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Arts Conversations — 366 episodes
Interview with Chris Thile
Eric Jacobsen on Finding Peace at Potsdam
A New Album from the Virginia Symphony and Gil Shaham
JoAnn Falletta Celebrates Adolphus Hailstork
Celebrating Adolphus Hailstork
Interview with Joshua Bell
Interview with Barnaby Smith of VOCES8
A Night at the Symphony with Laufey: Interview with conductor Ross Jamie Collins
Interview with Rob Fisher
Interview with Edgar Meyer, Tessa Lark, and Joshua Roman
Interview with Samantha Ege
Vienna Boys' Choir
The Art of Musical Storytelling: Chris Thile and Eric Jacobsen
Ellington 125 at the Virginia Arts Festival
Interview with Jorge Parodi of Opera in Williamsburg
Interview with pianist Lara Downes
The Neighboring Village: a new work for the Virginia Chorale
Olga Kern on the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Festival
Eric Jacobsen on the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Festival
Interview with Julia Bullock
Interview with Elizabeth Blackney
The Emerson Quartet and Beethoven
Rachmaninoff at 150
Interview with Rob Fisher
Interview with violinist Randall Goosby
Interview with Chuck Woodward, Artistic Director of the Virginia Chorale
Interview with Floriana Frassetto of Mummenschanz
Conversation with Virginia Symphony Conductor Eric Jacobsen
Interview with Rob Fisher
Interview with Scott Jackson
Interview with Olga Kern
Interview with Chuck Woodward
Interview with conductor Ormsby Wilkins
Interview with Nadia and Christine DiGiallonardo
Interview with Norman Elton
Interview with Truly Matthews of Virginia MOCA
Interview with Opera in Williamsburg
Interview with the team behind the New Musicals Lab
Interview with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra's New Music Director, Eric Jacobsen
The Virginia International Tattoo Returns
Olga Kern speaks about performing Beethoven with the Virginia Symphony
Interview with conductor Gerard Schwarz
Dwight Davis speaks with the Virginia Arts Festival's Olga Kern
Interview with the Stars of Trouble in Tahiti
Interview with Ryan Speedo Green
Interview with Karla Donehew Perez of the Catalyst Quartet
Interview with Rebecca Gilmore and Daniel Lau
Interview with Anna Feucht
Interview with Lee Jordan-Anders
Interview with Debra Cross and Barbara Chapman
Interview with Todd Holcomb
Interview with New Commonwealth Quartet
Interview with Malcolm J. Merriweather
Interview with conductor James Blachly
Interview with Adam Turner of Virginia Opera
Local Brewery Delivers New Product
Virginia Opera Preview: Verdi's Aida
From Norfolk to the Met: Tenor Frederick Ballentine
Opera Preview
Interview with Andrew Greene of the Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra
Interview with guitarist Raphael Feuillatre
Interview with Virginia Musical Theatre: A Grand Night for Singing
Interview with the Norfolk Chamber Consort: Traversing the Americas
Preview of Virginia Opera's "Il Postino" with Glen Winters
Curiosity and Kindness: A Conversation with Caroline Shaw
Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Generic Theater
Preview of Virginia Opera's "Tosca" with Glen Winters
Interview with Rachel Ordaz and Amanda Gates of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Interview with the Virginia Stage Company Public Works Team
Ambrosia Quartet Cellist Rebecca Gilmore
Interview with the Inspire Collaborative About Their Upcoming Production of Bronte by Polly Teale
Interview with Anna Sterrett of Saltworks Opera
Dwight Davis speaks with Bill Barclay, director of Virginia Arts Festival’s “Antony and Cleopatra”
Interview with JoAnn Falletta
Interview with violinist Domenic Salerni of the Dali Quartet
Interview with composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery
Interview with Tawnie Olson and Lori Laitman
Interview with Cantus Member Paul Scholtz
Dwight Davis talks with the new Chamber Music Director for the Virginia Arts Festival, Olga Kern, about performing chamber concerts with violinist Tasmin Little and cellist Nina Kotova.
