Hear us again in the Washington Early Music Festival this June.
Wednesday, June 16 at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, Seward Square, SE, we present "Springtime in Paris".
Music by French composers of the early 1700's will include Boismortier, Hotteterre, Marais, Couperin and others.
We are one of many concerts presented on and around Capitol Hill in Washington DC from May 24 to June 26. Go to www.earlymusicdc.org for more information and directions.
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.
Join us April 11 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 Geminiani.
We welcome Doug Wolters, who is joining us to play on cello.
Admission is free with a collection to be taken for the victims recent disasters.
All funds will go to UMCOR, the relief agency of the United Methodist Church.
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, recorders, string bass, cello and harpsichord.
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Douglas Wolters, cello
