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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Old Dominion University Professor of Music Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn have been the dynamic piano duo co-chairing the prestigious Norfolk Chamber Consort since 2009. Through their collaborative artistic vision the Consort has continued to...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III In JoAnn Falletta’s next to the last year as Music Director of our Virginia Symphony, its 2018-2019 Classics Concert Series bears the special stamp of the woman who was named, in the London based Bachtrack website’s international survey a few...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 28, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
(VSO Assistant Conductor Gonzalo Farias) By Montague Gammon III Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s final outdoor summer, free admission, Symphony by the Sea concert fires off an intercontinental musical mix of short works by and about accomplished and powerful women,...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 4, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Arts Festival’s Bernstein at 100 commemorates the centennial of the birth, and honors one part of the artistry, of Leonard Bernstein, whom Virginia Symphony Music Director JoAnn Falletta calls “probably the greatest American...
