7 Great Shows at the GMU Center for the Arts

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Violin Concerto No. 2, which up until then had never been published and was considered lost forever.Rachel Barton Pine, who has dedicated her career to highlighting the work of Black composers, joins as featured soloist with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Christopher Zimmerman, to perform the work as the Black History Month centerpiece of a program also featuring Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy and Dvorák’s Symphony No.

7. (2/11, CFA’s Concert Hall)Maybe you missed the Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble‘s performance of Pepperland at the Kennedy Center in the fall of 2019.

Or maybe you saw the witty and enchanting show inspired by The Beatles yet would love to see it again.Either way, you’re in luck, as this magical mystery tour, filled with inventive, exuberant choreography and brightly hued Mod-inspired costumes, is hoping to take you away — to Manassas the second Saturday in February.That’s when the celebrated modern dance troupe, directed by its legendary gay choreographer and namesake, will make its debut at the Hylton Center with live accompaniment from its in-house band, playing new arrangements of songs from Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as well as original compositions by Ethan Iverson. Roll up, as the Fab Four would say. (2/11, Hylton Center’s Merchant Hall)Grammy-nominated violinist Robert McDuffie joins the Czech National Symphony Orchestra to perform Brahms’s electrifying Violin Concerto in D major, part of an uplifting “good-for-your-spirit concert” also embracing the sheer joy and optimism of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.Scheduled as an early Valentine’s Day gift to lovers of Romantic music and masterworks, the concert, led by Music Director Steven Mercurio, also serves as.