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The Annual Symphony Benefit Dinner

Monday March 8, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.

Pulcinella Restaurant

6852 Old Dominion Drive, McLean, Virginia

Join us for a culinary and musical feast - Italian style Abbondanza!
Musical entertainment throughout the evening by Maestro Fleary, Symphony players and Special Guests

Cost: $50 per individual
80% of your cost is tax-deductible

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(703) 356-1786

Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 PM - Spring Delights!

Annual Spotlight on Youth and Family

Elisabeth Von Trapp , Folk Singer/Guitarist
Bryan Wethington, Marimba

P. CRESTON Concertino for Marimba, Op. 21
J. WILLIAMS Harry Potter Symphonic Suite

In addition, the Symphony will premiere works by area youth composers, an annual tradition, in cooperation with the Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Call her Elisabeth from the Trapp Family singers whose story inspired The Sound of Music

Also, Maestro Dingwall Fleary
conducting a dazzling concerto for Marimba & Orchestra with
Bryan Wethington

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I think you will find this season full of music of extraordinary beauty, passion and fire – something for every musical taste. And what’s more, I’m just as excited today as I was in 1971 when it all began!

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Music Quotes

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

-Gustav Mahler

Did you know....

American composer John Cage composed a work in 1952 entitled 4' 33", the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed,rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence