Monica Worth will stop by WTJU this Tuesday afternoon, May 17, around 12:30 to chat with Gary Funston about the We Play for Ukraine jazz benefit at the Whiskey Jar on Wednesday evening, May 18. When young jazz students near the besieged city of Mariupol sent a plea to support the people of Ukraine, a […]

Joe Varaksa of the Blue Ridge Mountains Rotary Club will stop by WTJU this Friday morning, May 20, around 10 to chat about the annual Ramblin’ Rabbit Run. The 5k race will take place Saturday morning, May 28, at PVCC. The Blue Ridge Mountains Rotary Club hosts an annual Ramblin Rabbit Run Race to raise money […]

New Jazz & Blues – 5/15/2022 New Jazz: Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9 – Manifesto Of Henryisms (Ropeadope): “Steven Bernstein first saw the late, great New Orleans pianist Henry Butler play in 1984. “He was genius-level brilliant, man,” he says, still marveling. “I couldn’t believe there was a guy who could sound like the […]

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.  This week we’ll be listening to music from American composer Michael Kamen (1948-2003). Kamen left […]

Known for her lengthy career in composition and efforts to support underrepresented communities, Barbara Harbach has become a prominent figure in modern American classical music. She has written works for symphonies, musicals, film, ballet, solo artists and choirs, composing a symphony as recently as 2017.  Barbara Harbach was born in Pennsylvania in 1946. She studied […]

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. This week we’ll take an in-depth listen to one of John Williams’ finest scores, Raiders […]