Irish fiddle legend Gerry O’ Connor and singer and flute player Nuala Kennedy will stop by WTJU on Friday afternoon, November 16, at 4 to kick off Sunset Road ahead of their Blue Ridge Irish Music School concert that evening at C’Ville Coffee (1301 Harris St, Charlottesville).
For January 2019, #ClassicsaDay went with a winter theme. December’s theme, #ClassicalChristmas centered around sacred works of the season. #ClassicalWinter is about sharing secular compositions. that have a snow or winter theme. Here are my Classical Winter posts for the third week of January. Georgy Sviridov “Waltz” and “March,” from “Snow Storm” Sviridov’s 1975 work […]
Cassandra Wilson This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 years of jazz recordings, following trends, introducing major players and stylistic evolutions. As we approach the present, we face the historian’s dilemma – in more […]
This installment of Rosner’s orchestral music shows a wide range of emotional expression. The 1976 Five Ko-ans for Orchestra encapsulates the essence of Rosner’s style. The music’s mostly triadic, with chords resolving in delightfully unexpected ways. Rosner incorporated Renaissance modality and late Medieval counterpoint into his music. It’s no accident that the final movement of this work […]
New Blues News – 1/19/2019 Gaye Adegbalola – The Griot (VizzTone): Long time activist and singer Gaye Adegbalola offers her opinions and wisdom on a variety of topics from government, hypocrisy, sexism and pollution to protest, hope, judgment and freedom on this collection of mostly original songs and three from the past – Doc Pomus […]
New Jazz News – 1/15/2019 Ina Forsman – Been Meaning To Tell You (Ruf): Finnish singer/songwriter Ina Forsman offers her fourth release, her second solo. She has a huge declarative vocal style that could match many of the greats. She is not a screamer and though her goal is to be a soul and blues […]
From UVA Today, Jan 14, 2019: “It’s a really exciting time to be at UVA,” says Barbara Wilson, a professor of urban and environmental planning in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. “We’re at this moment where our university president is really thinking about how the University can be a better neighbor.” Wilson makes […]
