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The Angela Bofill Experience is a musical extravaganza IF YOU GO The Angela Bofill By Emily Cary Maysa as she sings my signature playing to packed houses each home, she has recovered much Experience Special to The Washington Examiner numbers, ‘I Try’ and ‘Angel of the time she came to town. In addi- of her speech and mobility. Best » Where: The Birchmere Night,’ along with lots of others tion to her many dance hits, the of all, with the help of her man- » When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday Vocalist Angela Bofill returns to my Washington fans always loved. ballad “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” ager, Rich Engel, she is coming » Info: $35; 703-549-7500; Washington to narrate the Angela Maysa and I first met when we always brings her to mind. back with the remarkable tour. It birchmere.com Bofill Experience, a multimedia appeared together at [a] jazz fes- Today she is making great prog- begins this week in Philadelphia event featuring her band, the pop- tival. I saw then that she is a nice ress as she continues recuperating and Washington and closes in New ular singer Maysa performing the person with a beautiful voice and I from the two strokes that left her York in September. songs that made Angela famous, don’t know anyone I’d rather hear paralyzed. After the first in 2006, “The opportunity to work with video of my performances. and jazz flutist Dave Valentin. performing my songs.” she underwent extensive speech Rich on this project and to reach “Without the support of my ● “Dave was my first crush, an Bofill burst on the music scene and physical therapy. To deal with people again gives me great joy,” good family and the uncondi- old friend,” Bofill said, speaking in 1978 with “Angie,” her debut her lack of health insurance, radio she said. “I look forward to being tional love from my puppy Momo, from her home in California. “We album that started her career stations around the country held among the people I love who have I would not have been able to started out together and it means as a Latin R&B singer. By 2004, benefit concerts. such a powerful healing energy. I accomplish this. It’s a miracle I’m a great deal to me that he will join she had recorded 11 albums, sev- Just as she was improving, she hope they enjoy hearing me tell still around. The message I want me on this tour to play and chat eral of which have been reissued. suffered a second stroke in 2007. the stories about my songs and to leave with people is that life is with the audience. My band that’s During those years, she amassed After considerably more therapy some of the experiences associ- precious and they must not take it based in D.C. will be there to back many fans in the Washington area, and a long stay in a convalescent ated with them and seeing the for granted.”

Name:   Capital Celebrations -  Cash; Width: # 34p8.4; Depth: 7.5 in; Color: Black Violinist Augustin Hadelich, BSO plus three, Capital Celebrations - Cash; File Name: 183931-0; Comment: VA Wine Showcase; Zone: DCSC; Ad Number: 686190 ● perform in spirit of cooperation EXAMINER WASHINGTON THE By Marie Gullard   !" Special to The Washington Examiner    While virtuoso violinist Augustin     Hadelich will not name his favorite composer, he will speak about the        specific piece he plays in his debut    performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this Saturday  at Strathmore. IF YOU GO    “The Brahms [] is one of the great pieces for violin and Baltimore Symphony I think one of the best parts is that it is a very complex piece,” he said. Orchestra “There has to be a lot of communica- » Where: The Music Center at #S$ tion between soloist and orchestra.” Strathmore    Even as his debut with the BSO » When: Saturday, 8 p.m.    marks his first performance under » Info: $28 to $88; 301-581- the baton of Maestro Juanjo Mena, 5100; strathmore.org   Hadelich, who has played the Brahms piece many times, looks forward to \  working with his esteemed col- most renowned conductors of his   leagues. generation. Following his debut with “There are some particularly hard the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra places [in the violin concerto] but to in 2004, he has been invited back the audience, it must not look diffi- every year since. He has conducted S    cult,” continued this award-winning (or is soon to conduct) orchestras      violinist who was born in to such as the Atlanta Symphony, German parents. “I’m really excited Colorado Symphony and the Phila-    because the [BSO] has such a sense delphia Orchestra. Worldwide, he of cooperation.” has appeared with orchestras that Composer wrote include the Bucharest Philharmonic,   \   his violin concerto at the peak of his Orchestre National de France and career for his good friend Joseph Orchestra de la Suisse.      Joachim, who premiered the work Also, featured in the program is in 1897. Having closely collaborated ’s Symphony No. 85,          on orchestral balance to complement “La Reine,” a piece believed to be              the violin, it highlights the impressive the favorite of Marie Antoinette, technique of the soloist. and noted for its craftsmanship and      “The Brahms Violin Concerto charm. The second movement fea-               requires a maturity and depth of tures variations of the traditional musicality that is rare in younger French song “La gentile et jeune          R [ artists. And yet, Augustin at age 26 Lisette.”    !" R" $   " %  & has demonstrated a stunning ability Puerto Rican composer Roberto %%" ' !" '  '     (  ) * to make it sing, said Matt Spivey, the Sierra’s Sinfonia No. 4 rounds out symphony’s vice president of artistic the evening’s entertainment. Sierra programming. “Augustin Hadelich is refers to his music as the “tropical-       [             the real thing.” ization” of the classical European As chief conductor of the BBC tradition that he learned in England,    Philharmonic, Mena is one of the the Netherlands and Germany.