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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | News, News & Views
(Businessmen and community activists Robert Roman & Claus Ihlemann of Decorum are part of what makes Ghent a great place) Ghent in Norfolk, Virginia, was named one of this year’s 15 Great Places by the American Planning Association. As one of the 2018 Great...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 22, 2018 | Beer News, Drink
BY JEFF MAISEY Nine breweries from Virginia, including Chesapeake’s Big Ugly Brewing Company, won medals at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. Here are Virginia’s 2018 award winners. GOLD MEDAL Lost Rhino Brewing Co., Shooter McMunn’s,...
