Coming up Friday night, September 24, on Offbeat Roadhouse, we bring you a special encore edition of John Bullard’s 2018 Lambeth Live (precursor to Offbeat Roadhouse). An an all new Offbeat Roadhouse returns October 1 with Reverend Freakchild.
For the month of June, Classics a Day celebrates Pride Month. And the challenge is to post works from classical composers who self-identified as other than heteronormative. There are a lot of composers to choose from — and not just in the modern era. This was a challenge that deepened my knowledge of classical music. […]
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. t’s convenient – and easy – to lump the music of Henry Mancini (1924-1994) into […]
Florence Price’s music was mostly ignored when she composed it. Now, however, the works of this African-American artist are being reevaluated. And performed. And recorded. But it almost didn’t happen at all. Many of Price’s manuscripts were considered lost after her sudden death in 1953. In 2009, her abandoned summer home was under renovation. The […]
Coming up this Saturday morning, June 25, from 8 til noon, Atlantic Weekly returns to the Charlottesville City Market. Besides the usual great music and conversation with some of the local vendors, New England band Corner House will stop by to perform. While you can of course just listen on WTJU as usual, come on out and say hello to […]
Members of Corner House will stop by WTJU this Thursday afternoon, June 23, during Folk & Beyond to go track by track through their new album, How Beautiful It’s Been. You can catch the band Friday evening over at Red Wing Roots Music Festival as well as the next morning at Atlantic Weekly’s broadcast from Charlottesville […]
New Jazz & Blues – June 21, 2022 New Jazz: Albare & Co – Freedom (Alfi): “ALBARE is the nom de guerre of Albert Dadon, a virtuoso jazz guitarist with a strong melodic sense and a wealth of global influences. Born in Morocco and raised in Israel and France, Albare first worked as a musician […]
