Arts Conversations

By WHRO Public Media

Hear comments by those who make the arts so vibrant in Hampton Roads - conductors, musicians, singers, actors, teachers, visual artists. Learn about performances and get insight into the creative pro... more

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The podcast currently has 382 episodes available.

Arts Conversations episodes:

June 11, 2024 The Art of Musical Storytelling: Chris Thile and Eric Jacobsen
Jana Lee Ross speaks with Virginia Symphony Music Director Eric Jacobsen and mandolinist/composer Chris Thile about musical storytelling, and their upcoming Virginia Arts Festival performances of Thile's new work ATTENTION! A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra.
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8min
May 17, 2024 Ellington 125 at the Virginia Arts Festival
Raymond Jones speaks with Todd Stoll, who directs the Attucks Jazz Orchestra in Virginia Arts Festival's celebration of the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth, with a program that goes well beyond the greatest hits.
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8min
May 16, 2024 Interview with Jorge Parodi of Opera in Williamsburg
Raymond Jones speaks with Music Director Jorge Parodi about Opera in Williamsburg's upcoming production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman.
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8min
May 13, 2024 Interview with pianist Lara Downes
Raymond Jones speaks with pianist Lara Downes about her upcoming performances with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, which will feature a new piano concerto by local composer Adolphus Hailstork.
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9min
April 17, 2024 The Neighboring Village: a new work for the Virginia Chorale
Composer Gregory Spears speaks with Raymond Jones about his new work The Neighboring Village (inspired by a Kafka story), which was commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Virginia Chorale.
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10min
October 18, 2023 Olga Kern on the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Festival
Raymond Jones talks with pianist Olga Kern about her upcoming performances of the complete cycle of Rachmaninoff concertos with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
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13min
October 13, 2023 Eric Jacobsen on the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Festival
Dwight Davis talks with Virginia Symphony Orchestra Music Director Eric Jacobsen about the upcoming Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Festival with Olga Kern.
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8min
June 12, 2023 Interview with Julia Bullock
Wayla talks with classical singer Julia Bullock about her upcoming Virginia Arts Festival performance of Jessie Montgomery's Five Freedom Songs.
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10min
June 02, 2023 Interview with Elizabeth Blackney
Rebecca Weinstein spoke with Elizabeth Blackney, Executive Director of the Cook Foundation, about the 2023 Gloucester Arts Festival.
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9min
May 16, 2023 The Emerson Quartet and Beethoven
Dwight Davis talks with violists Lawrence Dutton
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6min

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How many episodes does Arts Conversations have?

The podcast currently has 382 episodes available.

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