At the core of the University and Charlottesville’s famously rich musical culture lies the student organization Indieheads — a home for local artists and all lovers of indie music.
ARTS ON THE HILL: Beethoven Up Close with Members of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia and Music Director Benjamin Rous • Tuesday, February 14 • 5-6pm (doors open at 4:30pm) • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery
Something about WTJU appeals to the radio station’s DJs. Really appeals to them. Such that some have spent decades hosting weekly shows on the station, licensed to the University of Virginia and on the air since 1957. In October, the station’s longest-volunteering DJ hosted his last regular show. Dave Rogers, known through his WTJU show and across the regional music community as “Professor Bebop,” ended a run of nearly 50 years as leader of a jazz-centric weekly show.
Assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global South A.D. Carson’s University of Virginia courses provide students a musical and cultural experience enriched by creativity, connections and curiosity.
Reflecting on the time he spent working in artistic isolation as a court musician for Hungary’s Esterházy family, Joseph Haydn once remarked: “I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.” In many ways, the same is true for award-winning composer and Eleanor Shea Professor of Music, Matthew Burtner. Born and raised in Alaska, Burtner knows what it means to live remotely. Growing up in Nuiqsut, an Arctic city accessible only by airplane or ice road, he spent much of his young life helping his family prepare adequate food, heat, and clothing.
Molly Joyce was in sixth grade when she started composing music and experimenting with musical notation software. “It was like a game,” she said, “combining the music in my head with the software and playing it back.” She could change the notes, the timing, and make other special effects.
In his program called “The Music Paradigm,” maestro Roger Nierenberg aims to help organizations improve their work by exposing their leaders and employees to the dynamic that exists between a conductor and orchestra musicians.
Written by Asst. Spanish Prof. Fernando Valverde and directed by Spanish Prof. Fernando Operé, “Flamenco y Exilio” wove Antonio Machado’s story with flamenco performances from singer Juan Pinilla and guitarist David Caro, both of whom traveled to Charlottesville from Granada, Spain for the performance.
Funded by U.Va. Arts, the Rap Lab at U.Va. is a collaborative hip-hop space where all are welcome.
In Sonic Spheres, the opening show of the Charlottesville Symphony’s 48th season, eight orchestra members will trade their French horns for harmonicas to imitate what celestial vibrations might sound like for a performance of “Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).”
Finding My Voice takes audiences on a remarkable behind-the-scenes journey of Kathleen Turner’s extensive and well-documented career. Peppered with songs from the great American songbook, Kathleen Turner croons hits including “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, “I’d Rather Be Sailing”, “On the Street Where You Live”, “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, showcasing her trademark husky voice.
Arts Administration, part of The Department of Art at the University of Virginia, welcomes Professor Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble for an Artist-in-Residence program from November 14-17, 2022, including concerts at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and the Dome Room of the Rotunda.
