by Jeff Maisey | Mar 27, 2021 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Violinist and guest conductor Cho-Liang Lin) By Montague Gammon III Bach’s Brandenbug concertos are like embraces from the Mona Lisa. Some are spritely and flirtatious, some dignified, languorous and tender, some passionate, but all are sublime and wonderful. Each...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Sandler Center for the Performing Arts is going big on the Baroque music of Johann Sebastian Bach this season, and the next few weeks are certainly a highlight with three unique performances and a collaboration beer to celebrate the occasion. ...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Guest conductor Edwin Outwater) By Montague Gammon III Christmas day visits to Ella Fitzgerald’s house were a family routine for young Edwin Outwater, who will conduct the Virginia Symphony’s Brahms + Pulitzer concerts this month. Having a mother who worked for “The...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Norfolk Chamber Consort turned 50 years old this Season, making it one of the longest lived performing arts organizations in Hampton Roads. Only the 99 year old Virginia Symphony Orchestra has clear title to being older. Founded in...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 16, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Maestro JoAnn Falletta will be concluding her final full season this spring with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, capping off a year filled with accolades and memorable performances. In February, she won her third Grammy Award for a recording with 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”...