Violinist Tasmin Little
Interview with Music Director Rob Fisher About His Upcoming Concert with Kristin Chenoweth and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Chris Botti Interview
Lucy Worsley Interview
Richard Alston Dance
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Madame Butterfly” with Glenn Winters
Dwight Davis Talks to Anthony Kearns, one of the Irish Tenors, about his concert in Williamsburg
Virginia Opera preview of “The Elixir of Love” with Glenn Winters.
Virginia Opera's "Short Works Sampler"
Hope Mihalap – A Remembrance
The King's Singers return to Hampton Roads
Arts Undercurrent: A Conversation with Core Theatre Ensemble
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Don Giovanni” with Glenn Winters
Interview with Symphonicity's Daniel Boothe
"Street Scene"
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Street Scene” with Glenn Winters
Gonzalo Farias
The Young Singers Project “Twitterlieder”
Bernstein at 100!
Ode to Spring
Rachele Gilmore Interview
Virginia Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Preview of Virginia Opera's Lucia di Lammermoor with Glen Winters
Preview of Virginia Opera's "Midsummer Night's Dream" with Glenn Winters.
Ode to Hope
Virginia Opera preview: The Girl of the Golden West
Samson and Delilah
Dimmed Footlights
HipHarp: Deborah Henson-Conant
- From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - Canadian Baroque Orchestra Les Violons du Roy (the Violins of the King)
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Red Priest performs Handel’s Messiah and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge –Norfolk Chamber Consort's "Two Rivals" Concert
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge –Duo Vela At Virginia Wesleyan College
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge –Tchaikovsky No. 5 Virginia Symphony Orchestra
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Arts Festival's Swan Lake.
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Arts Festival soprano Kathleen Battle at the Wilder Center.
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Symphony Orchestra Folklore and Literary Heritage
Raymond Jones speaks with Sergey Bogza, one of the candidates for conductor of Symphonicity.
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - VSO Verdi’s Requiem
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - Puccini's Turandot
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - Venus In Fur
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Puccini’s Turandot
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - Pictures As A French Exhibition
Songbook concert - From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - The Great American Songbook with the Virginia Chorale
Allan Blank concert - From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - The Lighter Side of Allan Blank
Virginia Opera’s Der Freischutz (The Magic Marksman)
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Weber’s Der Freischutz (The Magic Marksman)
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony and Aaron Copland.
The Virginia Choral Society
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – VSC’s I Sing the Rising Sea
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Tidewater Guitar Quartet
Virginia Opera preview with Glen Winters
“Two Worlds, One Stage”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony’s Mahler 5th
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera's The Flying Dutchman
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – NCC's Shakespeare 400 Years After
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Falletta & Friends
Conductor Emeritus David Kunkel
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Yo Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman
A Voyage on the High Seas with Mal Vincent
Mal Vincent and Bugs Bunny
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Stage Company’s Grounded
Sharon Isbin-Raymond Jones speaks with guitarist Sharon Isbin about her performance at Hampton university.
