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UVA Creative Music Ensemble, directed by Nicole Mitchell, will put on a special concert this Thursday evening. Creative Music Ensemble explores diverse expressions of music that utilizes improvisation in the form of avant garde jazz, blues, rock, pop and more.
‘Body to body, breath to breath’ Music is “a kind of family love language” for Guthrie Ramsey (right) and his daughter Bridget Ramsey (left). “One of my deepest joys is that I’ve been able to pass that along,” he says. Before the pandemic set in, Guthrie Ramsey could look forward to weekly attendance at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, where he directed the choir that included his young granddaughters. Musicianship is a family legacy for Ramsey, now the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, whose grandfather bought a piano in order to expose hi...
3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here. 6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber mu...