WTJU is delighted to welcome John Doyle, Eamon O’Leary, and Mick McAuley, with special guest Duncan Wickel on fiddle, to our studios this Thursday afternoon, September 8, to kick off Folk & Beyond at 4 (edt). Later that evening Blue Ridge Irish Music School will present this powerhouse quartet in concert at The Haven (details).
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.
Paul Chihara composes for films. Film scores must support the narrative and communicate emotion. And it must do it in a way that instantly connects with the viewer. That skill set works well for Chihara in the classical world, too. His compositions have a transparency to them that draws the listener in. The surface may […]
Mozart wrote, “Clementi is a good clavicembalist and with this, there is no more to say. He plays well with his right hand, his strong point is the passages in thirds. For the rest he has no sentiment or taste, – in a word he is simply a mechanicus.” I’m not sure I entirely agree […]
New Blues & Soul News – 9/17/2018 New Blues Releases: Amanda Fish – Free (Vizztone): “Amanda Fish began as a singer songwriter in late 2012, refining her original material as a solo act for 2 years before she formed her band in early 2014, a Roots Rock and Soul project featuring Amanda’s signature ‘from-the-gut’ vocals locked into […]
New Jazz Adds – 9/17/2018 Dennis Llewellyn Day – Bossa, Blues And Ballads (DDMG): Veteran singer and composer Dennis Llewellyn Day offers a variety of songs and styles in celebration of his own singing career and the performers he admired, some of whom he had performed with over the years. Songs included are standards like […]
Back on June 26, 2017 I presented a Historic Radio Special on The Early Music Show, consisting of ‘early’ recordings of early music, beginning with the barely audible spectacle of a Handel oratorio captured on wax cylinders in 1888 to a formative solo disc of countertenor Alfred Deller singing a Thomas Morley tune, made around […]
