea Luboshutz (1885-1965) as told by the author, who is her grandson Thomas Wolf. Tom will be on hand for a lecture and book-signing followed by light refreshments.
The event will take place at the Thurgood Marshall Library in the same concert venue of Saint Augustin'e Episcopal Church.
The “nightingale” in question is “Lubo’s” violin, “rossignol;” the sonata is Cesar Franck’s; and the story is her own. The wondrous lubo started life in the ghetto of Odessa, Ukraine, emerged from the conservatory in Moscow with a gold medal, and escaped Russia amid the tumult of WWI. Concertizing first in Berlin and Paris, then New York, she ended up ultimately in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute. Along the way, she married one of her children into a prominent Philadelphia family, and produced a large number of successful grandchildren, one of whom will be our guest.
The Southwest Chamber Players is a loose aggregation of over 100 dedicated amateur musicians who have performed at Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Southwest Washington for the past twenty years. Formed in March 1997, we have presented concerts of fine chamber music nearly each month since. Including every one of the orchestra’s instruments as well as singers of every voice range, our repertoire has extended from Bach and Telemann through Prokofiev and Barber, with heavy emphasis on the works of the great composers of the classical and romantic eras. Tonight marks our 186th appearance on the performing stage from its three-year exile to celebrate this magnificent new church!
David Ehrlich, the director, learned the piano from the age of six from his father, Richard. Though his life’s work was in the retail business, he never lost touch with performing music as both pianist and singer. Today he burnishes his skills annually at the University of North Carolina’s chamber music workshop in Chapel Hill; he also sojourned in Spartanburg, South Carolina; Lexington, Virginia; and Lyndonville, Vermont. Our website southwestchamberplayers.org lists a fair sampling of past concert programs as well as biographies of many of the performers.
No required dollars change hands. None of the performers is paid; admission to concerts is free, though we do gratefully accept donations to offset the minor expenses of publicity and post-concert receptions. SWCP attracts much of its audience from the Southwest community, and for years maintained a mailing list of several hundred until our church venue was razed in 2014.
For more information,or to add your address to our postal mailing list, email David Ehrlich at david@southwestchamberplayers.org or call him at (202) 484-6354.
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