Journey from sorrow to triumph in mere moments with Brahms’ vivid Tragic Overture as CCS opens its penultimate concert of the season. The concert’s emotional adventure continues as Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade sweeps us away with drama and lush romance, showcasing the influences of 19th-century composers whose work he’d studied.

And finally, we join Mendelssohn on his journey to the breathtaking landscapes of Scotland, where his experiences in Edinburgh and encounters with the sounds of Scottish folk dance inspired his Symphony No. 3 “Scottish.”

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An emotionally charged concert portraying the journey of veterans post-conflict, unveiling their struggles and resilience as they navigate the challenges of reintegration into civilian life.

Experience the powerful musical narrative of veterans’ post-conflict journey, capturing their challenges, resilience, and pursuit of normalcy upon returning home. An emotional tribute to their struggles and triumphs in resuming everyday life.

Conducted by our assistant conductor, Ingrid Lestrud.

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Celebrate the joy and magic of the season with Capital City Symphony and our special guest, renowned soprano Amber Monroe. Together, CCS and Monroe, with a voice rich and clear, will delight you with heartwarming holiday classics. Grab your family, friends, and neighbors and join us for a concert filled with holiday music and sing-along fun! We can’t wait to ring in the season with you!

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Celebrate the joy and magic of the season with Capital City Symphony and our special guest, renowned soprano Amber Monroe. Together, CCS and Monroe, with a voice rich and clear, will delight you with heartwarming holiday classics. Grab your family, friends, and neighbors and join us for a concert filled with holiday music and sing-along fun! We can’t wait to ring in the season with you!

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Bring the whole family! It’s time for CCS’s annual interactive family concert. The performance begins with local composer Charlie Barnett’s energetic and participatory Give Me the Orchestra, which introduces the audience to each section of the orchestra. We’ll continue with our screening and live musical performance of One Week, sure to bring plenty of laughs for grown-ups and kids alike. This event is created with our youngest audience members in mind, and will delight audiences of all ages. Join us as we celebrate CCS with a rollicking performance One Week, with an original orchestral score by acclaimed silent film composer Andrew Earle Simpson.

Travel with CCS to the golden era of silent films with a live performance of Andrew Earle Simpson’s original score accompanying a screening of famed comedian Buster Keaton’s hilarious – but silent – romp One Week. Ideal for audiences of all ages, One Week chronicles the comedic misadventures of a newly-wed couple’s attempt to build a DIY house they were given as a wedding gift – all in 22 minutes.

Plan to arrive early! 30 minutes before the concert starts, an instrument petting zoo will be held throughout the concert hall and lobby, giving your whole family a hands-on opportunity to get to know our artists and their instruments!

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Bring the whole family! It’s time for CCS’s annual interactive family concert. The performance begins with local composer Charlie Barnett’s energetic and participatory Give Me the Orchestra, which introduces the audience to each section of the orchestra. We’ll continue with our screening and live musical performance of One Week, sure to bring plenty of laughs for grown-ups and kids alike. This event is created with our youngest audience members in mind, and will delight audiences of all ages. Join us as we celebrate CCS with a rollicking performance One Week, with an original orchestral score by acclaimed silent film composer Andrew Earle Simpson.

Travel with CCS to the golden era of silent films with a live performance of Andrew Earle Simpson’s original score accompanying a screening of famed comedian Buster Keaton’s hilarious – but silent – romp One Week. Ideal for audiences of all ages, One Week chronicles the comedic misadventures of a newly-wed couple’s attempt to build a DIY house they were given as a wedding gift – all in 22 minutes.

Plan to arrive early! 30 minutes before the concert starts, an instrument petting zoo will be held throughout the concert hall and lobby, giving your whole family a hands-on opportunity to get to know our artists and their instruments!

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Travel with CCS to the golden era of silent films with a live performance of Andrew Earle Simpson’s original score accompanying a screening of famed comedian Buster Keaton’s hilarious – but silent – romp One Week. Ideal for audiences of all ages, One Week chronicles the comedic misadventures of a newly-wed couple’s attempt to build a DIY house they were given as a wedding gift – all in 22 minutes.

Join us as we celebrate CCS with a rollicking performance, One Week, with an original orchestral score by acclaimed silent film composer Andrew Earle Simpson. This evening will include a conversation with composer Andrew Earle Simpson. This event is created with our grown-up audience members in mind. Plan to arrive 30 minutes before the concert to enjoy a cocktail and to get to know our artists and their instruments at our instrument petting zoo!

5:00 PM: Cocktails and Instrument Petting Zoo in the Lobby
5:30 PM: Concert in the Lang Theatre

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Our season begins with the powerful and emotional Concert Overture No. 1 in E minor by groundbreaking 19th-century composer, Louise Farrenc, launching our adventures into places known and unknown. Next, CCS teams up with “lyrical soprano of ravishing quality,” Laura Choi Stuart, to carry us into the enchanting world of Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne rich with folk-inspired melodies and lush harmonies that transport us to the idyllic landscapes of rural France. Our journey continues with a musical expedition to Hovhannes’ Mysterious Mountain inspired by the American Southwest. This leg of our travels concludes in Norway, where Grieg’s iconic Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 brings legendary Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt to life through a collection of four vibrant movements.

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Imagination abounds as we wrap up our season. The performance begins with grammy-nominated Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian’s lush Broken Ink, which evokes the melodies and tones of Chinese poetry. We close the season with Jocelyn Hagen’s ingenious multimedia choral-orchestral work, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. This captivating piece uses the latest in video syncing technology to bring da Vinci’s work to life through his words and drawings in an unforgettable concert experience. CCS is thrilled to welcome our inspiring friends from Congressional Chorus as our partners in this performance.

Did you know?!

