Letter V
The Virginia Classical Music Blog
Monday, August 31, 2009
Unhitching wagons from stars
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Facing recession-driven budgetary strains, the Minnesota Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony and other orchestras are economizing by cancelin...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sound check
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With the Carpenter Theatre, the main venue of the Richmond CenterStage performing-arts complex, set to open in two weeks, the project’s acou...
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Digital music, c. 1500
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A sequence of O's, I's and II's, which could be a musical score, has been found on a 16th-century wood medallion at Stirling Cas...
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Review: Richmond Chamber Players
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Aug. 23, Bon Air Presbyterian Church In the finale of the Richmond Chamber Players’ Interlude 2009 series, George Manahan, the former music ...
More Vivaldi
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In The New York Times, Matthew Gurewitsch recalls the old quip that Antonio Vivaldi didn't write hundreds of concertos, but the same con...
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Only in England (let's hope)
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The "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on 1,000 ukuleles at the Royal Albert Hall, Jack Malvern reports in...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Staph killed Mozart?
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Stephen Adams of Britain's Telegraph reports on the latest theory on the cause of Mozart's death on Dec. 5, 1791. Dutch researchers ...
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