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Beethoven & American Masters: George Walker & Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies


  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall 2700 F Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20566 United States (map)

Performances: May 12 & 13 @8pm

The NSO presents the compact, complex final sinfonia by George Walker, a D.C. native and the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Gianandrea Noseda bookends the program with two glorious Beethoven symphonies: the buoyant, humorous Eighth and the relentlessly rhythmic Seventh.

Later Event: May 12
Uasuf Gueye Trio