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2019
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September 7 èßäAVAnnounces The Official Opening of The REACH
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October 16 The Science Behind Art and Learning
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July 31 èßäAVPresents Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
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July 18 Kennedy Center Announces 2019 Honorees
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July 12 New Programming Announced for the REACH Opening Festival
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July 2 Announces Winners of the 2019 VSA International Young Soloists Competition
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July 1 Washington National Opera announces the 2019-2020 Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
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June 21 NSO Returns to Wolf Trap for Summer 2019 Concerts
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June 19 Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts Announces Gold Medal in the Arts
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June 7 Additional Comedy Programming Added
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May 29 The REACH Opens with Free 16-Day Festival, September 7 through September 22
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May 7 Kennedy Center Announces 2019 Mark Twain Prize Recipient: Dave Chappelle
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April 19 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition Winners
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April 12 Introducing the 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artists Fellows
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March 28 Kennedy Center Announces 2019-2020 Theater Season
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March 28 Kennedy Center Announces Performances for Young Audiences 2019-2020 Season
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March 14 Kennedy Center Announces 2019-2020 Ballet and Contemporary Dance Season
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March 6 2019 Kennedy Center Arts Summit
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February 22 Announcing Mo Willems as Kennedy Center Artist in Residence
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February 13 Kennedy Center Gala 2019
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February 4 Washington National Opera Announces 2019-2020 Season
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February 4 National Symphony Orchestra Announces 2019-2020 Season
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February 4 Fortas Chamber Music 2019-2020 Season Announcement
2018
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December 20 NSO Announces 2019 "In Your Neighborhood" Schedule of Events
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November 29 Arts Across America: Anacostia D.C. November 30
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November 26 Gloria Estefan to Host the 41st Kennedy Center Honors
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November 19 Ballet Across America 2019
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October 31 Gianandrea Noseda and NSO Give World Premiere of "Art of War," A Commissioned Work by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates
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October 2 DC Organizations Announce Launch of The Human Journey
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September 24 Former Chorister, Clifford D. Thomson, Bequeaths $1.1 Million to Washington National Opera
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September 22 Noseda's Contract as NSO MUsic Director Extended Through 2024-2025
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September 18 WNO Presents Marian Anderson Vocal Award 2018 to Ryan Speedo Green
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September 10 Music Director Gianandrea Noseda Makes His First Appointments to NSO, Adding Six New Musicians This Season
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September 5 Mark Twain Prize Talent and New Creative Team
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September 4 DIRECT CURRENT 2019 Programs
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August 30 AOI Festival 2019 Announced
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August 30 BCS: Little Shop of Horrors Casting
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August 16 The 2018 VSA Emerging Young Artists Competition Announced
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August 7 èßäAVPresents the 17th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival
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July 25 Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Honorees
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July 24 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Institutes of Health, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts, Present Sound Health: Music and the Mind Shaping Our Children;s Lives Through Music Engagement
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June 28 èßäAVand The Dizzy Feet Foundation Present National Dance Day 2018
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June 27 NSO's Summer 2019 Appearances at Wolf Trap
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June 8 Kennedy Center in collaboration with The Hispanic Division and the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress presents: "LA VOX LATINA"
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June 5 Kennedy Center's First Ever Expansion - The REACH - To Open in September 2019
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June 1 Kennedy Center Announces Its 2018-2019 Jazz Season
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May 24 Washington National Opera Announces Artists Selected for the 2018-2019 Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program
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May 23 Mark Twain Prize Recipient Announced
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May 7 20th Annual Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead
