by Jeff Maisey | Mar 27, 2021 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Violinist and guest conductor Cho-Liang Lin) By Montague Gammon III Bach’s Brandenbug concertos are like embraces from the Mona Lisa. Some are spritely and flirtatious, some dignified, languorous and tender, some passionate, but all are sublime and wonderful. Each...
by Jeff Maisey | May 10, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Shakespeare’s other pair of doomed lovers – Antony and Cleopatra, the grown up ones – play out their ill fated romance alongside the Virginia Symphony in Norfolk and Newport News mid-May under the baton of VSO’s much honored, triple...
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 | 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 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...
