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Virginia Arts Festival

The 2008 Virginia Festival of the Arts, which will take place from April 18 to May 26 throughout Hampton Roads, also will feature the return of several festival favorites: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, radio host Garrison Keillor and the Virginia International Tattoo. As in past seasons, the festival will group several events in one city to create a mini-festival over a long weekend. During May 14-17, the Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News will host a chamber music concert, "From the Top" radio program with host Christopher O'Riley, banjo player Bela Fleck and the Noche Flamenca dance troupe. A Williamsburg weekend May 23-25 features the Martha Graham Dance Company, Count...  Show more »
The 2008 Virginia Festival of the Arts, which will take place from April 18 to May 26 throughout Hampton Roads, also will feature the return of several festival favorites: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, radio host Garrison Keillor and the Virginia International Tattoo. As in past seasons, the festival will group several events in one city to create a mini-festival over a long weekend. During May 14-17, the Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News will host a chamber music concert, "From the Top" radio program with host Christopher O'Riley, banjo player Bela Fleck and the Noche Flamenca dance troupe. A Williamsburg weekend May 23-25 features the Martha Graham Dance Company, Count Basie Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony in an all-Tchaikovsky festival finale concert. For families, the festival is presenting the Spirit of Uganda children's choir April 20 at Willett Hall in Portsmouth and The Peking Acrobats May 9-10 at the Sandler Center. For the first time in several years, the festival is offering a musical theater piece, Kurt Weill's "Lost in the Stars" first presented in 1949.  « Show less

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    Nov 17, 2008 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  1. Va. Symphony needs support from Hampton Roads community

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    Battling a worsening economy that has affected its funding on many levels, the Virginia Symphony is asking for renewed support from a broad segment of the Hampton Roads community. "The economy situation has been a tsunami for us," Board Chairman F. Blair...

    Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Hampton Roads, Music, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Music Industry

    2. Nov 22, 2008 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  2. Not by bread alone

    The Foodbank, the United Way and many other organizations that depend on public contributions are feeling the sting of the recession. Donors, feeling or fearing the pinch, are cutting back. And the painful irony is that just when funding to deliver...

    Tags: Economic Policy, Conservation, Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Arts

    3. Feb 14, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Harris Theater helps fund 'Romeo and Juliet' ballet

    Tribune critic
    The Harris Theater is joining a consortium of international arts venues to fund a $1.1 million commission for choreographer Mark Morris' new "Romeo and Juliet," set to Sergei Prokofiev's long-lost original score. The new version of the classic, featuring...

    Tags: Arts, Mark Morris, Culture, Colleges and Universities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    4. Apr 9, 2008 |Story| Daily Press

  4. Check out the complete Virginia Arts Festival schedule

    Daily Press
    Here is a complete Virginia Arts Festival schedule. Tickets can be purchased at www.vafest.org or by calling 671-8100. Virginia International Tattoo Sneak Peaks. Noon April 14. A pipe band from the Tattoo will perform a half-hour show. Tidewater...

    Tags: Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Mary T Christian, Theater, Festive Event, Arts

    5. Apr 3, 2007 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  5. David's picks on spring performing arts

    The Jamestown 2007 celebration and the 11th annual Virginia Arts Festival provide plenty of artistic highs in the coming months. They add to the other colorful spring palette of performances we've got going on around here. Here are five things I'm looking forward to.
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    The Jamestown 2007 celebration and the 11th annual Virginia Arts Festival provide plenty of artistic highs in the coming months. They add to the other colorful spring palette of performances we've got going on around here. Here are five things I'm looking...

    Tags: Carnegie Hall, Hampton Roads, Classical Music, John Corigliano, Bobby McFerrin

    6. Apr 5, 2007 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  6. Music inspired by Jamestown, and more

    Picture this: Watery light filtering through stained-glass windows. Shimmering cornfields depicted in Colonial drawings. Ships sailing up the James River.
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    Picture this: Watery light filtering through stained-glass windows. Shimmering cornfields depicted in Colonial drawings. Ships sailing up the James River. Listen carefully, and you might hear these images in musical compositions. All served as...

    Tags: Helen Frankenthaler, Walt Whitman, Hampton Roads, John Corigliano, Festive Event

    7. Mar 13, 2006 |Story| Virginia Gazette

  7. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble: "Make music, not war"

    Gazette Staff Writer
    The Virginia Arts Festival presents Yo-Yo Ma and the "Silk Road Ensemble," in concert at Chrysler Hall, Feb. 25. "Make music, not war" was easily the idealized subtext of the eagerly anticipated appearance of celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his "Silk...

    Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Festive Event, Lou Harrison, John Lennon, Yo-Yo Ma

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