March 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....
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Rei Hotoda conductingwith Michael Sachs, trumpetFeb. 22-23, Carpenter Theatre, Dominion Energy Centerreviewed from online stream, posted Feb. 28 Rei Hotoda, music director of California’s Fresno...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio March 4
10 a.m.-noon EST1500-1700 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Brahms: “Tragic” OvertureChicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner(Warner Classics) Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor,...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio March 11
10 a.m.-noon EDT1400-1600 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Hamish MacCunn: “The Land of the Mountain and the Flood”Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Alexander Gibson(Warner...
View ArticleRavel lost & found
Just in time for this 150th anniversary year of Maurice Ravel’s birth, French scholars have unearthed an almost forgotten work written when Ravel was a student at the Paris Conservatoire: a prelude,...
View ArticleSofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025)
Sofia Gubaidulina, the Russian composer whose works, combining modernist techniques with Christian spirituality, drew the ire of Soviet authorities, has died at 93. Born in Tatarstan, then a Soviet...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio March 18
10 a.m.-noon EDT1400-1600 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Dvořák: “Scherzo capriccioso”Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi(Decca) Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in...
View ArticleTrump & allies take over Kennedy Center
President Donald J. Trump has dismissed the Kennedy Center’s board chairman and trustees not appointed by him, and the newly configured board has fired the center’s president, Deborah Rutter, naming...
View Article‘Fragile moments of happiness’
Kirill Petrenko, the chief conductor the Berlin Philharmonic, is famously disinclined to sit for media interviews. A conversation with Malte Krasting and Tobias Müller, posted on the orchestra’s...
View ArticleLetter V Classical Radio April 1
Highbrow humor for April Fools’ Day . . . 10 a.m.-noon EDT1400-1600 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Richard Strauss: “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks”Staatskapelle...
View ArticleApril 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...
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