By Steven Mark, smark@staradvertiser.com (Hawaii Star Advertiser)
The Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra’s performances this weekend will conjure as much sight as it does sound. Its “Pops” concert on Friday evening features movie music, with guest conductor Stuart Chafetz presenting “Hooray for Hollywood.”
But even...
By Timothy Gaylard, Special to The Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Symphony, conducted by David Stewart Wiley, on Sunday opened the 2014-15 Masterworks season for an audience of about 1,200 at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre.
The program of Beethoven, Barber and Mahler, titled “In Nature’s Realm,” featured the...
By Tim Gaylard, Special to The Roanoke Times
Under the direction of David Stewart Wiley, the Roanoke Symphony’s Pops season concluded on Friday with a celebration of the great musical theater masterpieces of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Before a crowd of about 2,000 people in the Salem Civic Center, the concert...
By Timothy Gaylard, Special to The Roanoke Times
The Roanoke Symphony’s Masterworks season continued on Sunday afternoon with a program of Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky conducted by David Stewart Wiley.
A crowd of about 830 people filled Shaftman Hall at Jefferson Center. Featured on the second...
By Mike Allen | Mike.Allen@roanoke.com| 981-3236 (The Roanoke Times)
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra conductor David Stewart Wiley’s outsized persona and distinctive mane of hair will beam into living rooms across Southwest Virginia this coming Monday.
In addition, teenagers will demonstrate their mastery of...
David Stewart Wiley conducts the orchestra on the steps of the Virginia State Capitol.
David Stewart Wiley conducts the orchestra on the steps of the Virginia State Capitol.
By Mike Allen mike.allen@roanoke.com 981-3236 (The Roanoke Times)
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have a momentous...
Of the countless symphony concerts I have attended in my lifetime, most have faded from memory. Behind the Silence, performed March 15 at the DuPont Chapel on the Hollins University campus, is one I will never forget. Sponsored in part by the Roanoke Jewish Foundation, this Holocaust Remembrance was...
