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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 18, 2017 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Arts Festival will present the Vienna Boys Choir’s programmed called “Christmas in Vienna” December 20 at St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg and December 21 at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center. There are four touring groups...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2017 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s NASA Langley Centennial celebration concerts soar from Newport News to Neptune and beyond, going galactic after a brief orchestral orbit. Of course, the race to space did not start a century ago, but it was in 1917,...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 15, 2017 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The duels and competition of ideas among some of America’s early political leaders are famously documented in historical written accounts, but it is perhaps even more fascinating to think of composers from the Baroque period nearly impaling the other....
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Classical, Music News, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff tenThing Presented by Virginia Arts Festival March 23 Attucks Theatre Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has won rave reviews in recital and headlining orchestra concerts from the BBC Proms to Carnegie Hall. She also leads a unique...
