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Virginia Arts Festival

Corporate sponsors include American Airlines, Bank of America, Norfolk Southern, Suntrust, The Dalis Foundation, WHRO, and other private businesses from around the region.


Ricky Ian Gordon

In 2011 he wrote the music for Rappahannock County, a staged revue of twenty one songs about the Civil War, commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival.


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Virginia Opera

The company has produced notable world and American premieres of new works, including most recently American composer Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County, a Civil War song cycle co-commissioned by Virginia Opera, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Modlin Center of the University of Richmond, and the University of Texas at Austin.