• Since Chinese is a tonal language, with pitch impacting meaning, Chinese poetry is melodic. In the Song dynasty - the period from which Tian’s poetic inspiration comes - there was no system of notation, leaving current readers no insight into how to perform poetry of that era. 

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Based in his reimagining of Native American folklore, Longfellow’s Songs of Hiawatha has inspired music across time and place, each composer and piece offering a unique perspective on the theme. Our journey begins with Delius’s passionate Hiawatha, which transports us through longing, fulfillment, loss, and hope. Afro-British composer Coleridge Taylor’s “luscious, rich, and sensual” Hiawatha Overture follows, paving the way for Dvorak’s beloved New World Symphony which tantalizes us with influences from spirituals and indigenous music, as well as Longfellow’s poem.

Did you know?!

• Neil Armstrong took a recording of Dvorak’s New World Symphony on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon!

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Delight in the original compositions of some of Capital City Symphony’s talented musicians during our third annual CCS Creates Chamber Music Concert. The program celebrates unique perspectives and rich talent from within our own Capital City Symphony Composer’s League. You won’t want to miss this unforgettable performance created by your neighbors for you - our neighbors!

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We are thrilled to be participating in the Atlas Performing Arts Center Intersections Festival!

The Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival is a performing arts festival that presents work that impacts our society, culture, and world by informing, inspiring, educating, and entertaining. INTERSECTIONS is about presenting excellent art that inspires a connected community, engages artists and audiences alike, and creates a vibrant neighborhood, city, and world.

Capital City Symphony and Assistant Conductor Ingrid Lestrud explore musical confluence where art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art.  From Beethoven’s sounds of a summer storm, to Hovhannes imitating nature, and the sounds of Paris from Gershwin, join us for an exploration of sound.

Featuring Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artist, Amber Monroe singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Come celebrate the holiday season with Capital City Symphony and Potomac Fever, a close-knit harmony a cappella group made up of members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC. Grab your family, friends, and neighbors for a fun-filled concert and sing along featuring your favorite holiday classics. We can’t wait to revel in the spirit of the holiday season with you! 

Did you know?!

• Potomac Fever was formed over thirty years ago! The 14-voice a cappella pop ensemble has performed all over the country and released several albums.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Come celebrate the holiday season with Capital City Symphony and Potomac Fever, a close-knit harmony a cappella group made up of members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC. Grab your family, friends, and neighbors for a fun-filled concert and sing along featuring your favorite holiday classics. We can’t wait to revel in the spirit of the holiday season with you! 

Did you know?!

• Potomac Fever was formed over thirty years ago! The 14-voice a cappella pop ensemble has performed all over the country and released several albums.

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Jump into the fun during our annual interactive family concert! Kids and grown-ups alike will be in on the action during every piece of this exciting and vibrant concert, which is designed with our youngest audience members in mind. 

We’ll begin with Mexican composer Arturo Marquez’s rhythmic and playful Conga del Fuego Nuevo. Activist and Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon’s The Block, inspired by the art of Romare Bearden and vibrant scenes of Harlem, follows. Valerie Coleman’s Umoja will harness the voices of our whole community through call and response and memorable melodies that invite us to create beautiful music together. And finally, we’ll wrap-up this hour-long performance with Bruce Adolphe’s highly interactive Three Pieces for Kids and Chamber Orchestra.

Plan to arrive early! Thirty minutes before the concert starts, an instrument petting zoo will be held throughout the concert hall and lobby giving your whole family a hands-on opportunity to get to know our artists and their instruments! 

Did you know?!

• The conga is a Cuban carnival dance - and a drum!- brought by Black enslaved people from the West Indies.

• Umoja is a Swahili word that means “unity.” It is also the first principle of Kwanzaa!

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Jump into the fun during our annual interactive family concert! Kids and grown-ups alike will be in on the action during every piece of this exciting and vibrant concert, which is designed with our youngest audience members in mind. 

We’ll begin with Mexican composer Arturo Marquez’s rhythmic and playful Conga del Fuego Nuevo. Activist and Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon’s The Block, inspired by the art of Romare Bearden and vibrant scenes of Harlem, follows. Valerie Coleman’s Umoja will harness the voices of our whole community through call and response and memorable melodies that invite us to create beautiful music together. And finally, we’ll wrap-up this hour-long performance with Bruce Adolphe’s highly interactive Three Pieces for Kids and Chamber Orchestra.

Plan to arrive early! Thirty minutes before the concert starts, an instrument petting zoo will be held throughout the concert hall and lobby giving your whole family a hands-on opportunity to get to know our artists and their instruments! 

Did you know?!

• The conga is a Cuban carnival dance - and a drum!- brought by Black enslaved people from the West Indies.

• Umoja is a Swahili word that means “unity.” It is also the first principle of Kwanzaa!

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Our season begins with the exhilarating Fanfare on Amazing Grace, a short “explosion of joyous sound” by living African-American composer Adolphus Hailstork. Next, internationally renowned “spitfire” Romanian violinist, Irina Muresanu, and “ebullient” UMD Professor of Cello, Eric Kutz, join forces with CCS to bring Brahms’ sweeping Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102, in A minor to life. Finally, we bring you Hindemith’s vivid and energetic imagining of artist Mathias Grunewald’s paintings in the Mathis der Maler Symphony, a work that emerges from Hindemith’s poignant opera exploring the artist’s role and voice within society.

Did you know?!

• An arrangement of Hailstork’s Fanfare on Amazing Grace was performed as a part of the Presidential Inaugural Prelude in 2021.

• Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony was banned by the German government a month after its 1934 premiere because the composer had allegedly been critical of Hitler. Indeed, Hindemith was notably anti-Nazi.

• Brahms’ Double Concerto was written, in part, to pursue reconciliation with his dear, estranged friend, violinist Joseph Joachim.

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