by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Get this straight: Anderson East is from Nashville, but he’s no country singer. On his latest, “Encore,” East is a flat-out blue-eyed soul crooner, backed by arrangements Curtis Mayfield would love. He’s St. Paul without the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music
By Montague Gammon III The opera super star whose 2014 Super Bowl performance taught 111 million Americans how the first verse of our National Anthem should sound, the soprano who has been likened to all-time greats Renata Tebaldi and Maria Callas, whose “Danny Boy”...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
By MICHAEL CURRY The upcoming performances by Virginia Ballet Theatre in its annual Winter Concert at the ODU Theatre promise to be exciting, entertaining and enlightening. Artistic Director Ricardo Melendez has put together an ambitious program of classical and...