The Virginia Symphony Orchestra has bestowed the title Emeritus on its concertmaster for 31 years, Vahn Armstrong.
Vahn will move sideways to occupy the third chair of the First Violin section.
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The british conductor Jonathan Nott will end his leadership next season of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. No successor has been named. But the season’s guest conductors are predominantly women – Eun Sun Kim […]
Charlie Chaplin When he died, in December, 1977, he was Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Knight of the British Empire, but he was born 136 years ago on 16th April 1889 as plain Charlie Chaplin in […]
