DIRT

Date: February 29, 2008
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Place: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, UMD College Park
Tickets: $25 general, $7 student (one ticket per ID), call (301) 405-2787

Washington Theatre Group presents DIRT written by Robert Schneider (translated from German into English by Dr. Paul Dvorak).

Directed by Dr. David Levin, this play about prejudice and anti-foreign sentiment stars Shahin Shakibi.

Soheil Nasseri

Born to Persian parents in Santa Monica, California, Soheil Nasseri began studying the piano at the age of five and at the age of twenty moved to New York to study intensively with the late Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001). Following the death of Mr. Schnabel, Mr. Nasseri became a protégé of Jerome Lowenthal who remains Mr. Nasseri’s mentor today. Other significant teachers include Irina Edelman, Anna Balakerskaia, Clinton Adams, Eva Pierrou, and Ann Schein.

Soheil Nasseri's program at the Kennedy Center includes the Washington premiere of Kaikhosru Sorabji's Sonata No. 0.

Program:

• Kaikhosru Sorabji: Sonata No. O (1917)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 12 in A-Flat, Op. 26
• Johannes Brahms: Waltzes, Op. 39
• Robert Schumann: Concerto Without Orchestra, Op. 14

Tickets:
$35, $25, students with ID $10 - available by (202)467-4600 or toll free at (800)444-1324 -- or online

Sponsor: Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington (ZAMWI)

February 23, 2008 (Saturday) @ 7:30 P.M. in the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Junoon at National Geographic

Pakistani, Sufi rock group Junoon plays at the National Geographic Society in a concert opened by Falu

Tickets: $35, $30, children $17, available online or call (202) 857-7700

February 22, 2008 @ 8:00 P.M. in the Grosvenor Auditorium at National Geographic Society, 1600 M Street NW, Washington DC 20036

Le Trio Joubran at UVA

Le Trio Joubran will come as close to Washington, DC, as Charlottesville, VA, during their North American tour.

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Tickets: general $15, students $12, available online

Tour Schedule: see online

Agent: Eye for Talent

February 19, 2008 (Tuesday) 8:00 P.M. @ Mc Leod Auditorium at the University of Virginia

Variety: Kennedy Center Arab World Festival 2009

Today, the Kennedy Center begins its Japan Festival entitled Japan: Culture and Hyperculture, running February 5-17, reported Variety Magazine.

The Hollywood rag also mentioned next year's upcoming Arab World Festival will celebrate cultures of countries throughout the Middle East.

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