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Apr 22, 2024 · Chorus Director & James Erb Choral Chair, Richmond Symphony Chorus The Richmond Symphony announces that Dr. Richard W. Robbins has been selected as the new Chorus Director and James Erb
Apr 16, 2024 · A A A. The Richmond Symphony has appointed Richard W. Robbins as chorus director and James Erb Choral Chair of the Richmond Symphony Chorus. He joins the organization on April 16 and will prepare the chorus for the Verdi Requiem at the symphony’s season-finale concerts in June. Robbins succeeds Erin Freeman, who stepped down in 2021 to become ...
4 days ago · West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar ...
1 day ago · (death announced on this date) 24. Ron Cerrudo, 79, American golfer. Bob Cole, 90, Canadian Hall of Fame sportscaster (Hockey Night in Canada). Rajvir Singh Diler, 65, Indian politician, MP (since 2019) and Uttar Pradesh MLA (2017–2019), heart attack. Adele Faber, 96, American author. Abdul Aleem Farooqui, 76, Indian Islamic scholar.
2 days ago · Leonard Bernstein ( / ˈbɜːrnstaɪn / BURN-styne) [1] (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.
- Louis Bernstein, August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S.
Apr 11, 2024 · Trina Robbins, a groundbreaking cartoonist who expanded the visibility of women in comics through her art, writing, scholarship and advocacy over a career that spanned more than six decades, died ...
2 days ago · The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) was based on the hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 and the killing of a disabled Jewish passenger. The composer’s third opera, Doctor Atomic (2005), was the story of the scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico , who during World War II devised the first atomic bomb .
