Saturday, Aug 16, 2025 at 12:00pm
Each August Staunton Music Festival welcomes over 80 acclaimed professionals from around the world to perform in 30 events. Multiple concerts daily make for an exhilarating immersion in chamber, vocal, and symphonic music. The days are given over to one-hour, free admission programs, while the evenings come alive with longer, ticketed concerts preceded by special dinners and short lectures. And for those who enjoy music after dark, look for the Nightcap concerts that take place at 10:00 pm in interesting spaces downtown.
Schedule of Events:
12:00pm - Heaven and Earth
Beethoven is featured in this one-hour concert, including the Piano Concerto No. 4 and songs based on his music
Silcher - Songs on melodies from Beethoven’s Sonatas and Symphonies
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, arr. for piano and string sextet
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church 214 W Beverley St, Staunton
3:00pm - Midday Baroque Escape
Quantz - Sonata in E Minor, for two unaccompanied flutes
Rossi - Sonata for two violins and continuo
Caccini - Airs for voice and continuo
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 for two horns, three oboes, bassoon, violino piccolo, and strings
Beat the midday heat of August and escape to another time and place. This all-Baroque program features Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and works by Rossi, Caccini, and Quantz. Plus all guests receive a serving of gelato as they exit, courtesy of The Split Banana!
Location: Blackfriars Playhouse 10 S Market St, Staunton
7:30pm - I Could Have Danced All Night
Strauss - Vienna Blood, for voice and chamber ensemble, arr. by Wadsworth
Guinivan - Ritual Dance No. 1, for percussion quartet
Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61
Van Eyck - Pavane Lachrymae, for recorder
Schoenberg - Tanzschritte: Moderato, from Suite Op. 29 for chamber ensemble
Loewe - "I Could Have Danced All Night," from My Fair Lady, for voice and chamber ensemble, arr. Wadsworth
Milhaud - Scaramouche, Op. 165b, for two pianos
Wadsworth - Walzer einer neuen Liebe, for vocal quartet and piano four hands
Dvořák - Allegretto grazioso, from Symphony No 8 for orchestra
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 1, for orchestra
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church 214 W Beverley St, Staunton
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