Join host Raymond Jones this Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. on WHRO-FM for “A Local Touch – Music with a Virginia Connection,” a program that places Virginia’s orchestras, institutions, and composers at the center of the musical conversation.
This week’s broadcast features a powerful performance by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Eric Jacobsen. Recorded live at the Sandler Center last September, this concert includes Anna Clyne’s cello concerto “Dance”, with internationally acclaimed cellist Jan Vogler, and also Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor.
In recognition of Black History Month, the program turns to historic performances rooted deeply in Virginia’s musical life. We travel back to 1968 for the Hampton University Centennial Choral Concert, directed by Roland Carter. A distinguished composer, conductor, and educator, Carter wrote “A Hampton Portrait” specifically for this celebration. The program also includes other pieces, such as Fernando Franco’s Motets, music from “Offertorio” by Nicolas Zoyensky, and Thomas Campion’s “By the Streams of Babylon.”
