Baritone Jerome Barry, Artistic Director of the Embassy Series concerts, has been the teacher of many aspiring singers in the Washington area. He therefore has a special knowledge of the art song across cultural traditions. Barry, who delights in welcoming audiences or performers in any one of the major European languages, had put together a brilliant concept, a concert to be offered at both the Hungarian Embassy and the Polish Embassy, on successive evenings, to showcase an important Polish-born mezzo-soprano and an emerging Hungarian tenor.
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By Myron Belkind, The National Press Club There was no electricity, and so the first concert that the National Press Club co-sponsored with the city’s famed Embassy Series went ahead by candlelight. The more than 50 guests who attended the first of two nights of concerts arranged through […]
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