by Jeff Maisey | Jun 9, 2021 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Maestro JoAnn Falletta bids us farewell with Beethoven. Photo by David Beloff.) By Montague Gammon III Celebrating Beethoven by polishing off a couple of Fifths, JoAnn Falletta, formerly Music Director of our Virginia Symphony Orchestra and now appointed to the...
by Jeff Maisey | May 4, 2021 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The elegance of chamber music brings a socially distanced relief from the arts starvation of the COVID ravaged world when the Brentano Quartet performs at the Virginia Arts Festival’s new Bank Street Stage and at the Sandler Center. Since...
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...
