To bring its 56th season to a close, the Oratorio Society of Virginia has revived a 2020 program that had to be canceled when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. This time, the music is all by Ludwig van Beethoven, and the occasion is the 200th anniversary of one of the works.
John D'earth (Music) is being recognized by the Jazz Journalists Association as a "2024 Jazz Hero" in a national program that celebrates a select group of "advocates who have had significant impact in their local communities." D'earth appeared on WTJU's "Jazz at 100 Now!" for an April 23 program dedicated to his extensive catalog of music recorded over the last 50 years : 2024 Jazz Hero John D'earth
A.D. Carson was recently featured in an American Council of Learned Societies interview as one of two finalists in the Multimodal Category for the ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award for his 2020 mixtap/e/ssay, i used to love to dream (University of Michigan Press): ACLS Open Access Book Prize Finalist Interviews: A.D. Carson and Francesca Coppa
"Reef Generations" by Matthew Burtner is a data artwork about oyster reef restoration on the Virginia eastern shore. Using data collected by University of Virginia environmental scientists working at the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR), the piece synthesizes an audio-visual computer-generated environment that explores the marvelous underwater generation of oyster reefs and their function as a living seawall attenuating wave motion and storm surge from rising sea levels.
JoVia Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, she won the Best Black Female Percussionist of the Year through the Black Women in Jazz Awards and received the 3Arts Siragusa Foundation Artist Award in 2011 for her work as an educator. JoVia sits on the executive board of Chicago's AACM as Secretary.
As part of UVA Library’s ongoing series, the University of Virginia’s Music Library in Old Cabell Hall will be full of the sounds of jazz this Friday.
Country music star Sam Hunt wrapped up his “Summer on the Outskirts” tour at the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday night.
Founded in 1972, Black Voices is one of the oldest Black organizations on Grounds.
Marshall, joined by student and community musicians, perform the movie score during the viewing – just as audiences would have heard when the films were first screened.
The self-proclaimed “Old Dorms Band” came to be in the fall of 2023 after the band members found each other through a group chat for University Records — a student-run club that brings musicians together and hosts shows for them to perform.
Over the past decade, conservative commentator and podcaster Ben Shapiro has made a living telling his followers that rap isn’t music.
Rita Dove was on sabbatical from the University of Virginia English department when Richard Danielpour emailed the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. The Grammy Award-winning composer wanted to discuss collaborating on A Standing Witness, a cycle of songs that covers 50 years of American history, with original music set to poems as lyrics. The project was no small task. And Dove says that, at first glance, it seemed outside her wheelhouse.
