After 54 years of reviewing live performances, I’m calling it quits. For two reasons: – Health: For several years, I’ve been coping with inflammatory ailments. I’m prescribed drugs that suppress my immune system, making me more vulnerable to infectious diseases. Attending public events is potentially hazardous. Until recently, I reviewed Richmond Symphony concerts from video…

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15.04.2025

Letter V Classical Radio April 15 – Letter V

10 a.m.-noon EDT1500-1700 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Handel: “Solomon” –“Swell, swell the full chorus”“May no rash intruder” (“Nightingale Chorus”)“From the censer curling rise”Monteverdi ChoirEnglish Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner(Decca) William Boyce: “Solomon” – “Softly rise, O southern breeze!”Ian Bostridge, tenorvocal ensembleThe English Concert/Bernard Labadie(Warner Classics) John Marsh: Symphony No. 10 in E flat major(“Conversation Symphony…

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22.04.2025

No radio this week – Letter V

The University of Richmond largely closed down on Monday after a snake slithered into “a central piece of equipment that safely delivers electrical power to our campus,” a UR spokesperson reports. While power is expected to be restored and university operations to resume today, I’m going to pass on broadcasting until the situation is well…

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26.04.2025

What ‘Loving,’ and loving, are all about – Letter V

Lovers struggling to prevail over those who would thwart them is a familiar trope of opera. So is the struggle against oppression. Both inform “Loving v. Virginia,” an opera by composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo receiving its premiere this weekend by Virginia Opera. The opera, the finale of the company’s 50th-anniversary season,…

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