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Dartmouth Films will release Sheila Hayman’s feature film Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn on 27 October throughout the UK

<strong>Editorial:</strong> For centuries the achievements of women have been ignored in classical composition. That can’t go on

Your essential guide to the upcoming season in classical and choral offerings in the Washington, D.C area.

For centuries, much of what today we call classical music was commissioned by the church for use in worship. Professional musicians were often church musicians, and their business was religion. Palestrina, master of Italian polyphony, was music director at St. John Lateran in Rome. He wrote more than a hundred masses and about as many hymns.

This year’s four-dayer will focus primarily on works from the late Romantic period, taking in charts from the likes of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Grieg.