JoAnn Falletta is marking her 20th anniversary as music director of the Hampton Roads-based Virginia Symphony – one of
the longest tenures among conductors currently at work with major or mid-sized U.S. orchestras. (The 57-year-old Falletta also been music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic since 1999.)Teresa Annas of The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) profiles the maestra, on- and offstage:
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/03/vso-conductor-knows-sweet-sound-success