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The Virginia Classical Music Blog

Monday, June 29, 2009

Review: Centenary Festival Choir & Orchestra

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Stanley M. Baker conducting June 28, Centenary United Methodist Church, Richmond Where does Renaissance music end and baroque music begin? T...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Prehistoric music

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Archaeologists at Tübingen University unveil a 35,000-year-old flute made of bird bone, the oldest instrument yet found in Europe, from a si...

Philharmonic history online

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The New York Philharmonic has launched an online archive listing concerts, artists and programming back to its founding in 1842: http://hist...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Biber time

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Centenary Classics, the summer showcase of baroque music at Richmond's Centenary United Methodist Church, this year focuses on the 17th-...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Richmond Symphony runs deficit

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The Richmond Symphony projects a deficit of $146,706 on an operating budget of $4.75 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, the orchestr...

Arts education stuck in neutral?

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The U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress in Arts finds that arts and music education in the nation...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Battle of the bands

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British music lovers, and possibly some innocent bystanders, are whiling away the summer observing supporters of the Royal Liverpool Philhar...
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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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