The Washington Post - USA (2022-03-06)

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spring arts preview | pop music

sense of melody and timbre conjure an

almost otherworldly sense of gravity and

light — maybe even for her. “They’re airy,

they’re uplifting, extremely feminine, ex-

tremely soft, but so strong, like the

brightness of the sun,” Pimienta said of her

newer songs in a chat with Rolling Stone

last year. “I can only really describe it in

metaphor.”

Lido Pimienta A pril 5 at Songbyrd Music House.

songbyrddc.com.

Tenille Townes

I “know it’s supposed to happen naturally,”

Townes admits on her terrific new single

“When’s It Gonna Happen,” but the Canadian

country singer still knows she’s asking a

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horn players, one of which is the intrepid

saxophonist-clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings

— stood near the center of London’s acceler-

ant jazz scene at the start of the pandemic,

then did its best to keep things moving last

spring with the release of its bustling fourth

album, “Black to the Future.” Wherever Sons

of Kemet are headed next, they’re likely

moving fast. Don’t blink.

Sons of Kemet March 27 at Union Stage.

unionstage.com.

Lido Pimienta

Pimienta’s music frequently unfurls over

the traditional folk rhythms of her native

Colombia, but the Canadian pop singer’s

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Country crooning, Colombian

roots feature in m usical revival

LAUREN DUNN

Canadian country singer Tenille Townes will perform at Union Stage on April 29.

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Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell in Don Quixote.

Photo by Erin Baiano courtesy of Vail Dance Festival.

Art © Mo Willems

Now through March 20 | Hall of Nations

Author, illustrator, and Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence

Mo Willems exhibits a series of large-scale abstractions inspired by the

music and genius of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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March 25 & 26 | Concert Hall

Carl Ruggles: Angels**

Michael Tilson Thomas: Four Preludes on

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Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

March 31 & April 1 | Concert Hall

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

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April 7 & 9 | Concert Hall

Hélène Grimaud plays Ravel

Experience the “cracking vitality and wit” (The

New York Times) of one of today’s most brilliant

classical stars as French pianist Hélène Grimaud

takes on French composer Maurice Ravel’s jazzy,

jaunty Piano Concerto in G.

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