Mal Vincent Tribute to Nancy Reagan
Dwight Davis speaks with Virginia Chorale Director Chuck Woodward about Handel's springtime Messiah
Mal Vincent and Williamsburg Film Festival
Mal Vincent and Oscar
Mal Vincent Tribute to Ruth Brown
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s Romeo and Juliet
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Bon Appetit! With the Norfolk Chamber Consort
Beauty and the Beast
Mal Vincent dicuss OJ Simpson
Mal Vincent dicuss Fank Sinatra's 100th
Avalon
Mal Vincent’s Review of Mercy Street
Natalie Cole
Mal Vincent Review of Christmas Movies
Vienna Boy’s Choir
Mal Vincent review Eartha Kitt
Mal Vincent review of Mark Ruffalo
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge- Chrysler Museum’s Glass
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge- Richard Moriarty
Mal Vincent and Ragtime
The Virginia Symphony with Zuill Bailey
Mal Vincent Review of Spectre
Virginia Stage Company ArThu,r Miller’s All My Sons
Mal Vincent review of Truth
La Boheme preview
Opening Night with Sarah Chang
Birth of an Answer at the Attucks
The Virginia Chorale - A la Francaise
Mal Vincent Review of The Walk
Virginia Stage Company’s Peter and the Star Catcher
Mal Vincent with Big Stone Gap
Mal Vincent and Peter Pan
WHRV and WHRO became two separate stations 25th Anniversary
Mal Vincent with Melvin van Peebles
Mal Vincent Review
Virginia Opera preview with Glen Winters Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld
Sheryl Crow
Generic Theatre
Mal Vincent Preview of Idina Menzel
Mal Vincent Funny Face
Mal Vincent Ace In The Hole
Mal Vincent It Happened One Night
Mal Vincent Sun Also Rises
Mal Vincent Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Long Hot Summer
Mal Vincent Beach Boys Movie
The Virginia Arts Festival-Cantus
Generic Theater’s production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman
The Virginia Arts Festival Audra McDonald
NARO Gone With the Wind
Mal Vincent’s Review Madding Crowd
Jackie Evancho
Weaver Tribute
Opera In Williamsburg
Renee Fleming & Olga Kern
Robert Duvall
Ma West
Mal Shrew
Virginia Opera Preview With Glenn Winters – Verdi’s “La Traviata
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Norfolk Chamber Consort - Ave atque Vale
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s “Salome”
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – “Salome” by Richard Strauss
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Chorale: Sing We Noel
The RichMon,d Ballet production of “The Nutcracker”.
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Sara Buechner and the Virginia Symphony
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Norfolk Chamber Consort
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony with pianist Prisca Benoit
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s “HMS Pinafore”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Richmond Ballet’s “Carmina Burana”
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Gilbert & Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Light at the Hermitage
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s Sweeney Todd
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Chorale
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony and Emanuel Ax
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Stage Company’s “K2”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - The Norfolk Chamber Consort
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Steven Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - Dance Theater of Harlem
Violinist Joshua Bell speaks with Anthony McSpadden about his performance for the VAF
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M. D. Ridge – LOV’s “La Boheme”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M. D. Ridge – Virginia Stage Company’s “Frankie and Johnny…”
Raymond Jones reviews the Virginia Arts Festival’s Tallis Scholars performance.
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s “Carmen”
Virginia Arts Festival – Conductor Gianandrea Noseda talks with Raymond Jones
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Chorale: “Path of Miracles”
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Bizet’s “Carmen”
Virginia Opera preview with Glenn Winters – Ariadne auf Naxos
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Chorale: A Season of Joy
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Norfolk Chamber Consort
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony: Viva Italia!
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Cantus: A Place for Us
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s “The Magic Flute”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – VSC’s “The Woman in Black”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – LOV: Broadway and Beyond
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Boston Camerata
Virginia Opera Preview: Mozart, the Masons and “The Magic Flute”
Virginia Opera’s Glenn Winters previews Verdi’s “Falstaff”
TOI’s “Cosi fan Tutte”
Shakespeare at “The Plot”
Virginia Arts Festival Duffy Institute
The Rite of Spring Centennial
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - The Virginia Symphony – night and seasonal music
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge - The Wren Masters
Schola Canortum A Capella XVII
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Of Mice and Men
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Rose Ensemble at VWC
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Mozart Requiem by the Virginia Symphony
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Rebel
Carousel
