by Jeff Maisey | May 20, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
( Zemlinsky Quartet by Ilona Sochorová) By Montague Gammon III A prodigy composer and piano virtuoso, a crusty old alcoholic and a middle-aged deaf musician who turned the musical world on its figurative and maybe literal ear, are all one colossus who still bestrides...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III Prime Virginia Arts Festival favorites, the British a cappella early music vocal group called The Tallis Scholars, returns to Hampton Roads for a 500th birth-year celebration — at Norfolk’s Christ and St. Lukes Episcopal Church — of the man who...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 24, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
(A 1903 photograph of French composer Gabriel Fauré.) By Montague Gammon III A double-dozen dose of seldom heard music comes to the Larchmont United Methodist Church April 26 to honor French composer Gabriel Fauré with the closing concert of the Norfolk Chamber...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2025 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III One of the most acclaimed of contemporary composers, the 2024 GRAMMY winner for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, Jessie Montgomery, who’s also a prime instrumentalist and who just happens to have a real, albeit distant, familial Norfolk...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 16, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
Flutist Demarre McGill will solo on C.P.E. Bach’s most famous flute concerto. Photo by Carlin Ma. By Montague Gammon III A genuinely out-of-this-world little symphony begins each concert in the March 28-30 series of Virginia Symphony Orchestra performances in Norfolk,...
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...
