Letter V
The Virginia Classical Music Blog
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Music for stressed ears
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Tinnitus, the persistent ringing in the ears commonly resulting from overexposure to high-volume music and other loud noises, may be treatab...
Levine's eye
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The New York Review of Books catalogues the work of its longtime caricaturist, David Levine, who died recently. In the music section, note h...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
'Fortuna' favored
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"O Fortuna," the chorus that opens and concludes Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," has been named Britain's "mo...
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Following yonder star
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Thanks to Jim Lowery for identifying this as "The Magi from the East," a woodcut by Gustav Doré.
Silent night? Not usually . . .
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Mike Gruss of The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk turns up two descendants of Josef Mohr, the composer of "Silent Night." Richard Mohr ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
A decade's best
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Many music critics are assembling tops-of-the-decade lists of performances, so I thought I should do the same. Revisiting live performances ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Symphony names resident composer
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The Richmond Symphony has appointed composer D.J. Sparr to a residency in which he will write works for the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestr...
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