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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.

June 5: Ukrainian organist Viktor Billa and soprano Yuliia Billa perform organ works by J. S. Bach, César Franck, and Louis Vierne as well as pieces for voice and organ by Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, and Klement Slavický.

June 12: The annual Pride Recital features Gustav Holst’s The Planets, transcribed for organ and performed by organist Sol M. Rizzato, assisted by Carolyn Hoff.

June 19: Howard University organ professor Mickey Thomas Terry performs a special one-hour Juneteenth Concert, cosponsored by The African Heritage and
Cultural Institute. The program includes works of Charles Tournemire, Noel Da Costa, Thomas H. Kerr, J.S. Bach, and Franz Liszt.

June 26: The spring season of Music at Midday concludes with a performance by Austrian organist Stefan Donner. The program includes music by J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Marcel Dupré.

Summer organ series at Basilica

Recitals are offered each Sunday in July and August at 6 pm at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave. NE.

July 5: David Ball and Emma Whitten of Orange, CA
July 12: Iris Lan of Washington, DC
July 19: Woosug Kang of Nashville
July 26: Gabriele Studer of Alba, Italy
Aug. 2: Lynn Trapp of Baltimore
Aug. 9: John Mitchell of Reston, VA
Aug. 16: Andy Brown of Philadelphia
Aug, 23: Peter Latona of Washington, DC
Aug. 30: Adam Chlebek of Washington, DC

 
Future organ events
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, Sept. 20, 4 pm: Nathan Laube plays a recital at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 915 N. Oakland St. 

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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