by Jeff Maisey | Apr 4, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Arts Festival’s Bernstein at 100 commemorates the centennial of the birth, and honors one part of the artistry, of Leonard Bernstein, whom Virginia Symphony Music Director JoAnn Falletta calls “probably the greatest American...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
Compiled by Staff Peter Bernstein April 7 Attucks Theatre www.sevenvenues.com Ask a jazz pro the guitarist they’d ask to sit in on a set, and at the top of the dream team is Peter Bernstein. A part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989, he has played on...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 18, 2017 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Arts Festival will present the Vienna Boys Choir’s programmed called “Christmas in Vienna” December 20 at St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg and December 21 at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center. There are four touring groups...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 7, 2017 | Concert Previews, Concert Reviews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison When Jae Sinnett first was asked if he’d be interested in playing a Christmas show, he said sure. A day later, he thought, “What did I get myself into?” He realized that if the straightforward jazz quartet from his latest disc,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 27, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts Halfway through a 20-minute phone interview—about eight of them spent talking about politics—Nellie McKay stopped herself and asked: “How much of the human body is water? Is it 70 percent? … Well, even more of a percentage of our show is music....
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 22, 2017 | Music, Music News
By Michael Curry Chris Jacobson, the owner of the venerable Victorian Station in Hampton and a fiddler in the band Mason Brown and the Shiners, always dreamed of a venue that was home for local musicians, a spot like The Bluebird in Nashville or The Continental in...
