Saturday, Aug 23, 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 - Serenades at Noon
Doors open 11:15 - Concert ends 1:00
All seating is unreserved
Piazzolla - "Café 1930," from Histoires du Tango, for flute and guitar
Work for solo harp TBA
Heucke - Sextet for winds and piano (world premiere)
Location: First Presbyterian Church 100 East Frederick St, Staunton
3:00pm - Baroque Lovers' Afternoon
Doors open 2:15 - Concert ends at 4:00
All seating is unreserved
This audience favorite will feature two concertos by the prolific G. P. Telemann, as well as vocal music by the French master Michael Lambert.
Telemann - Concerto in A Minor for recorder, viola, strings, and continuo, TWV 52:a1
Lambert - Airs for voices and continuo
Telemann - Overture-Suite in D Major for trumpet, violin, strings, and continuo, TWV 55:D7
Matching challenge: the concert's sponsors will match all donations received at this event!
Location: Central United Methodist Church 14 N Lewis St, Staunton
7:30pm - Rule, Britannia!
Doors open 7:00 - All seating is reserved
Free preconcert talk begins at 6:45
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves, for flute, harp and strings
Gilbert & Sullivan - "Three Little Maids," from The Mikado
Beethoven - Variations on "Rule, Britannia!" for fortepiano
Dunstable - O quam pulchra est
The Beatles - Suite for voice and chamber ensemble, arr. by Berio
Handel - Zadok the Priest for chorus and orchestra
Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church 214 W Beverley St, Staunton
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