Cross steps in at Va. Symphony

Robert Cross, the Virginia Symphony's principal percussionist and executive director of the Virginia Arts Festival, has been named interim executive director of the orchestra. The Hampton Roads-based Virginia Symphony hopes to name a permanent replacement for Carla Johnson in its top administrative post early next year, David Nicholson reports in The Daily Press of Newport News:

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