District5

Chamber Music Series

Non-MCC District Resident Cost: $10/$7 for seniors and students

District5 is a daring, Washington D.C.-based wind quintet that specializes in new music and new transcriptions. They are recipients of a 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant with composer Evis Sammoutis and have recently performed at "The REACH" at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, U.S. Department of State, Library of Congress, Barns at Wolf Trap, DC Kosciuszko Foundation and the Anderson House. In 2014, they gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ROTARY Woodwind Quintet

District5: “Coming Home”
An exploration of the many paths one takes to “come home.” Inspired by the incredible true stories of composers in their search for truth, family, identity, country and life itself, District5 brings together the music and passion that binds us all together in our search for what it truly means to “come home.”
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Pentalogue—Elizabeth Brown
Il Saltarello Romano, Vier Lieder für das Pianoforte, op. 6/4—Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, trans. David Plylar
Mi Teresita Petite Valse—Teresa Carreño, trans. David Plylar
Mazurka in a minor—Kate Loder, trans, David Plylar
Valse amoureuse from Les Rêves de Colombine, op. 65/3—Amy Beach, trans, David Plylar
Three-fours Valse-Suite, op. 71—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, trans. David Plylar
Lyric Pieces, op. 43—Edvard Grieg, trans. David Player
III. In My Homeland