by Jeff Maisey | Apr 29, 2023 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey This year, the Virginia Arts Festival will pay homage to Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday as part of its Chamber Music Series of concerts. Front and center for most of these performances is the phenomenal, often animated pianist...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 18, 2023 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston Chatting with violinist Randall Goosby while he is navigating the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, a city that he spent most of his formative years growing up in, is rather interesting—even including the initial, slightly awkward portion…...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 25, 2023 | CD Reviews, Classical, Music, Music News
Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra “William Walton: The Complete Façades” (Naxos) “Façade” is the original title of quirky, witty poetry of Edith Sitwell read to the music of William Walton. This Naxos label CD, recorded at Virginia Wesleyan in 2021, features...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2022 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Cellist Sterling Elliott is from Newport News) By Montague Gammon III Hampton Roads natives who have gone on to excellence in some of the greatest musical venues of the world bring the achievements of two and a half centuries of musical innovators, rendered by the...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 29, 2021 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Horszowski Trio is set to dazzle a Norfolk audience.) By Montague Gammon III Early December’s Feldman Chamber Music Society concert at the Chrysler Museum’s Kaufman Theater showcases three piano trios: a mid 20th Century masterpiece by the under recognized...