John Eaton

Will Hess said he couldn't really describe the play. Then he did a pretty good job of talking his way through the goal that lifted Kecoughtan's boys soccer team into the Eastern Region quarterfinal. Hess picked up a loose ball about 30 yards from the...

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When it comes to tirelessly proselytizing for new music while keeping an audience seriously entertained, nobody does it better than the CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. The ever-frisky CUBE-sters presented the third and final concert of their South...

Composer John Eaton formed the local Pocket Opera Players in 1993 to present music-theater pieces that would have an egalitarian appeal. Since then, he's created more than a dozen shows for the chamber troupe. He calls these hourlong productions "pocket...

After a decade together, the all-women Orion Ensemble has matured into a committed, fairly cohesive group that revels in its unusual instrumental mix. Though works for violin, viola, cello, clarinet and piano are scarce, those for any of the subsets...

Many composers in recent decades have turned to more intimate forms of theater than traditional grand opera, usually as much for economic reasons as for artistic ones. Concertgoers have also observed composers assembling their own troupes of performers...