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DESTINATION PARTY | Cultural Committee Tour of the Italian American Museum DC – IAMDC | 19 Nov | 2:45 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
Event Overview:Join the Cultural Committee to tour The Italian American Museum DC – IAMDC! Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 2:45 pm OPEN TO MEMBERS & GUESTS Cost: $20 tour only - $65 wine tasting & tour The Cultural Committee invites ten club members to immerse themselves in all things Italian! Please join committee member Gail Frances and our guide Claudia Boaccorsi, director of the museum, on a visit to The Italian American Museum DC - IAMDC - which features paintings, ceramics, mosaics, and sculptures of artists living in DC. The tour will include the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Holy Rosary still officiates the mass on Sundays in the Italian language, and the congregation gathers afterward in the great hall and is served coffee, cappuccino, and Italian pastries. A discount is offered to those who are attending both the museum tour and the wine tasting at the Arts Club. Club members will meet at the museum, 595 3rd St NW, Washington, DC 20001 at 3 pm
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CULTURE | "La Dolce Vita" Italian Wine Tasting & Live Mandolin | 19 Nov | 5:30 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
Event Overview:"La Dolce Vita" Italian Wine Tasting & Live Mandolin The Arts Club of Washington Cultural Committee is pleased to provide an evening of Italian wine and music. Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm OPEN TO MEMBERS & GUESTS $50 wine tasting only - $65 wine tasting & tour Join members in tasting wines from five different Italian regions. You will experience a taste of Sicily, Sardinia, Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto wines - all of which are distinct - while being regaled by live mandolin. Italy has over 5000 grapes, making it one of the most diverse wine producing countries in the world. The presented vintages have all been hand picked by an acclaimed sommelier who will give a description of each and its reflection of the particular region's microclimate. Most of the wines presented can be ordered at fine DC wine establishments, for those wishing to have more. The event is co-hosted with Ciao DC. Free parking for members at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW at the corner of I Street and 20th Street. The entrance of the Colonial garage is located on 20th Street NW between I Street and K Street. Use the first garage entrance on the left.
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MUSIC | Distinguished Speaker: Conductor Angel Gil-Ordonez | 20 Nov | 6:30 PM | LEARN MORECLOSE |
Event Overview:Distinguished Speaker Conductor Angel Gil-Ordonez Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:30 pm OPEN TO THE PUBLIC $30 Members - $40 Non-Members “The Orchestra Conductor of the XXI Century and the Orchestra of the future” What is the function of the conductor? How has this function evolved until our day? Are orchestras adapting to the audiences of the XXIst century? Music Director Angel Gil-Ordóñez will discuss these matters and show video clips of great conductors of the past in rehearsal and performance.
Angel Gil-Ordóñez is Music Director of DC’s PostClassical Ensemble, Principal Guest Conductor of New York’s Perspectives Ensemble, and Music Director of the Georgetown University Orchestra. He also serves as lead advisor for Trinitate Philharmonia, a program in León, Mexico modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema. Mr. Gil-Ordóñez is also a regular guest conductor at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, and at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington (IN). He has appeared as guest conductor with the American Composers Orchestra, Opera Colorado, Pacific Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. The former Associate Conductor of Spain’s National Symphony Orchestra, Gil-Ordóñez received the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, the country’s highest civilian decoration, for his devotion to sharing Spanish culture with the world. He has recorded nine albums for Naxos, including PostClassical Ensemble’s three DVDs featuring classic 1930s films with newly recorded soundtracks by Aaron Copland, Silvestre Revueltas, and Virgil Thomson. 6:30 p.m. - Beer/Wine Open Bar 7:00 p.m. - Distinguished Speaker Angel Gil-Ordonez 7:45 p.m. - Reception with Mr. Gil-OrdonezDiscounted parking (free for members with membership card) at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW at the corner of I Street and 20th Street (Colonial Garage). Special Performance the Evening Prior: On Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 7:30pm, Angel Gil-Ordóñez will be conducting “THE PALE BLUE DOT: A MUSICAL VOYAGE INSPIRED BY NATURE” at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. The program will include:
Tickets are available here.
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