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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Orchestra veteran retires

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Cellist Janet Kriner, who has played with the Virginia Symphony for 45 years – one of the longest tenures of any orchestral musician in the ...

Ole Schmidt (1928-2010)

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Ole Schmidt, the conductor whose 1974 recordings of the six symphonies of Carl Nielsen helped spark an international revival of interest in ...

OJT

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Leonard Slatkin, conducting Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Metropolitan Opera, "showed up for rehearsals not fully knowing ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Encores

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The Washington Post's Anne Midgette considers encores, reycles one of Artur Schnabel's better aphorisms – "Applause is a receip...

Remember listening?

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Recalling the initial wonder of the iPod ("If you had presented me with this gadget even a decade ago, I'm pretty sure I would have...

Musical chairs in Beethoven

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Conductor Iván Fischer tried some novel placement of key musicians in performances of Beethoven's Sixth and Ninth symphonies in a March ...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Review: Johnson & Kong

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March 28, Virginia Commonwealth University When two musicians not known as drama queens essay the work of an emotionally fragile romantic co...
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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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