by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | News, News & Views
After being postponed due to Hurricane Florence, the world’s largest Viking Ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre (Draken), will now be stopping in Norfolk, Virginia for a three-day stopover from September 28 through September 30 during its Expedition America: East...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham The other day in a class I teach at ODU called Music, Culture & Media, I asked the students if any of them had heard of Pete Seeger. “Is he related to Bob Seger?” one of them asked. I thought the anecdote was sufficiently amusing to share it on...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Music, Music News
(Jazz pianist John Toomey) By Tom Robotham Hampton Roads is a culturally vibrant region, thanks to major institutions like the Virginia Symphony and the Chrysler Museum, as well as countless smaller organizations and venues. But one thing it’s always lacked is a...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Old Dominion University Professor of Music Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn have been the dynamic piano duo co-chairing the prestigious Norfolk Chamber Consort since 2009. Through their collaborative artistic vision the Consort has continued to...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Opening with a multi-genre Tony Award winner by a great 20th Century American composer, and closing with a great operatic tearjerker, Virginia Opera’s 44th Season includes a “rom-com” by Gaetano Donizetti, Mozart’s look at the romantic conquests...
