Due to the amount of snowfall and potential lack of street clearing, our concert on Sunday, the 31st of January, is cancelled. We will reschedule the program at a later date. Thanks for staying with us.
Live at the Kennedy Center
Experience us live at our performances on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Go to www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/ and type La Menestrandise in the Search box. Listen and watch one or all three of our performances there.
Our Latest Event
Join us January 31 in Old Town Alexandria. We perform at the Washington Street Methodist Church, 115 S. Washington St. at 4 p.m.
The concert is entitled "Ex-Pats in London", a sampling of composers from the continent who settled in London to live, work, become famous and even rich.
Works are by Handel, Loiellet, Pepusch, Barsanti and Abel.
We welcome Doug Wolters, who is joining us to play on cello and viola da gamba.
Admission is free with a collection to be taken for the victims in Haiti.
All funds will go to UMCOR, the relief agency of the United Methodist Church.
Introduction to La Ménéstrandise
The members of La Ménéstrandise are freelance musicians of the Washington D.C. area with extraordinary talents and varied backgrounds. Specializing in music of the late Renaissance to the Baroque , La Ménéstrandise is an ensemble of oboe, violin, recorders, string bass and harpsichord.
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- David Brundage, oboe and recorders, Julianna Chitwood, violin,
- Charles Boyer, recorders
- Mildred Martin, string bass
- Vera Kochanowsky, harpsichord