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May 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Award and Scholarship Recipients Announced
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May 2 VSA Announces Winners of the 2018 VSA International Young Soloists Competition
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April 19 64 D.C. Area Teachers Honored by the Kennedy Center
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April 19 Will.i.am, Michael Giacchino, Grace Potter, Coheed and Cambria, John Cho, and Nick Sagan Join NSO for NASA's 60th Anniversary
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April 18 èßäAVPresents Ballet Nacional de Cuba in Don Quixote and Giselle
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April 17 èßäAVAnnounces Arts Across America
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April 14 Patti LuPone and Tituss Burgess, along with Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Kathryn Lewek, and Jaime Bernstein Headline WNO Gala
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April 11 Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Kennedy Center Citizen Artists Fellows
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April 10 Kennedy Center Announces 2018-2019 Theater Season
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April 10 Kennedy Center Announces 2018-2019 Performances for Young Audiences Season
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April 10 Kennedy Center Announces 2018-2019 Renée Fleming VOICES
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April 10 NSO Announces Pops Programming for 2018-2019 Season
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April 10 Kennedy Center Names Winners of 2018 VSA Playwright Discovery Competition
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April 9 Guilford County Schools Board of Education Receives Kennedy Center and National School Boards Association Award
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April 3 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 2018 Announced
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April 2 Kennedy Center Announces Talent for Between the World and Me, A World Premiere Theatrical Performance
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March 22 Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Recipients of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards
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March 20 Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Program for District of Comedy Festival
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March 14 Kennedy Center Announces New Partnership with The Second City
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March 8 Kennedy Center Announces 2018-2019 Ballet and Contemporary Dance Season
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March 7 Kennedy Center and Washington Performing Arts Presents 2018 SHIFT
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March 6 Kennedy Center Announces its Hip Hop Culture Council
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March 1 Kennedy Center Presents 2018 Kennedy Center Arts Summit
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February 22 Kennedy Center Announces 2018 Spring Gala: An Evening with Mavis Staples and Special Guests
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January 30 Kennedy Center Announces 2018-2019 Season of Fortas Chamber Music Concerts
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January 30 Washington National Opera Announces its 2018-2019 Season
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January 30 NSO Announces Classical Programming for 2018-2019 Season
2017
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December 6 Kennedy Center Announces Artes De Cuba: From the Island to the World
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December 1 NSO Announces 2018 In Your Neighborhood Schedule of Events Throughout D.C.
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November 30 Kennedy Center announces a National competition for design proposals for the renovation of the Israeli Lounge
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November 8 WNI Presents the 2018 American Opera Initiative Festival
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November 2 Kennedy Center Announces Lineup for First DIRECT CURRENT, Its New Contemporary Culture Immersion
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October 19 Kennedy Center and Women in Government Select Senator Carolyn Nelson for Award
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October 12 Updated Talent Lineup Announced for Mark Twain Prize Honoring David Letterman
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September 26 èßäAVAnnounces New Visions/New Voices 2018
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September 22 Washington National Opera Names Timothy O'Leary as General Director
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September 14 Terrace Gallery Re-Opening
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September 12 èßäAVKicks Off International Celebration of Leonard Bernstein at 100
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August 31 Shear Madness Celebrates 30 Years
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August 23 Kennedy Center Announces 2017-2018 Hip Hop Culture Season
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August 21 Kennedy Center Announces Honors 2017 Slate
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August 21 UPDATED: Kennedy Center Announces the 16th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival
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August 19 Kennedy Center Responds to White House Statement Regarding 2017 Honors
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August 4 Kennedy Center's 2017 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®) Awards
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July 31 Washington National Opera announces the 2017-2018 Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists
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July 20 Talent Lineup Announced for Mark Twain Prize Honoring David Letterman
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July 14 The Kennedy Centers Presents National Dance Day on July 29, 2017
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June 21 Philippe Auguin to Become Music Director Emeritus of the WNO Orchestra
