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...
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 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The fast rising, internationally acclaimed Trio Zimbalist comes to Norfolk for the Feldman Chamber Music Society’s 2024-25 Season opening concert at the Chrysler Museum’s intimate Kaufman Theater September 23. This threesome of piano, violin and...
