Upcoming Performances:

April 20, 2008, 3:00 p.m.

presenting

Harlie Sponaugle, soprano

Michael Bowyer, flute

and other artists

Featuring Catherine McMichaels 's Mariko Suite

Presented by the The Flute Society of Washington, DC

Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC

Cost: Free

Information: 703-256-5900

May 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.

A Heavenly Afternoon

a recital by

Harlie Sponaugle, soprano

Michelle Lundy, harp

Lauren Panfili, flute

Charles Potter, organ

Presented by the United Baptist Church

7100 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA

Cost: Free

Information: 703-256-5900

Recent Performances

April 2, 2008, 12:00 noon

Happenings at the Harman Center

WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano.

Presented by the Harman Center for the Arts

Cost: Free

Location: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC

November 27, 2007, 6:00 p.m.

Presented by the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
Cost: Free

Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC

July 13, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano.

Contemporaries: Chamber Works for the 21st Century

Premiere of WindSong's latest commission from Catherine McMichael -- Dog Chronicles, for Soprano, Clarinet, Flute and Piano and a new work by local composer Scott Upright

Presented by the American Composers Forum
Cost: $10

Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC

May 11, 12, 16 - 19, 8:00 p.m.

May 6, 2007, 6:00 p.m.

a recital by

Harlie Sponaugle, soprano

Russell Gross, clarinet

Scott Alexander, piano and flute

Featuring music by Louis Spohr, Paul Nasto,

and excerpts from Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Orpheus and Euridice,”

a modern re-telling of an ancient story

United Baptist Church

7100 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA

703-256-5900

March 1, 2007, 12 noon

The Pleasures of Chamber Music: voice, instruments and piano

Presented by:  Smithsonian Resident Associates Program

Location:  The Smithsonian Institution

S. Dillon Ripley Center

Education Center

1100 Jefferson Drive, SW

See link above for admission details

Featuring:

The Shepherd on the Rock, by Franz Schubert

November 12, 2006, 3:00 p.m.

With Warren Zwicky, piano

Featuring:

Maury Yeston’s December Songs

Z. Randall Stroope’s Love’s Waning Seasons

A set of Richard Hundley songs

Presented by the Ovation Artists, LLC

Location: Berwyn Presbyterian Church, 6301 Greenbelt Road, Berwyn Heights, MD 20740

Admission: Free will offering

October 26, 2006, Noon.

WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano

Location: Ellipse Arts Center, 4350 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA  22203

Admission Free

Featuring:

Paul Nasto’s Enter the Forest

David Rubenstein's "Elusive Muse"

October 22, 2006, 4:00 p.m.

WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute

Presented by the Rock Creek Chamber Players

Location: Christ Lutheran Church, 8011 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD  20814

Admission Free

Featuring:

Paul Nasto’s Enter the Forest

David Kane’s "Pale Enchanted Moon" (from Acquainted with the Night)

October 21, 2006, 11:00 a.m.

Presented by the FMMC Composer’s Series

Location:  Strathmore Hall Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852-3224

Admission free

Featuring:

Paul Nasto’s Loving the Music: Songs on the Poems of Rumi

David Rubenstein’s  "The War is Done"

October 6, 2006, 12:00 p.m.

WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano

Friday Morning Music Club Opening Concert and President’s Reception

Location: Sumner School Museum, 1700 M Street, NW, Washington, DC

Admission Free

Featuring:

David Kane’s Acquainted with the Night

July 21, 2006, 8:00 p.m.
WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano.

Contemporaries: Chamber Works for the 21st Century

Premieres of New Works for Soprano, Clarinet, Flute and Piano by DC Area Composers Paul Nasto and David Kane, as well as other contemporary works.

Presented by the American Composers Forum
Cost: $10

Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC

Join the members of the WindSong ensemble for an evening of chamber music written by contemporary, and mostly local, composers, including two world premieres commissioned by and for the group. Paul Nasto’s Enter the Forest, with lyrics adapted from Mary Oliver’s poem “Black Branches,” takes us through an enchanted forest on a voyage into our souls that challenges us to stretch ourselves through self-examination. David Kane’s Acquainted with the Night uses haiku for texts and Tibetan singing bowls for atmospheric effect in exploring our world under the moon.

Other composers on the program are André Previn (Los Angeles and the world), Lori Laitman (Potomac, MD), Catherine McMichael (Saginaw, MI), Scott Upright (Falls Church, VA),  Wang An-Ming (Rockville, MD),and David Rubinstein (Falls Church, VA).

June 11, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
WindSong Ensemble -- Harlie Sponaugle, soprano, Nancy Genovese, clarinet, Michael Bowyer, flute, Amy Rothstein, piano.

Benefit for the Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts
 
Location: Patricia M. Sitar Center, 1700 Kalorama Road, NW, Washington, DC