“This fall, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Montgomery County residents will still be treated to a season’s worth of classical music from the National Philharmonic,” writes Emma Sarappo in last Monday’s (10/20) Washington City Paper (Washington, D.C.). “Viewers will be watching it from home…. But the musicians will gather in person to record the music … with about half the season recorded in Strathmore’s Music Center and the other half in its smaller venue, the AMP. The concerts will be broadcast in the form of a 60-minute TV presentation…. Its first show … premieres at 2 p.m. on Oct. 25.… The music this season includes a number of works composed by women, people of color, and local artists, CEO and president Jim Kelly says. Concertmaster Laura Colgate, who co-founded the D.C.-based Boulanger Initiative, a group that promotes women composers, curated the chamber concerts at AMP…. The first concert in that series, scheduled for Nov. 8 … features composers like Judith Lang Zaimont in addition to Johann Sebastian Bach…. Colgate stresses the importance of music in bleak times as a major reason for the National Philharmonic to play. ‘Right now, people are clinging to art to bring them through this,’ she says.”
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