Episode eighteen of WorldView features Tan Dun, a Chinese-born American composer who has become a leading figure in contemporary classical composition. Known for writing film scores to major motion pictures such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Dun has drawn influence from audiovisual experiences, Chinese theatrical performance, and modern Western classical music. […]
New Jazz & Blues – 6/28/2022 New Jazz: Lance Conrad – Home (Self-produced): “This is an homage to the end of a chapter, but it is a necessary beginning for the next. It is wistful, yet exciting – looking backwards and forwards at the same time. It encompasses both the comfort of the past and […]
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 […]