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – VAF “Coppelia”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – VSC - “The Odd Couple”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Virginia Opera’s “The Marriage of Figaro”
Joann Falletta talks with Dwight Davis about “Falletta and Fri,ends”
Dr. Glenn Winters from Virginia Opera previews Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony – Schubert’s 9th
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony – A U.S. premiere
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – LOV’s Romeo and Juliet
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Whipping Man
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Norfolk Chamber Consort
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Va. Opera’s “Streetcar…”
A Streetcar Named Desire
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Los Romeros
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Chorale
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Symphony
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Concerto Koln
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Die Fledermaus
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Colin Carr
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – “The Comfort Team”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – Hampton Arts: “Pride and Prejudice”
Die Fledermaus
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – The Virginia Chorale: “In the Beginning”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – “Fences”
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge – “The Pearl Fishers”
Virginia Opera preview – “The Pearl Fishers”
The Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Pictures at an Exhibition
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge:Carmen
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge:Masterworks in the Making
Symphony of a Thousand
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Renee Fleming
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Tchaikovsky Finale
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Matt Haimovitz
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: TCGS presents Thibault Cauvin
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Virginia Opera’s Mikado
Preview of "The Mikado"
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: The Virginia Symphony
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Death of a Salesman
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: From Cupid’s Bow
From the Other Side of the Footlights wit M.D. Ridge: The Virginia Symphony with SiMon, Lapointe
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: The St. Olaf Choir
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Trio Voronesz
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Orphee
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Black Pearl Sings
Lyric Opera Virginia: “The King and I”
From the Other Side of the Footlights wit M.D. Ridge: Les Ballets Trockedero de Mon,te Carlo
From the Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: Gil Shaham and the Virginia Symphony
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Orphee”
The Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: The King and I
Seeing Colors at the Muscarelle Museum
The Other Side of the Footlights, with M.D. Ridge: Mozart’s Sister
Virginia Symphony guest conductor, Robert Franz
The Other Side of the Footlights with M.D. Ridge: A Christmas Carol
The Other Side of the Footlights, with M.D. Ridge: Virginia Opera’s “Hansel and Gretel”
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Hansel and Gretel”
Preview of Virginia Opera’s “Aida”
Opera in the Park
The MorMon, Tabernacle Choir
Lyric Opera Virginia
Richard Danielpour discusses his world premiere
The Virginia Arts festival Flying Proms
Rappahannock County
Joann Falletta 20th Anniversary Program
Preview of Madama Butterfly
O Be Joyful English Cathedral Anthems
Opera Preview for The Valkyrie
Union and Liberty
Scott Williamson on Alleluia!
Virginia Opera’s Cosi fan Tutte
A Discussion with Lowell Liebermann
Virginia Chorale Director Scott Williamson
Pianist Katheryn Stott
An Evening of Music by Dan Locklair
Virginia Arts Festival: An evening of American song with Kelli O’Hara and Rob Fisher
Virginia Arts Festival: Grand Finale with the Virginia Symphony
Virginia Arts Festival: Alisa Weilerstein
Virginia Arts Festival: Orion Quartet
Schola Cantorum
Virginia Chorale
Symphonicity - Goldfingers and the Silver Screen
Virginia International Tattoo
Virginia Arts Festival
Cantus
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
Organist Isabelle Demers plays at the Virginia Arts Festival
Porgy and Bess
Lisa Relaford Coston - In Memorium
Virginia Opera Preview
Colorful music by Arial Ramirez
The Virginia Symphony celebrates its 90th anniversary
It simply would not be Christmas without Tchaikovsky’s classic confection, “The Nutcracker.”
The American Boychoir performs at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach
The Virginia Chorale’s holiday concert offers music for Christmas.
The Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach features Mendelssohn for Two.
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present German Requiem
The Virginia Chorale Society sings Gilbert and Sullivan
The Virginia Chorale sings in the Seasons
Williamsburg Symphonia opens its new season
The Virginia Symphony Plays Led Zeppelin
The Virginia Chorale Society
The Virginia Chorale
Andre Michele Schub
SiMon, Morrison
Kikuei Ikeda
Joseph Kalichstein
Ellen Taafe Zwillich
Opera Preview
Preview of Virginia Chorale’s A Romantic Celebration
Preview of Virginia Opera’s Il Trovatore
JoAnn Falletta Plays Vivaldi
Benedetti plays Mendelssohn
James Galway returns!
Shakespeare in Love