Virtuosity and Variety with the Ulysses Quartet

Virtuosity and Variety with the Ulysses Quartet

By Montague Gammon III The Ulysses Quartet’s December 4 concert brings to Chrysler Museum’s intimate Kaufmann Theater a deliberately eclectic mix of chamber pieces from as long ago as the 1790s and as recently as 2017. It begins with the “lively… full of sprit and...
Rocking Rachmaninoff

Rocking Rachmaninoff

By Jeff Maisey Earlier this year, the Virginia Arts Festival celebrated in grand style the 150th birthday of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff with a series of chamber music concerts featuring the internationally acclaimed Dali Quartet and violinist Tianwa Yang as...
Feast Festively on Beethoven’s Bounty

Feast Festively on Beethoven’s Bounty

(Piano soloist Orli Shaham) By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Symphony opens its 2023-24 Season with a Beethoven Festival whose bounties Music Director and concert conductor Eric Jacobsen twice likened to a “steak dinner with dessert,” a two course musical feast of...