ruah arts group » music http://ruah.stblogs.com renewing the face of culture. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Arts & Music in DC http://ruah.stblogs.com/2009/03/17/arts-music-in-dc/ http://ruah.stblogs.com/2009/03/17/arts-music-in-dc/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:18:30 +0000 ruah http://ruah.stblogs.com/?p=184

“She Pondered These Things”

By Marguerite S. Quinn

Opening Concert & Reception

Washington Arts Group Exhibition

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Love in the Crucible:
Washington, D.C. – St. Petersburg, Russia
Concert featuring the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra
Performing works by Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi.
Soloists: David Cho, cello & Eugene Dovgalyuk, violin.

Gallery Talk by Special Guest Dr. Tina Khmelnitskaya
Curator of Russian Porcelain, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Jerry Eisley will join Dr. Khmelnitskaya to discuss how the exhibition reflects the ongoing joint arts outreach in Anacostia and Russia through the Washington Arts Group.

Sunday, March 15, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Truro Church, 10520 Main Street, Fairfax, Va. 22030

 The exhibition features Biblical narrative paintings by Marguerite Slocum Quinn.  One of America’s outstanding impressionist portrait painters and works of art by children from the Vladimir Romanov Palace Children’s Arts Outreach in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The paintings and children’s work celebrate the joy that comes in the presence of difficulty.  Quinn’s subjects for her Biblical narrative Paintings are African Americans from Anacostia.

Exhibition continues through May 17 at Truro Church Gallery.

For exhibition information, call the Washington Arts Group at 202-363-2345

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Philip Fournier will give three organ concerts at Holy Family Church.  There is no admission charge. 

Wednesday, October 29, 7:30pm
Sonata 4 in E minor, and Concerto 2 in A minor (after Vivaldi), J.S. Bach
Wednesday, November 5, 7:30pm
Sonata 5 in C major, and the Fantasy & Fugue in G minor, J.S. Bach
Wednesday, November 19, 7:30pm
Sonata 6 in G major, and the Concerto in D minor (after Vivaldi), J.S. Bach

Philip Fournier is the Director of Music and Organist at St Vincent de Paul Church and the Director of the Oratory Children’s Choir.
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Striving, inebriated by the world’s narcissistic noise,
      and remembering
The beatific sound of byzantine bells.
Echoes of holiness, reflected dimly in the clouded mirrors
of disco ball souls. 

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