Violists From Around the State Come Together to Perform at UVA
Violists from all over the state gathered at Old Cabell Hall for the annual Violapalooza.
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7 Poetry Collections About the Complexities of Black Womanhood
All of these poetry collections endeavor to answer the question: What does it mean to be both Black and a Woman? All of the answers are different—Black womanhood is multifaceted and finding a safe passage through it is the challenge of a lifetime.
Nicki Minaj’s Response To Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Hiss’ Was A Miss
Nicki Minaj’s “Big Foot” — a diss track she dropped this week in her escalating feud with fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion — has fallen flat.
ARTS OPPORTUNITY • 2024 Chorus Auditions for Charlottesville Opera
2024 Chorus Auditions: Saturday, March 2 at the Charlottesville Band Building at 1119 Fifth Street SW, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Charlottesville Opera Adult and Children's Chorus members are crucial parts of every season! This season, our shows are 'The Music Man' and 'L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)'. 'The Elixir of Love' is sung in Italian. Deadline to sign up is Friday, March 1.
The Poetry of Love
This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define “love”.
UVA Professors Will Turn the Movement of Rivers into Music
Matthew Burtner was raised in Alaska where he was fascinated by glaciers. As a professional musician, he was inspired to compose a symphony around the sounds of those massive mountains of ice that are now melting.
New Works Festival
UVA Drama’s New Works Festival treats audiences to a varied collection of short works, ranging from drama to farce, that explore everything from workplace woes to matters of the heart.
The Music Beat: Dave Matthews Band Nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Charlottesville’s native son is in the running to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
He Made a Phone That Plays Birdsong in 2016. Why is It Just Now Catching Eyes?
Eight years ago, after winning a local art-in-place grant, Schulman retrofitted an old-school payphone to play the chirps, tweets and calls (get it?) of birds local to Takoma Park, Maryland, the Washington suburb he calls home.
This Student Fashion Organization Will Leave You ‘CRAVE-ing’ More
Capturing the attention of fashion fanatics across the globe, New York’s famed Fashion Week serves as a showcase for designers’ newest styles and trends. A little closer to home, a University of Virginia student organization is gearing up for a fashion show of its own.
Virginia Theatre Festival to Celebrate 50th Anniversary Year
The Virginia Theatre Festival Season to Kick Off With 50 Years and Counting: a Musical Revue, Directed by Longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel Followed by All-time Classic Musical Little Shop of Horrors and Frenetic, Farcical Take on Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.
UVA Honors Faculty for Research and Scholarship: David Getsy wins in UVA's Excellence in Arts and Humanities Award
UVA administrators honored faculty members, including David Getsy (Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History), for their outstanding research and scholarship at the fifth annual Research Achievement Awards event, held earlier this month.