music Music was a fashionable accomplishment of Elizabethan gentlemen, but Shakespeare had a special sensitivity to it, to judge by the frequent and detailed musical references in his plays. Fittingly, his works have inspired more classical compositions than any literary source but the Bible. The Charlottesville and University Symphony sampled this vast repertoire at Cabell […]
music Music was a fashionable accomplishment of Elizabethan gentlemen, but Shakespeare had a special sensitivity to it, to judge by the frequent and detailed musical references in his plays. Fittingly, his works have inspired more classical compositions than any literary source but the Bible. The Charlottesville and University Symphony sampled this vast repertoire at Cabell […]
Rose Hill and Lindsay Michie Eades move plastic tables and chairs into position in a fluorescent lit, cinderblock room deep inside the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Outside, past numerous green metal doors heavy enough to excise a finger, down labyrinthine halls that split randomly, comes the sound of voices and laughter, and the jingle of […]
Due to a reporting error, a January 30 story on County assessments ["County assessments keep soaring"] failed to put assessment increases in their temporal context: Assessment on a house in White Hall increased at a biennial rate of 41 percent in 2005, not an annual rate as implied. The same house increased at a biennial […]
Oh, what hath “Macaca” wrought? I mean, reallyâno matter how you feel about the gaffe-induced toppling of George “boot-in-mouth” Allen, I think we can now safely say that the introduction of the “Webb cam”
Dear Ace: What’s with there only being one High Definition TV channel in Charlottesville? I’ve got this kick-ass TV, and I don’t have anything to watch on it!—Cuckoo Channel Cuckoo: Ace knows how you feel. Why bother even watching “Flavor of Love” if you can’t make out every last pore on Flava Flav’s nose? And […]
Shows at a place like McGuffey Art Center are usually about refinement. The current oneâa collection of works by inmates at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jailâspeaks more to release.
dance He burst onto the scene as a tap prodigy 21 years ago, a snap-crackle-pop, step-ball-change 12-year-old star. Eventually he earned a Tony, got dubbed, somewhat homophonically, “the savior of tap” (he had by then surpassed classical steps, bringing tap to a new edge), and exemplified the complexity of physics as his fleet-footed moves eluded […]
music Rock ’n’ roll at its purest is supposed to be loud, raw and (occasionally) a little scary, which explains why so many of the form’s finest practitioners have been unpleasant people with a few screws loose. The three members of the Hoboken, New Jersey-based Yo La Tengo, who played to a sold-out Starr Hill […]
stage Because most theater-goers will not be immediately familiar with the discrepancies between the three printed versions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet—the first quarto (1603), second quarto (1604) and folio (1623)—Ralph Alan Cohen, executive director of Staunton’s American Shakespeare Center, runs the risk of alienating his audience by staging the arcane and rarely produced first quarto […]
UVA President John T. Casteen III gave his yearly State of the University speech last week to a crowd gathered in Old Cabell Hall on February 7. Here is the abridged version (with apologies to the original author). UVA President John Casteen hit many of the same points he’s hit in the past State of […]