Members of the BRIMS Trad Ensemble will stop by WTJU this Saturday morning, March 25, around 10:30 (edt) for a visit to Atlantic Weekly II. Later that evening as part of its annual fundraiser, the Blue Ridge Irish Music School will be putting on an Irish Night at the (C’Ville) Coffee House. (Details)
Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792) is best-known today for his horn concerti. Mozart is said to have modeled his own after Rosetti’s During his lifetime, though, it was Rosetti’s symphonies that brought him fame. It’s easy to hear why in this new release from CPO. The two symphonies on this release stylistically fall between those of Haydn […]
Mary Gordon Hall will stop by WTJU this Tuesday afternoon, July 25, around 4:30 for a visit in advance of her concert that Friday evening at C’Ville Coffee. Also performing that night as part of the Songmaker Series will be Bahlmann Abbot. Mary Gordon Hall grew up in Richmond, singing with her mother as they […]
#USclassics One of the ongoing Twitter hashtag groups I participate with is #ClassicsaDay. For July 2017, I used the theme #USclassics, and presented an entire month of American composers with examples of their music. Twitter only allows 140 characters, pretty much limiting my tweets to the composer’s name, the title of the work, links, and […]
Artie Shaw In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon were the draft of 1940 that eventually conscripted 10 million men, making it increasingly difficult to field top […]
Disembodied voices — seemingly from heaven, or elsewhere — feature prominently in the old annals of sacred life. Hungarian Cardinal Peter Pazmany tells us in his 1609 The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola that an assassin, armed with a sword, stood at Ignatius’ door ready to strike when a mysterious voice called out “What […]
The Neumeyer Consort perform some of Telemann’s most colorful ouverture-suites — and sound like they had a lot of fun in the process. Percussion is heard extensively in the Ouverture-Suite “La Bizarre” — as it is in all the suites. It’s not something one normally hears in baroque music, and I found it quite refreshing. […]
