
Serenata
Julia Kirchner, soprano; Georg Poplutz, tenor
La Stagione Frankfurt; Michael Schneider, conductor
CPO 555300-2
Episode twenty-four of WorldView features four artists from four different nations—Sweden, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States. The composer first heard in the hour is Kevin Puts, an American modernist and polystylist. He was born in St. Louis in 1972, though he was later raised in Michigan. After studying composition at both […]
What would make Charlottesville a better community to live in? For you and people you know? This fall, WTJU is asking this core civic question through artistic expression and people’s voices. We’re creating Dreaming Charlottesville, a two-pronged community arts project: Three consecutive in-person exhibitions in WTJU’s micro-museum. (Details coming soon.) A month-long on-air audio series, […]
The Cville Jazz Congregation will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse Friday night, August 12, for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. The Cville Jazz Congregation is a collective of long-time co-conspirators in the local jazz scene. You may catch them at local bars and wineries in different configurations, ranging from duos to quintets. […]
We couldn’t let the season go by without having some kind of summer-related theme. For this August, the Classics a Day team chose to catch some rays. And, to find out how many classical composers did so with their music. Of course, any summer-related topic is fair game, too. Here are my posts for the […]
New Jazz & Blues – August 8/2/2022 New Jazz: Peck Allmond Quartet – Live at Yoshi’s 1994 (East Lawn): “Homecomings are a time of celebration and reflection, and the July 5, 1994 Bay Area return of multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond provided a good bit of both. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Peck is an […]
Film music sets the mood and helps elicit the emotional responses that make a good movie a great movie. Each week on CharlottesvilleClassical.org, The Silver Screen Soundtrack Hour takes a listen to music from the wide world of film scores. One of the our popular episodes of the SSSH was our show on the music […]