National Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Soloists, Sister Helen-$10 Orchestra Seats!

To celebrate John Adams at 70, the NSO performs the D.C. premiere of the American composer’s Passion oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary, which has been hailed as "an extraordinary work, containing some of Adams’s richest, most daring music" (The New York Times). An impassioned and daring composition for chorus, soloists, and orchestra, Adams's unorthodox retelling depicts Jesus’s final weeks from the viewpoints of Mary Magdalene and her siblings, Martha and Lazarus, imbuing an old form with contemporary sounds, ancient texts with new material, and a traditional story with modern meaning.

The Kennedy Center is offering tickets at the special (and amazing) price of $10 for all remaining orchestra seating for the performance on Saturday, March, 10, 2018 at 8pm in the Concert Hall Theater. Tickets are regularly as high as $74.00 in the orchestra section. You can click on this link (http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NSCSM?promotionno=289361) and your discount will appear when you look for tickets.
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NSCSM?promotionno=289361
If you call or stop by the Box Office for the discount, be sure to mention Offer Number "289361."

The program stars mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, who reprises her "utterly convincing" (Los Angeles Times) account of the title role, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Zach Borichevsky, and countertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, and Nathan Medley, as well as the University of Maryland Concert Choir. The work's two Kennedy Center performances also represent a highlight of Gianandrea Noseda’s much-anticipated first season as Music Director of the NSO.

Special event before the show:
Saturday, Mar. 10 at 6:30 p.m.: ForeWords: "The Ministry of Mary Magdalene"
John Adams will take part in this far-reaching, one-of-a-kind talk before the second performance of the Gospel According to the Other Mary. To investigate some of the themes underpinning his oratorio and the ways they resonate today, he will be joined by Sister Helen Prejean--the influential death penalty abolitionist whose first book Dead Man Walking inspired both the film and opera of that name (presented by Washington National Opera in the winter of 2017)--and her fellow Christian thinkers Dr. Sherry Davis Molock, Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training at The George Washington University, Yolanda Pierce, Dean of the Howard University Divinity School, and Susan Timoney, Secretary, Pastoral Ministry and Social Concerns, Archdiocese of Washington.