Old club finds new venue, with piano

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In 1886, a group of Washington ladies who loved music got together to present concerts and talks in their drawing rooms. One hundred twenty-five years later, the Friday Morning Music Club is still presenting regular concerts by amateur musicians, has its own orchestra, holds the annual Washington International Competitions and is preparing to start its anniversary season with a gala concert on Sept. 24.

For a few weeks, however, the ladies of the FMMC — for the leadership is still nearly all women — thought they were going to usher in their 125th-anniversary season by lifting their concert Steinway out a window of their third-floor performance space with a crane.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 11 Aug, 2011


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