Letter V

The Virginia Classical Music Blog

Saturday, May 31, 2014

$148,000 to plant poppies

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In the ongoing skirmishing between the Metropolitan Opera and its employee unions over labor costs, the company has “pulled back the curtain...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Verboten no more

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Linz, Austria, which Adolf Hitler claimed as his hometown (his birthplace was Braunau am Inn, a town on the Austrian-Bavarian border), celeb...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Freeman takes VCU-symphony post

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Erin R. Freeman, outgoing associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony, has been appointed to a new joint position as director of choral act...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Letter V Classical Radio this week

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May 29 noon-4 p.m. EDT 1600-2000 UTC/GMT WDCE, University of Richmond 90.1 FM www.wdce.org Glinka: “Jota aragonesa” BBC Ph...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Clueless tour guides

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The Dallas Morning News’ Scott Cantrell writes that young American conductors, while technically adept and attractive to audiences, too ofte...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Letter V Classical Radio this week

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May 22 noon-4 p.m. EDT 1600-2000 UTC/GMT WDCE, University of Richmond 90.1 FM www.wdce.org Mason Bates: “Mothership” Alex Bu...

San Diego Opera comes back to life

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Good news on the troubled-arts-troupe front: The San Diego Opera, whose board decided in March to shut down the company, has been revived af...
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Clarke Bustard
A music critic and cultural writer based in Richmond, VA, Bustard has written for the Richmond Times-Dispatch since 1971. He also has contributed to Style Weekly in Richmond, Symphony and Chamber Music magazines, the webzine NewMusicBox and other publications. Bustard is a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music writing, as well as awards from state and national press associations.
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