Manassas Symphony is paying tribute to a famous Rock n' Roll album that used Manassas in their album art.
Ron Sharpe was a junior at Gar-Field High School in 1971 when he and his band mates were abuzz about rock and roll royalty visiting Manassas. Superstar Stephen Stills, famous already for being a part of both Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, was a Civil War buff and brought his new band to town to shoot photos for an upcoming album. The one they liked best had the band standing on the train station platform under a “Manassas” sign, and thus the band and album were named. "Manassas" is considered a rock masterpiece.
Fast-forward nearly 50 years and the Sharpe family experience came full circle when his daughter, Veronica Miller, a first violinist in the Manassas Symphony, took part in a symphonic homage to that classic album cover. For classically trained Miller, the experience brought together different parts of her world, “I grew up listening to 60s and 70s rock records with my dad, and I had the experience of seeing CSNY in concert with my parents as a teenager. Plus, my whole musical life has been centered in Old Town Manassas.”
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