Letter V
The Virginia Classical Music Blog
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Review: Richmond Symphony
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Arthur Fagen conducting Nov. 14, Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage None of the nine candidates for music director of the Richmond Symp...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
The gender factor
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A musician's gender and sexual orientation don't count as much as they used to. Changing gender in mid-career, however, is another s...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Gershwin-Grofé redux
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One of the highlights of Marin Alsop's years as associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony came on Oct. 17, 1988, when she led George ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Take your time
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Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter, jazz bandleader and composer, again has postponed the premiere of his "Blues Symphony" with the At...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wilkins makes the rounds
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Thomas Wilkins, onetime associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony, currently music director of the Omaha Symphony and principal guest con...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Bird-fancier's bequest
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A charming story, with a multimillion-dollar happy ending for the Metropolitan Opera, by Daniel J. Wakin in The New York Times: http://www.n...
Facing the music, finding the money
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Michael Kaiser, president of Washington's Kennedy Center, writes for The Huffington Post that the cost structures of American symphony o...
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