Hollywood director? Check. Spanking-new book, music and lyrics? Check. Popular local performers? Check.

Mary Miss to visit

Ensemble Chanterelle will join soprano Megan Sharp and organist Jonathan Schakel at 8 tonight in the sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church as part of the Westminster Organ Concert Series. The ensemble includes soprano Sally Sanford, Cathy Liddell on theorbo and Brent Wissick on viola da gamba.

There’s a different way to observe Women’s History Month this year.

The University of Virginia New Music Ensemble brings in guests for tonight’s concert — the UVa Clarinet Quartet, the improvisational trio Pinko Communoids, violist Johanna Beaver, oboist Aaron Hill, flutist Mary Anne Kidwell and percussionist Michael Schutz.

The inaugural Virginia World Music Festival will present seven ensembles playing music from around the globe from noon until about 8 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.

Local audience members have met their match — or at least their matchmaker.

Missy Raines jumped off the front porch without a safety net. Since then, she’s been soaring.

Ann Rabson won’t be sitting at home feeling lonely after Saffire — the Uppity Blues Women finishes up its farewell tour.

Over the years, American listeners have embraced Cuban music.

For music fans, the New World remains full of discoveries.

So, you consider yourself pretty knowledgeable about Charlottesville’s music scene.

Fridays After 5 will start its new season April 17 with the music of Groove Train.

Fathers will get their turn at the upcoming Live and Learn Parent Conference and Resource Fair.

Judith Leemann returns to UVa

Even before the Virginia Festival of the Book held its press conference to announce the 2009 lineup, Nancy Damon started talking to me about Debbie Wiener.

Some innkeepers leave a mint on your pillow. Others send you home with a fascinating inspiration for a play.

Fans of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famed “Kreutzer Sonata” might not know that violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer, to whom the work was

There’s a musical marking called a repeat sign — a colon followed by two vertical bars — that can send musicians right back to the beginning of their work. Sometimes, that’s not where they’d rather be.

Back in 1971, when Ted Neeley first began performing the role of Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the musical often drew long lines of protesters. People feared that a secular approach to the life of Christ would end up setting blasphemy to music.

For many Nelson County residents who experienced the wrath of Hurricane Camille during the night of Aug. 19-20, 1969, it was a disaster of unmitigated horror.

As they close in on five decades of performing together, Paddy Moloney and his band mates in the Chieftains remain excited about what they do.

The Harlem Globetrotters like to get the details just right. Some players have to have their wristbands or headbands on just so before they hit the court, for instance.

Things definitely go in cycles for the Leipzig String Quartet — CD cycles, that is. When the quartet isn’t performing concerts, the musicians are likely to be in the studio recording.

Horton Foote died Wednesday.

Odes of March

The Russian National Ballet Theatre will bring stars of the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets to the Paramount Theater at 7 this evening for a performance of “Cinderella.”

Richmond Ballet will return to Piedmont Virginia Community College to share contemporary works from its 25th-anniversary season.

This tour isn’t songwriter Keri Noble’s first, but she’s treating it as if it is.

There’s nothing like checking your inbox in the neuroscience department and finding a photo of Zoolander.