The National Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert celebrating the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium on October 25, led by guest conductor Michelle Merrill and featuring music composed by women. Pianist Natalia Kazaryan, on the Howard University faculty, will serve as soloist in the third movement of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, NSO Principal Second Violin Marissa Regni will perform part of a concerto by French composer Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729), and Howard University a cappella group Afro-Blue will perform a set. Other featured composers will include Florence Price, Gabriela Lena Frank, Caroline Shaw, Lili Boulanger, Jennifer Higdon, and Joan Tower. The Howard University appearance is part of the NSO’s free Community Concert series, which began in 2017 with Music Director Gianandrea Noseda’s commitment to bring live orchestral music to audiences around Washington outside of the Kennedy Center. Since that time, the NSO has performed at Union Station, Duke Ellington School for the Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Posted October 23, 2019
In photo: Composer Florence Price (1887-1953)
