In the District, Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts is pleased to include a free performance at the close of every workweek. The time is Friday at 1:30 in the afternoon inside the McNeir Auditorium on the main campus. “The Friday Music Series was established to bring together Georgetown University and local communities of the Washington metro area,” said Anthony DelDonna, director of Georgetown University’s Music Program. “Each year, we offer an exciting series of free concerts featuring local, national and international musicians, performing in diverse traditions and genres ranging from eighteenth-century Italian opera to Brazilian choro to contemporary music.”
Sept. 16 kicks off the season with a presentation of Italian opera from 18th-century Naples. The program features works by Domineco Cimarosa and Pietro Allesandro Guglielmi. Guest performers include soprano Jennifer Ellis Kampani along with two esteemed members of the Peabody Institute faculty, baritone Richard Giarusso and harpsichordist Mark Janello.
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On Sept. 23, Rogerio Souza and Friends deliver Brazilian choro, a musical form that emerged in late 19th-century Rio de Janeiro. This concert, filled with jazz harmonies, dance rhythms and improvisations is a co-presentation of the Center for Latin American Studies and Georgetown’s History Department.
Piano player Michael Beckerman, a regular guest on “Live from Lincoln Center,” offers a lecture-recital focusing on the mutual inspirations between Czech and American cultures on Sept. 30, while the works of Corelli, Boni and Stradella are performed on Oct. 7, by members of the Peabody Institute and Washington College faculties. Risa Browder plays violin, John Moran plays cello and Anthony Harvey plays theorbo.
Afternoon music lovers will also enjoy a major artist on the traditional music circuit, Bryan Bowers, who will be in concert on Oct. 14.
Many featured musicians remain on campus to share their knowledge and love of their craft.
“Our [guest artists] also engage in teaching through master classes provided for the student body,” DelDonna added.
