by Jeff Maisey | Nov 21, 2024 | Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison In Patrick Higgins’ memory, he saw the iconic film, “The Last Waltz,” in downtown Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theatre on a big screen with an impressive sound system. “We were teenagers,” he says, “so likely we...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2024 | Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Colin Hay is touring as Men at Work, but he hasn’t brought back the band that made those early ‘80s, ear-worm hits like “Down Under,” “Who Can It Be Now?” and “Overkill.” “It’s not really putting...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Michelle Cann, piano) By Montague Gammon III When Michelle Cann sits down at a Steinway in very early November to play Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, she’s reuniting with a difficult but thrilling college friend who...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III Feldman Chamber Music Society’s October 28 concert brings Ensemble 4.1, self-described as the world’s only piano windtet, to the Chrysler Museum’s Kaufman Theatre in a program of music by Mozart, Gershwin and a composer called N.H. Rice, whose...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Brendon Elliott, violin) By Montague Gammon III Heroes and prodigies fill the Francophile Virginia Symphony October 18-20 concerts. The hero in whose honor the concert was programmed with French composers is Lafayette, the young Marquis who took part in the American...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 22, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Warren Haynes’ new album is titled “Million Voices Whisper.” Photo by Shervin Lainez) By Jim Morrison “You know,” Warren Haynes says from his home in upstate New York, “Gregg Allman used to say there’s as many ways to write a song as there are...