Millennium Stage Online Performance Archive: January 2011

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January 31, 2011 - Watch this Performance

KCACTF marks the anniversary with a special scholarship program for short plays, monologues, soliloquies, songs, and spoken word inspired by the life, presidency, and legacy of John F. Kennedy. See the winning pieces performed. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration. IN THE TERRACE THEATER

Featured Artist(s): Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

January 30, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Participants in this partnership between Washington Performing Arts Society and DC Public Schools in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center showcase their musicianship and performance style. Having its roots in the New York jazz tradition, the Armand Hirsch Trio explores modern gospel, world percussion, Brazilian song, progressive rock, classical aesthetics, and the lexicon of American soul music. Emphasizing singable, lingering melodies and frontiers in harmony and rhythm, this group reinvents the organ trio setting.
Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): The Capitol Jazz Project

January 29, 2011 - Watch this Performance

NSO members Joel Fuller (violin), James Nickel (horn), and Lisa Emenheiser (piano) play Debussy’s Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano and Brahms’s Horn Trio.

Featured Artist(s): NSO Prelude

January 28, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The trio led by the talented jazz pianist and Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead alumnus, though young, displays musical maturity, finesse, and imagination. Presented in cooperation with VSA. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Justin Kauflin Trio

January 27, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Students present “The Age of Dreams: Musicals from 1961,” performing excerpts from West Side Story, The Fantasticks, Gypsy, Oliver, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Once Upon a Mattress. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at Catholic University

January 26, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The soul/R&B singer-songwriter, a 2010 VSA International Young Soloists Award recipient, crafts an eclectic mix of retro sounds and grooves as heard on his 2010 release Guilty Pleasure. Presented in cooperation with VSA. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Blessing Offor

January 25, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Dancers from the Silver Spring, Maryland–based school present a “Tribute to the Irish American President.” Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance

January 24, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The US Navy presents the second concer in a special two-part series on the cultural diplomatic mission of Navy music. The Navy Band Jazz Combo, members of the Navy's premier jazz ensemble the Commodores, perform. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): U.S. Navy Commodores

January 23, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The US Navy presents select members of the U.S. Navy Band in the first concert of a special two-part series on the cultural diplomatic mission of Navy music. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): U.S. Navy Band Brass Quintet

January 22, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Only 16 years old, mandolin virtuoso and vocalist Sierra Hull has already emerged as a leading light in a new generation of bluegrass musicians. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Sierra Hull

January 21, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Singer and pianist Francis Farewell Starlite, mastermind of the New York-based group Francis and the Lights, performs his solo piano show.

Featured Artist(s): Francis Farewell Starlite

January 20, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Students under the direction of Franco De Vita, perform Kanji Segawa’s Toward the Light; Pas de Deux from Vasily Vainonen’s Flames of Paris staged by Raymond Lukens; and Raymond Lukens’s Divertissement. Part of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Featured Artist(s): Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre

January 19, 2011 - Watch this Performance

January 18, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The mezzo-soprano is principal soloist of the Serbian National Theatre opera company and has performed around the world. She performs with guitarist Nemanja Bogunovic. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Serbia.

Featured Artist(s): Dragana Jugovic del Monaco

January 17, 2011 - Watch this Performance

The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The concert featuring Grammy Award–winning, platinum-selling vocalist Patti LaBelle also includes the Let Freedom Ring Choir with Music Director, Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. Georgetown University will award the ninth annual John Thompson Legacy of a Dream Award to Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery—a leader in the American Civil Rights movement.

A DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION IN THE CONCERT HALL

Featured Artist(s): Patti LaBelle

January 9, 2011 - Watch this Performance

Rousing and raucous, Scythian plays kicked-up Celtic and world music with hints of Gypsy and Klezmer, all infused with a touch of punk-rock sensibility. They will perform songs from their children's album Cake for Dinner.

Featured Artist(s): Scythian