Author Truman Capote called Andy Warhol "a sphinx without a riddle," but what did he know? Half a century after Warhol caused an art-world sensation with his renderings of Campbell's soup cans and a newly dead Marilyn Monroe, the meaning, merit and mentality of the quintessential Pop artist are still being debated.

NORFOLK
In the classical music world, it's a monster. Huge and complicated and a bear to pull off.
Mahler's 8th.
Part of it is the numbers.
During a rehearsal this week at Chrysler Hall some 280 singers clomped up a steep riser, 10 rows deep, behind a Virginia Symphony Orchestra swollen to 120 players.

She's a Broadway baby, even if television does pay the bills.

NORFOLK After nearly 25 years, the Governor's School for the Arts is finally close to bringing most of its programs under one roof. The school, long housed in different locations, will announce a $2.5 million fundraising campaign today to help cover the costs of renovating and furnishing a downtown building to operate most of its programs for the region's gifted young artists.

NEWPORT NEWS

The Virginia Living Museum is scheduled to reopen this morning after a storm Tuesday night sent flood waters inside.  “It totally caught us off guard,” said Deputy Executive Director Fred Farris.

The Hurrah Players will kick off its 29th season with Disney's Aladdin. The local children's theater company has also been selected to present the first regional production of Disney's Tarzan next March, according to a press release. 

NORFOLK
 
Virginia Opera will present the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel” next season, in May 2013, during the Virginia Arts Festival.
 

By Paul Sayegh VIRGINIA BEACH

VIRGINIA BEACH Less than two years ago, in June 2010, Andrew Gonzalez felt honored to have a solo in the spring gala concert for this region's Governor's School for the Arts orchestra. On Sunday the 20-year-old violist returns to perform on that same stage - the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts - alongside one of the world's greatest violinists, Itzhak Perlman.

NORFOLK
The Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a concert today that includes the premiere of a work commissioned for the group.
The 7 p.m. concert at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center at Norfolk State University will feature James Hosay's Symphony for Youth Orchestra, or "The Rivers." The piece honors four Virginia rivers.