Lorelei Ensemble is a nine-member vocal ensemble that has become known for its inventive programs and its collaborations with noted music organizations and a host of today’s leading composers. Founded in Boston in 2007 and led by artistic director Beth…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Harlem String Quartet, Flying Anvil Theatre, More Free Events at Big Ears
UTKSOM: Ready for the World Music Series The UT School of Music’s Ready for the World Music Series will be back to live performances this Sunday in a program that features the Grammy-winning Harlem String Quartet. The program will offer works…
KSO This Week: Connecting Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Ethel Smyth
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series Aram Demirjian, conductor— Guest artist Tanya Gabrielian Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street Thursday and Friday, March 17 and 18, 7:30 PM Tickets and Information Dame Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain’s Mate: Overture Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Piano…
Big Ears Festival Announces Free Concerts — And A Parade
It probably came as no surprise to many when the Big Ears Festival 2022 announced that it had reached a SOLD OUT status on all passes for the four day Festival March 24-27. After all, the scourge of Covid had…
Review: Morisseau’s ‘Blood at the Root’ in Clarence Brown Lab Theatre
BY ALAN SHERROD “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root…” “Strange Fruit” – Abel Meeropol, recorded by Billie Holiday (1939) Dominique Morisseau’s 2014 play Blood at the Root takes…
Review: Knoxville Opera Returns with the Devilish Spectacle of ‘Mefistofele’
BY ALAN SHERROD After an absence of over two years from the performing stage, Knoxville Opera returned to life on Friday evening with a production of Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele. Those two years have no doubt seemed like an eternity…
First Friday of March: On Stage and On the Walls
Theatre, Music, and Opera UT Symphony Orchestra: Concertos and Classics This concert will feature the winners of the annual SOM Concerto Competition. Livestream information can be found at https://music.utk.edu/events/live.php. Sunday, March 6 at 4:00pm Alumni Memorial Building, James R. Cox Auditorium…
Review in Brief: KSO Offers Beautiful Bach; Coincidences Abound in Shostakovich
BY ALAN SHERROD As Maestro Aram Demirjian indicated in his preface of Sunday afternoon’s Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra concert, the programming for it had been done over a year in advance. So, it was both a grand and somber…
This Week: Knoxville Opera Returns to the Stage with Boito’s ‘Mefistofele’
BY ALAN SHERROD In the opera world of the 1860s, more than the mere Alps separated Italy from Germany. The battle between the influences of Giuseppe Verdi in the Italian opera world and the supporters of Richard Wagner and…
Review: Marble City Opera Premieres Important Theatre in ‘I Can’t Breathe’
BY ALAN SHERROD It would be impossible to find a more relevant topic for contemporary theatre than that found in the Marble City Opera production of I Can’t Breathe, a new opera that received its world premiere on Thursday…