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June 15 Kennedy Center and HiARTS Announces 17th Annual Hip Hop Theater Festival
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June 5 Gary Ginstling Named Executive Director of the National Symphony Orchestra
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May 26 VSA Announces Winners of the 2017 VSA International Young Soloists Competition
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May 18 Kennedy Center Announces District of Comedy
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May 16 David Letterman To Receive Kennedy Center's Mark twain Prize in 20th Anniversary Year
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May 16 Kennedy Center Announces 2017-2018 Fall Comedy Season
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May 11 2017-2018 Season Pops Programming
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May 11 National Symphony Orchestra Names Ben Folds as Artistic Advisor
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May 8 Leonard Bernstein at 100 D.C. Partners
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May 1 George Lopez Live HBO Special
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April 26 èßäAVand NIH in Association with the NEA Present Music and the Mind
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April 24 Kennedy Center Announces 2017-2018 Season: Performance for Young Audiences
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April 24 Kennedy Center Announces Broadway Center Stage
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April 24 Kennedy Center Announces 2017-2018 Theater Season
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April 14 33 D.C. Teachers to be Honored by the Kennedy Center
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April 10 èßäAVPresents the 2017 Kennedy Center Arts Summit
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March 27 Lexington County School District One Board of Trustees of Lexington, South Carolina receive 29th annual Kennedy Center and National School Boards
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March 22 èßäAVAnnounces the 2017 Recipients of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspiration Teacher Awards
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March 13 èßäAVAnnounces Participants in 19th Annual Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead
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March 10 Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival: Abbey Lincoln Tribute
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March 9 Talent Announces for Kennedy Center's 2017 Spring Gala
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March 8 èßäAVAnnounces its 2017-2018 Ballet and Contemporary Dance Season
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March 8 èßäAVAnnounces the 2017-2018 Season of Mason Bates's Jukebox
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March 8 èßäAVAnnounces the 2017-2018 Season of Renée Fleming VOICES
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March 8 Kennedy Center Announces Leonard Bernstein at 100
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March 8 Kennedy Center Announces the Re-Opening of the Terrace Theater October 3-November 5, 2017
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March 8 èßäAVAnnounces DIRECT CURRENT
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February 24 èßäAVAnnounces JFK Centennial Week, May 23-29, 2017
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February 23 National Symphony Orchestra to Perform Live Music for NPR's All Things Considered
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February 13 Kennedy Center Announces Sound Health, A New Partnership with NIH
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January 25 èßäAVannounces the 2017 Spring Gala: "Come Together: A Celebration of John Lennon"
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January 23 èßäAVAnnounces 2017-2018 Fortas Chamber Music Season
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January 23 Washington National Opera Announces 2017-2018 Season
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January 23 National Symphony Orchestra Announces 2017-2018 Season
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January 12 John Holiday is the 2017 Winner of The Marian Anderson Vocal Award
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January 10 èßäAVCollaborates With Sundance Institute to Bring Theater to Palestinian Playwrights to Washington D.C.
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January 5 èßäAVCelebrates Ell Fitzgerald's Centennial With A Series of Programs
2016
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December 15 NSO Announces 2017 in Your Neighborhood Schedule of Events in Southeast/Southwest
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December 14 Comedy At the Kennedy Center Spring and Summer 2017 Lineup to feature Jay Leno, Gabriel Inglesias, and Kevin Nealon
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December 13 White Cherry Entertainment Named Long-Term Executive Producers of Kennedy Center Honors
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December 9 èßäAVPresents A Lunar New Year Celebration, February 3-6 2017
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December 6 American Opera Initiative Festival, January 13-15, 2017, featuring the World Premier of The Dictator's Wife
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December 4 èßäAVand CBS Announce New Broadcast Agreement
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October 18 Kennedy Center Announces Talent Update for 19th Annual Mark Twain Prize, Celebrating the Humor of Bill Murray
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October 14 NSO Announces 2016-2017 Season of Declassified: Fridays at 9, Series Begins Nov. 18 with Music of Bryce Dessner
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September 27 Kennedy Center Presents The Start Of The 2016-2017 Fortas Chamber Music Concert Series
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September 13 Talent announced for 2016 Mark Twain Prize celebrating the humor of Bill Murray
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September 1 VSA Presents One-Year Art Exhibition, (Re)Invention