by Jeff Maisey | Sep 17, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Eric and Colin Jacobsen) By Montague Gammon III One week after the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s mid-month Opening Weekend, their annual one composer Beethoven Celebration comes to Chrysler Hall for two Norfolk performances, one on Friday evening, Sept. 20, plus a...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 12, 2024 | Music, Music News
(Herbie Hancock is the greatest living jazz artist. Photo by Danny Clinch) By Jerome Langston “Hello, Jerome? “This is Herbie. “How you doing?” So starts my wonderful, fairly brief, but generous… phone chat with perhaps the greatest living jazz artist...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 10, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Composer/flutest Valerie Coleman. Photo by Kia Caldwell.) By Montague Gammon III Sandwiching a family-friendly, kid-thrilling, grownup-enthralling, brilliantly colorful new concerto for symphony and animation between a 21st Century fanfare and a 19th Century...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 5, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey “Sorry for the delay getting to the phone, I have a new, little beach house and was doing stuff around here. I’ve already been to the hardware store.” I called Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant at his home on a July morning to discuss the band’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 21, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Many of you know the classic hit songs from the band WAR — “Low Rider,” “The Cisco Kid,” “Summer,” and “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” What you may not recall is the musical crossover group from Southern California known for weaving elements funk, jazz,...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Styx returns to Virginia Beach August 20. Photo by Jason Powell) By Jeff Maisey Styx keyboardist/singer Lawrence Gowan is marking his 25th anniversary with the classic rock band known for its many FM radio hit songs like “Come Sail Away,” “Blue Collar Man,”...
