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  • A.D. Carson performing on stage with the Charlottesville Symphony

    UVA’s Dr. A.D. Carson Debuts Orchestral Hip-Hop Project “& metaphors” with Charlottesville Symphony

    July 10, 2025

  • A rainbow background with a stack of three cartoon books in the center. Three blocks with the phrase "A & E" are on top of the books.

    A&E Book Club: Queer Fiction Set in the Past, Present and Future

    https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/06/ae-book-club-queer-fiction-set-in-the-past-present-and-future?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

  • Group of UVA students in the Hullabahoo a-capella group jumping in celebration at the top of the Rotunda.

    The Music Beat: UVA’s Hullabahoos Hit the Right Note – And Win Big

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/music-beat-uvas-hullabahoos-hit-right-note-and-win-big

  • Two trophies both in the shapes of silver microphones, sitting on a wooden table.

    WTJU Wins Six National and State Awards for Radio Excellence

    https://www.wtju.net/wtju-wins-six-national-and-state-awards-for-radio-excellence/

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Assistant Professor and composer Leah Reid looks at the camera.
Music

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest

American composer, sound artist, and educator Leah Reid has won first prize with her composition "Reverie."

https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2022-musicworks-electronic-music-composition-contest

Black Business Expo

Charlottesville Black Business Expo returns to IX Art Park on September 22

The 7th annual Charlottesville-Albemarle Black Business Expo returns to IX Art Park on Friday, September 22, 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. The event is free and open to everyone. This year’s Black Business Expo includes an exhibition of more than 30 booths operated by Black-owned businesses, three panel discussions by leading professionals, a business pitch competition with cash prizes, live music entertainment, and more.

September 12, 2023
Hip Hop Prof A.D. Carson slinging dope. (Credit: Jeremie Bailey)
Music

Hip Hop is Dope, and America is a Dopefiend Hooked on the Fruit of Its Own Brutality

I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but he makes beats, too. I’m an undergraduate at the small, private university in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois. He finished his undergraduate degree a couple years ago. We are leaving Jay’s house — he’s another friend — driving from his West Side neighborhood toward the campus at its edge. It’s remarkable, while driving through this neighborhood, what distinguishes the town from university grounds. It’s not the manicured hedges and lawns. They aren’t greener, neater, or more meticulously trimmed on one side or the other. It’s the wrought iron fencing that separates them. The gates are a portal between worlds.

https://www.spin.com/2023/08/hip-hop-is-dope-and-america-is-a-dopefiend-hooked-on-the-fruit-of-its-own-brutality/

Book Cover of “Don Giovanni” Captured Performance, Media, Myth by Richard Will
Music

The Ambivalences of ‘Don Giovanni’

Opera’s most famous libertine, who embodies freedom not only from social and political constraints but from sexuality, religion, and morality itself, has always been a disturbing figure.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/the-ambivalences-of-don-giovanni-mozart-ivo-van-hove/

Laban Carrick Hill and Theodore Taylor’s 2013 picture book When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (New York: Roaring Brook Press)
Music

Libraries and 50 Years of Hip-Hop

Not every musical genre can pinpoint the date and location of its start, but hip hop is distinctive in that way. Hip hop was born in the Bronx on August 11, 1973 when graffiti artist and b-girl Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party and had her brother Clive, who performed under the name DJ Kool Herc, play music in the recreation room of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Celebrations and other events are marking the 50th anniversary, and libraries are playing a part in ways that would have been unimaginable decades ago. What was once a fringe genre slowly gained commercial dominance and cultural legitimacy. Although “rap” and “hip hop” are sometimes used interchangeably, the former refers just to the vocal style while the latter incorporates the whole culture, which also includes DJing, break dancing, and graffiti art.

https://www.charleston-hub.com/2023/08/libraries-and-50-years-of-hip-hop/

David J. Baldwin
Music

Tuesday Evening Concert Series Selects New Executive Director

After a nationwide search, the Tuesday Evening Concert Series has announced a new executive director. He is David J. Baldwin, an experienced professional in artist management and music series development. He will begin work on September 5, following a move to Charlottesville from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Baldwin succeeds Karen Pellón, who retired June 30 from the post she held for 32 years.

August 23, 2023
John D’earth
Music

On a High Note, French Piano Virtuoso Joins Local Players for an Evening of Jazz Excellence

John D’earth knows Charlottesville music. Since settling in town in 1981, he’s come to define the local jazz scene—and beyond—with his considerable crossover into pop genres, and reach as a music teacher. So when D’earth decides to bring a French jazz pianist stateside for a local residency, culminating with a show alongside himself and the University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble at the Paramount Theater on April 28, the ears of jazz aficionados and casual music fans alike perk up.

https://www.c-ville.com/on-a-high-note

Lewis Reining
Music

Current Names WTJU's Lewis Reining a “Rising Star in Public Media”

Current, the source for news about public media, announced its first cohort of early and mid-career employees to be recognized as Rising Stars in Public Media who are making a mark on their organizations and communities. “There’s so much talent in public media,” said Current Executive Director Julie Drizin. “We wanted to recognize exceptional individuals and raise their profiles on a national level.”

https://www.wtju.net/current-names-wtjus-lewis-reining-a-rising-star-in-public-media/

Detail from “Pérégrinations D'une Comète” (Wanderings of a Comet), a fantastical illustration from the French caricaturist J.J. Grandville’s 1844 “Un Autre Monde” (Another World).
Creative Writing

A Treasured Collection of Illustration & Whimsy

A great book collection doesn’t assemble itself. It requires a person with a singular focus, a discerning eye, and a bibliophile’s unwavering devotion. Josephine Lea Iselin, a retired attorney who practiced law for 35 years and was a partner in the New York law firm of Lankenau Kovner Kurtz & Outten, specialized in intellectual property, litigation, and trusts and estates. She also assembled, over the course of many years, one of the finest collections of 19th-century French and English caricature and graphic humor in private hands, and one that would be almost impossible to duplicate today.

https://giving.virginia.edu/stories/a-treasured-collection-of-illustration-and-whimsy

VAFF Logo on a screen in a dark theatre with an audience. Photo by Jack Looney
Film

VAFF to Continue 2023 Year-round Film Series

The Virginia Film Festival will continue its popular VAFF at Violet Crown Series this summer with a pair of highly acclaimed films including director Charlotte Regan’s inventive father-daughter comedy Scrapper and Fremont, the story of a young Afghan refugee adjusting to her new land.

https://virginiafilmfestival.org/vaff-to-continue-2023-year-round-film-series/

Book Cover for QUEER BEHAVIOR: SCOTT BURTON AND PERFORMANCE ART
Visual Art

Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art by David Getsy Wins the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award

David J. Getsy (Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History, Department of Art) received the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts, given by the Dedalus Foundation, for his book 'Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art.' The award carries a $10,000 prize for its author.

https://dedalusfoundation.org/programs/fellows-recipients/recipient/queer-behavior-scott-burton-and-performance-art/

Group of Freedom House men along with founder Phil Hallen outside Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital.
Film

Multi-Emmy Award Winning Producer, Annette Banks, Visits Charlottesville’s Indie Short Film Series on July 8

The Indie Short Film Series returns to Vinegar Hill Theatre on Saturday, July 8, 7pm in the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia. This installment features 7+ short films, including the Multi-Emmy Award Winning producer and director, Annette Bank’s, FREEDOM HOUSE AMBULANCE: The First Responders. The film was produced for WQED, Pittsburgh’s PBS affiliate.

June 12, 2023

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