The National Symphony Orchestra performs at Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The NSO’s first scheduled performance in the upcoming season at Kennedy Center will take place on January 14, 2021. Photo by Josh Sisk / Washington Post
“The National Symphony Orchestra will return to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Jan. 14 for what the arts center hopes will be the first regular-capacity performances of a revised 2021 season,” writes Peggy McGlone in Thursday’s (7/23) Washington Post. “The orchestra’s adjusted schedule begins in a more limited way later this year, with three concerts [in December] performed before a small, socially distanced audience in the Concert Hall and live-streamed.… The schedule also features—conditions permitting—opera, dance and theater events on the center’s three large stages…. Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter emphasized that … full-capacity audiences will be allowed only if Washington has reached Phase 4 [of the city’s reopening plan]…. The city is currently in Phase 2…. The arts center announced a slate of digital and small-scale in-person events for the fall, including sunset concerts at the River Pavilion and weekly Facebook live concerts as part of its new ‘Arts Across America’ series starting July 27…. Also in the fall, the NSO and WNO will bring their music into the community…. Highlighting the NSO season is … a series of new works by living composers [and] the rescheduled ‘Beethoven at 250’ festival in May.”
