Recently WTJU spoke with Benjamin Rous the music director of the Charlottesville Symphony. Ben highlighted the upcoming 2018 concerts in September and November. Listen as Ben describes the wonderful programs that the symphony will present.
The Stable Shakers will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse on Friday night, August 23, from 8-9 for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. This incredible Country Jazz band is coming in all the way from Pennsylvania to celebrate the release of their brand new EP, so you don’t want to miss this concert! Sure you could […]
It was a busy summer for the Classics a Day team. In June, we marked African-American Music Appreciation Month. In July we celebrated national holidays in the U.S. and Canada. So that just left August to have a summer theme. For my part, I chose to choose anything except Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” In the process, […]
May I use the word “revelatory?” It most accurately describes my reaction to this release of Anton Brucker’s piano music. Bruckner’s reputation (rightly) rests on his symphonies. But those were far in the future of the young student who wrote these piano pieces. All of the works recorded were composed as student pieces and composition […]
Divine Art continues their reissue of Vyacheslav Artyomov recordings with “A Symphony of Elegies.” Artyomov’s 1977 “A Symphony of Elegies” was written during a trip to the mountains of Dilijan, Armenia. To me, the work forms a fascinating contrast to the mountain-inspired symphonies of American/Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness. Both composers eschew the standard notion of […]
Friedrich Gernsheim was a talented pianist and composer with two strikes against him. He was a contemporary of Johannes Brahms, who overshadowed him during his lifetime. And he was a German Jew, so his legacy was (temporarily) erased by the Nazis. The 21st Century seems to be kinder to Gernsheim, given the number of recent […]
New Jazz Adds – 8/13/2019 Juliana Areias – Bossa Nova Baby (Metax): ““‘Bossa Nova Baby’ is a welcome surprise of good Brazilian music, made far away. It’s bossa that plays soccer with jazz – like it has since the 60s – and scoring a goal.” (Antonio Carlos Miguel, O Globo) Back in her native Brazil, […]
