by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Symphony Orchestra marks its 25th year under the baton of JoAnn Falletta with a Classics Series that touches, in each concert, on high points of her quarter century as its Music Director. From Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, which...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 28, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Elizabeth Blachman This past September, I attended High Holy Day services for the last time at the last Jewish synagogue in Portsmouth. Rabbi David Goldstein presided over Yom Kippur services, and then Gomley Chesed Synagogue closed its doors, ending more than a...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 28, 2015 | Classical, Music
By Montague Gammon III A promised surprise, a quartet on the rise, a married pair, top Hampton Roads musicians and a well known group of Early Music specialists highlight the Virginia Art Festival’s five morning Coffee Concerts this spring. Coffee Concert I, May 7,...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 17, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
Music, mystery and excitement in a glass filled castle By Montague Gammon III When JoAnn Falletta calls any musical event “one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been a part of, in my entire life of making music,” it’s time to take notice. That’s how she...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 16, 2015 | Classical
By Montague Gammon III Pianist Olga Kern loves to share what she loves, and what she loves is music. The sheer unbridled joy she takes in making music and sharing it with her “friends and her fans,” comes through in the champagne-worthy effervescence with which...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 1, 2014 | Classical
By Montague Gammon III Golden Gloves fighter at fourteen, underwater warrior a little later, Gandhi follower since early adulthood, double Emmy winning composer, conductor and music director; former boxer and World War 2 frogman John Duffy just might be Greater...
