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 | 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 | Feb 15, 2016 | Classical, News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Dear JoAnn, It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since you and I put down roots in Hampton Roads. That’s right—I don’t know whether you remember this, but you and I both moved to Norfolk in 1991. The timing was fortuitous. When I moved here...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2015 | Classical, News, News & Views
Virginia Symphony officials today announced that JoAnn Falletta’s contract has been extended for an additional five years, and she will remain at the helm of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra through the 2020 – 21 season. Falletta, already the longest-tenured...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Symphony Orchestra marks its 25th year under the baton of JoAnn Falletta with a Classics Series that touches, in each concert, on high points of her quarter century as its Music Director. From Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, which...
