David Rohde is a performer, teacher and writer who revels in the entire gamut of Baroque to jazz and pop music. His performing and conducting credits in the Washington area range from classical piano recitals to Stephen Sondheim musicals, and his vocal students appear primarily on theatrical stages around the US. David’s Q&A interviews with both famous and emerging opera singers, conductors and instrumentalists have been popular in the Washington area arts media, and themed articles on subjects ranging from the huge selection of Prokofiev’s music in Washington area concert programs to the appeal of concert opera have brought a new dimension to the classical scene there.
A round-robin of Philadelphia Orchestra soloists in the original jazz-band orchestration of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue provides an ideal partnership for pianist Aaron Diehl's elaborations on this iconic work.
Vibrant Mozart G minor symphony anchors the National Symphony’s digital return to the stage as distancing, sound engineering requirements generally score well
Kevin Puts’ expanded work on Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Steiglitz provides another triumph for Renée Fleming and the NSO, while two Strauss works demonstrate both its artistic re-emergence and work left to do.
A major work going well beyond tango by Astor Piazzolla and a fresh introduction to African-American composer Florence Price highlight a concert that tries a bit too hard to please
Krzysztof Urbański elects an ideal pace and shape for Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony in a guest conducting appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra, on an evening also featuring Lise de la Salle playing Chopin.
A good audience turnout for the opening of Noseda's third NSO season justifies an all-20th-century program centering on Carl Orff's popular and direct setting of medieval poems about real life and fate, but also presenting gentler works of religious reflection.
