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Music at Midday downtown

National City Christian Church presents Music at Midday programs most Fridays at 12:15 pm. The church is at 5 Thomas Circle NW.
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March 6: Carol Feather Martin presents “Fresh Takes on Old Forms,” featuring works of contemporary composers Margaret Vardell Sandresky, Henry Martin, Angela Kraft Cross, and Iain Farrington.

March 13: LeeLee Hunter and John Nothaft present works for classical guitar and organ by Ben Ludlow, Charles Callahan, and Chris Deblasio. John will also perform the Prelude and Fugue in A minor of Johann Sebastian Bach.

March 20: Baltimore organist Jordan Prescott performs a program titled “Bach Birthday Bash,” featuring the great composer’s majestic Prelude and Fugue in E-flat
Major and five of his well-known chorale preludes.

March 27: The United States Army Chorus performs choral music of different centuries and different countries as well as  works of American composers.

April 3: No recital (Good Friday)

April 10: Duo Arpeggione – cellist Claudio Jaffe and pianist Catherine Lam – performs music by J. S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saëns, Arthur Foote, and David Popper.

April 17: Craig S. Williams, organist and choirmaster at the Cadet Chapel in West
Point, NY, performs organ works of Grimoaldo Macchia, Alejandro D. Consolacion II, Cecilia McDowall, and Felix Mendelssohn.

April 24: Baltimore organist Michael Stefanek presents by Paul Fey, Florence Price, J. S. Bach, Scott Joplin, Chelsea Chen, and Louis Vierne.
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Organ events

Sunday, March 8, 3 pm: Dominic Fiacco plays a recital at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Tenley Circle NW. He is a junior at the Eastman School of Music, studying under Nathan Laube. He was named to the 20 under 30 class of 2023 by The Diapason. Music of Buxtehude, Roger-Ducasse, Guilmant, Tournemire and Durufle.
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Sunday, March 8, 4 pm: Brass of Peace and Lisa Tyler play a recital at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St. NE.

Sunday, March 8, 4 pm: Organist Richard Spotts with soprano Sara MacKimmie and violinist Kat Whitesides at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE. Spotts (Doylestown, PA) is the author of Charles Tournamire's L'Orgue Mystique: La Haute Mission. L'Orgue Mystique consists of 51 suites, one for nearly every Sunday of the liturgical year, rooted in Gregorian chant. MacKimmie will intone the chants before Tournemire settings for the Lenten season. Whitesides will join for a few of Tournemire's solo works, including "Pater Noster" and "La Salutation Angelique."

March 13, 14 and 15: The Thirteen choir and orchestra perform Bach The Early Masses II. Friday, March 13 at 7:30 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria; Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 pm at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown; Sunday, March 15 at 5 pm at Westmoreland UCC in Bethesda. Tickets at thethirteenchoir.org.

Sunday, March 22, 3 pm: : Holy Trinity Catholic Church presents Theodore Dubois' Seven Last Words of Christ. 1315 36th St. NW. Free.

Sunday, April 5, 2 pm: Easter Day organ recital at Washington National Cathedral.

Saturday, April 11, 7 pm: Todd Wilson plays a recital at Bush Hill Presbyterian Church, 4916 Franconia Rd., Alexandria.

Sunday, April 12, 4 pm: Ronald Stolk, organist at St. Patrick's Church, plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, April 12, 4 pm: Angela Kraft Cross plays a recital at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St. NE.

Tuesday, April 14, 12:10 pm: Washington Bach Consort presents the cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanger mich. Organist Jeff Kempskie plays Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele and the Fantasia super Komm, Heiliger Geist. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.

Tuesday, April 21: Loic Georgeault Florence Rousseau plays Fantasia in G and Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot by J.S. Bach and Deuxieme Choral and Piece heroique by Cesar Franck. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.

Sunday, May 3, 4 pm: Music director Maria Balducci plays the annual Marian concert at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Tuesday, May 5, 12:10 pm: Kitty Yang performs Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne,) Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, Pastorale, Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor and Toccata in F Major. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.

Sunday, May 10, 4 pm: Michael Lodico plays a recital at the Franciscan Monastery, 1400 Quincy St. NE.

Sunday, June 14, 3 pm: Alcee Chris plays a recital at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Tenley Circle NW.

Sunday, June 14, 4 pm: Todd Fickley, organist at National Presbyterian Church, plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, July 12, 4 pm: Kevin Birch plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, Aug. 9, 4 pm: Paul Hardy plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, Sept. 13, 4 pm: Adam Chlebek plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, Oct, 11, 4 pm: Samuel Rowe plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, Nov. 8, 4 pm: Daniel Sanez plays a recital at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE.

Sunday, Dec. 13, 4 pm: Annual Lessons and Carols concert at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. NE
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