Intimate Portraits in Chamber Music June 6-11 St. Paul’s Cathedral 127 NW Seventh St. brightmusic.org Free-$50 Titled Intimate Portraits in Chamber Music, Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble’s eighth Summer Festival concert series is all about small talk. “The idea this year was to focus on programs of music that are smaller in terms of number of personnel […]
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Jingle bell prog rock
Roaring ’round the globe for almost 20 years, Trans-Siberian Orchestra —TSO, for short — is the unlikeliest musical group to become not only one of the top concert acts ever, but a holiday tradition equal to Santa Claus himself. TSO brings this symphonic-prog/classical-metal gift to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for two shows Saturday. But, according […]
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Falco
Therefore, you’re forgiven if you’d think “Falco,” about the Austrian singer best-known for the ’80s smash “Rock Me Amadeus,” was a put-on. It’s not. And it’s also not half-bad. After a lonely, miserable childhood in which his mom calls his cheating dad “Dr. Manwhore,” Hans Hölzel (Manuel Rubey) grows up to be a musician in the […]