Create. Innovate. Educate.

Sunday, June 29 at 2:00PM in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall
One of our Festival closing events, we celebrate a regional organization with an international flavor. The WCC’s program gives voice to the interests of all children, celebrating cultural diversity through music, promoting positive international relations, and asking people to work together to create a peaceful, healthy world for children. Through singing, WCC members explore musical content, and use music, art, and special pre-show activities to mediate cross-cultural differences and become peacemakers.
$15 / $10
Family focused performance.

Fairfax Choral Society presents:
Saturday, June 28 at 8:00pm in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Experience the music of film favorites like you have never heard it before! Back by popular demand, FCS presents choral classics from the cinema performed live by our Adult Chorus and full orchestra. Featuring music and scenes from Harry Potter, Star Wars Episode I, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan and more, this multimedia production highlights how music enhances and deepens our emotional experience of the movies. Join FCS as we bring movie music to life!
$35 / $25
Family focused performance.

Sunday, June 22 at 7pm in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Under the direction of Jim Carroll, Met Jazz blends the top Big Band Jazz musicians from the region with the best of Mason’s faculty and students. Followed by the Jazz Club in the Grand Tier for a modest additional charge of $10.
$35 / $25

Mason Festival Opera
Love’s Comedy
A concert performance of a world premiere opera.
Music composition by Kim D. Sherman, libretto by Rick Davis.
Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen
Saturday, June 21 at 8pm in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall

First explored in last season’s Vision Series at Mason, this two-act opera will receive its first complete performance in this unique concert-style presentation, featuring professional, student and community opera singers. Love’s Comedy is Ibsen’s exploration of the gap between romantic ideals and the facts of love and marriage in the real world. Soaring melodies, witty choruses, and a timeless story are the hallmarks of this world premiere operatic event.
$30 / $20

The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Dream of America
Saturday, June 14 at 8pm in the Center for the Arts Concert Hall

The FSO teams up with TFA for the musical culmination of the year-long Harmony project – Celebrating Our Heritage through the Arts. The program includes James Beckel’s Liberty for All, combining stirring orchestral music with the inspirational words of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Kennedy, followed by Leonard Bernstein’s exploration of racism and the immigrant experience in New York in the ‘50’s, with Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. The evening concludes with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, celebrating the immigrant experience and the American dream through powerful symphonic music, historic images and spoken word performances from the Ellis Island Oral History Project. A multi-disciplinary celebration of America!
$45 / $35 / $25 / $15
Family focused performance.