by VSO Marketing | Nov 13, 2017 | News & Reviews
For her tireless work as a volunteer for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Fran Pedersen received the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads’ top award for support of the arts. Pedersen started playing bass with the symphony while she was a student at Maury High... by VSO Marketing | Nov 13, 2017 | News & Reviews
JoAnn Falletta was embarrassed. It was the mid-1980s, still early in the orchestral conductor’s career, and she’d taken a position as music director of the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco. The mission for the group was to play music written by women.... by VSO Marketing | Nov 9, 2017 | News & Reviews
Almost 500 years to the exact date that Martin Luther posted, as tradition suggests, his 95 theses on the doors of the All Saints’ Church, Wittenberg, thus starting the Reformation, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra chose as its musical theme that very reference Friday... by VSO Marketing | Nov 6, 2017 | News & Reviews
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra plans to honor Ludwig van Beethoven and Samuel Barber with its latest effort Nov. 9 and 11 in Williamsburg and Virginia Beach. The performance features Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 2,” written between 1801 and 1802 when the composer’s... by VSO Marketing | Nov 6, 2017 | News & Reviews
Published on September 21, 2017 Victor Wooten, Grammy award-winning bassist and a graduate of Denbigh High School, will perform with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra this weekend at three venues in Hampton Roads. A founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones,...
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