Thomas Beveridge, Artistic Director                                                                                  president@newdominion.org

P.O. Box 6691, McLean, VA 22106-6691                                                                                   www.newdominion.org

202-244-7191

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW DOMINION CHORALE TO PRESENT GERSHWIN AND BROADWAY

New Dominion Chorale will end its 32^nd season with Gershwin and Broadway. The concert will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center on the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College, 4915 East Campus Drive, Alexandria, Virginia. 

The concert will be conducted by New Dominion Chorale’s Founder and Artistic Director, Thomas Beveridge, and will feature Mr. Beveridge’s special arrangements of music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Sigmund Romberg.

Of special notice will be Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in its original version for solo piano played by pianist Thomas Pandolfi, known worldwide for his extraordinary presentations of the music of Gershwin.

Featured vocal soloists will be the husband-and-wife team of mezzo soprano Heather Johnson and tenor Benjamin Warschawski, well known to Washington area audiences for their full-voice presentations of classic Broadway and Operetta. Both have extensive experience performing operas throughout the United States, including at The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and Sarasota Opera. Mr. Warschawski has appeared several times with New Dominion Chorale, including many performances of Mr. Beveridge’s Yizkor Requiem.

New Dominion Chorale has distinguished itself amid the crowded choral music scene in the Washington area. Although there are no auditions to join the Chorus – which makes it unique – it has performed most of the repertoire of Western choral music for large chorus and has been praised in The Washington Post as “opulent, precise and powerful.” Artistic Director Thomas Beveridge is recognized as one of the Washington area’s most versatile musicians.

Tickets for the concert may be purchased in advance by going to www.newdominion.org.  Tickets will also be available at the door at the time of the performance for $35 general admission, $30 seniors 62+, and $20 students under 18, with open seating in the concert hall.  The audience will not be required to wear masks or show proof of vaccination. There is free parking at this event.  For more information, please go to www.newdominion.org or president@newdominion.org, or call 202-244-7191.

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New Dominion Chorale is a 501(c)(3) organization supported in part by grants from ARTSFAIRFAX, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts.