April calendar
Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available....
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio April 8
Keyboards galore – harpsichord, tangent piano, fortepiano and modern piano, in music ranging from Haydn and Beethoven to Poulenc and Martinů. 10 a.m.-noon EDT1400-1600 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of...
View Article(Not quite) dead White male composer
The US composer Alvin Lucier, who died in 2021, continues to make music, after a fashion. An Australian foursome – three artists and a neuroscientist – have “revivified” Lucier’s brain, whose neural...
View ArticleTime’s up for live reviews
After 54 years of reviewing live performances, I’m calling it quits. For two reasons: – Health: For several years, I’ve been coping with inflammatory ailments. I’m prescribed drugs that suppress my...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio April 15
10 a.m.-noon EDT1500-1700 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Handel: “Solomon” –“Swell, swell the full chorus”“May no rash intruder” (“Nightingale Chorus”)“From the censer...
View ArticleWhat ‘Loving,’ and loving, are all about
Lovers struggling to prevail over those who would thwart them is a familiar trope of opera. So is the struggle against oppression. Both inform “Loving v. Virginia,” an opera by composer Damien Geter...
View ArticleThe Kennedy Center diverges
Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post’s music critic, weighs in on the takeover of the Kennedy Center by President Trump and his allies, and the resulting prospect of “a clear divergence from the...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio April 29
10 a.m.-noon EDT1400-1600 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sinfonia à 8 concertanti in A minor, ZWV 189Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der...
View ArticleMay calendar
Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available....
View ArticleRadio show moves to new time & duration
I’ll be taking a week off as Letter V Classical Radio moves to a new time and a three-hour format for the summer. Beginning May 11, the show will air on Sundays 7 to 10 p.m. EDT (2300-0200 UTC) on the...
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