The Center for the Arts is proud to co-present a soaring classical music program by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, featuring George Li performing Rachmaninoff’s immortal Piano Concerto No. 2. Praised by The Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command, and depth of expression,” Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and effortless grace far beyond his years. He won the Silver Medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition when he was 19 and was named the recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Li’s performances of Rachmaninoff are acclaimed for their “sheer precision” and “sense of discovery, as if the music was quite new” (Bachtrack). Music Director Christopher Zimmerman and the FSO bookend the evening with a pair of Sir Edward Elgar’s rousing masterpieces, graduation staple Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1 and the passion-filled Symphony No. 1. Don’t miss this inspirational program from one of the premier regional orchestras in the country, which The Washington Post calls “a crown jewel of the cultural landscape.”
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Step Afrika!'s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (12/5 - 12/23) | |
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The Snowman and The Snowdog
Imagination Stage (11/22 - 1/4)
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Chanukah in the Dark
Theater J (12/6 - 12/21) | |
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Guys and Dolls
Shakespeare Theatre Company (12/2 - 1/4) | |
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ho ho ho ha ha ha ha
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (11/13 - 12/21) | |
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Catch Me If You Can
Shenandoah Conservatory (2/26 - 3/1) | |
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CELTIC WOMAN Symphony Christmas Tour 2025
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (12/16 - 12/16) | |
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The Okee Dokee Brothers
The Music Center at Strathmore (3/22 - 3/22) | |
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Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron
ARTfactory (2/27 - 3/8) | |
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The Mad Ones
Three Notch Theatre (3/6 - 3/15) | |
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How Shakespeare Saved My Life
Folger Shakespeare Library (6/9 - 7/5) | |
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