On Tuesday October 5 at 7:30 pm Washington Musica Viva will present another great chamber music program at The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum, 10001 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda MD 20814. (The Ratner Museum is just outside of the Beltway, at the corner of Old Georgetown Rd and Lone Oak Drive). Free parking is available in the museum lot and on Lone Oak Dr. Performing are: Sally McLain and June Huang, violins, Kimberly Buschek, viola, Jodi Beder, cello, Gary Poster, bass voice, and Carl Banner, piano. (The strings are the same wonderful quartet who performed on EVOLUTIONS at St. Columba's last season). Program: Gabriel Faure's Piano Quintet #1 in D Minor Op. 89, perhaps the most perfectly ethereal and heavenly masterpiece ever written for this instrumental combination (and the inspiration for artist Marilyn Banner's "Ladders of Light"!). Johannes Brahms' hot-blooded Piano Quartet #1 in G minor Op. 25 (passionate anthems, a stormy scherzo, and a Gypsy Finale). Stephen Paulus' "The Long Shadow of Lincoln" (on Civil War poems of Carl Sandburg), a reflective and grateful work on patriotism, war's aftermath, and hopes for the future, which could not be more timely. Aaron Copland's only Piano Quartet, a masterfully comic and tragic work that reflects Copland's Lithuanian Jewish background. This will not be your everyday chamber music program! Tickets may be purchased for $15 in advance; send a check to Washington Musica Viva, 9925 Dickens Avenue, Bethesda MD 20814. Or tickets may be purchased for $18 at the door. http://www.geocities.com/washingtonmusicaviva David Cheng <[log in to unmask]>