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”...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 11, 2018 | Classical, News, News & Views
Acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta, together with producer Tim Handley, have been nominated for the prestigious 2019 GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Compendium for the recording of Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems Of Life; Glacier;...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III From icy climes of dancing flakes and rime, to Roman Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Virginia Symphony closes out 2018 with a pair of concerts that feature some of classical music’s best loved Holiday and winter themed compositions. VSO Music...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Franks are coming! The Franks are coming! And if (to further paraphrase George M. Cohan’s World War I song “Over There”) French drums are not “rum-tumming everywhere” in the mid-October Virginia Symphony Boléro concert, the 4,050 snare drum...
