Conductor Lawrence Loh led the West Virginia Symphony in a graphic performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E Major, Saturday night at the Clay Center’s Maier Performance Hall.

Fans of ABBA came out in force to the Clay Center Friday night for the Charleston Light Opera Guild’s production of “Mamma Mia!”

Percussion soloist Lisa Pegher made a sensational debut with the West Virginia Symphony in 2012 with her performance of Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto. Saturday night with the orchestra, she burnished her reputation with a stunning performance of Richard Danielpour’s Percussion Conc…

This weekend, the Charleston Light Opera Guild strayed from their normal fare of glitz and glam to delve into a more complex and gut-wrenching portion of American history with “Ragtime.” Still culturally poignant today, in an America of closed borders and maligned kneeling athletes, “Ragtime…

Coal has always been king in West Virginia. The fossil fuel has been powering the nation and the world from the mid-18th century’s Industrial Revolution to the present day.

The Charleston Light Opera Guild transformed Charleston’s Clay Center into a magical underwater escape Friday evening as it presented “The Little Mermaid.”

Can a father-daughter music team fit the beginnings of a successful career into the daughter’s last summer before college?

Charleston Light Opera Guild’s rendition of “The Full Monty” is quite the treat.

In November 2017, I leapt out of my desk in the Gazette-Mail newsroom, ran to Bill Lynch’s desk, and breathlessly asked him if I could review the upcoming Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concert.

The Clay Center’s “Sound Checks: Party on the Patio” with Parsonsfield and Tony Harrah and the Fly-Over States was scheduled to take place in the venue’s outdoor Sculpture Garden Friday night. However, due to concerns over rain, it was relocated inside to the auditorium’s stage.

Premiere performances have been relatively rare with the West Virginia Symphony in its series of symphonic concerts. After he arrived in 2001, former conductor Grant Cooper led premieres of several of his works. He included works by John Beall, Matt Jackfert and me over the years. Both Beall…

An English accent might be difficult for any Charleston actor or actress to pull off, but the cast of the Charleston Light Opera Guild’s production of “My Fair Lady” handles the challenge quite well.

The Charleston Light Opera Guild warmed the audience’s hearts and tickled its funny bones Friday night as it presented the delightfully odd yet immediately endearing play “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”