BY ALAN SHERROD For a brief instant, the pose caught me by surprise but seemed unmistakable. Pianist Alessio Bax had just brought the house down in a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
Review: UT Opera Theatre — Menotti’s ‘The Medium’ & Puccini’s ‘Suor Angelica’
BY ALAN SHERROD Matching singers to roles in a university opera program is certainly no small feat. A part of the natural attrition of a university program is a constantly changing educational dynamic. The number of student arrivals doesn’t…
KSO Announces Conductor Change for November Masterworks Concert
KSO Music Director Aram Demirjian is handing the baton over to KSO Resident Conductor James Fellenbaum for this week’s Masterworks concerts. The reason? On Saturday, November 11, Maestro Demirjian and his wife Caraline welcomed a daughter into their family. Congratulations!…
KSO This Week and Next: Ives, Rachmaninoff Set the Stage for “A Classical Christmas”
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks This Week: “Bax Plays Rachmaninoff” • Bernstein: Overture to Candide • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor (Alessio Bax, piano) • Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 Thursday and Friday, November 16 and 17,…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Film Fest Knox, UT Opera Theatre, Momentum Dance Lab
This weekend really forces one to make some uncomfortable choices in the Knoxville arts and music scene. Despite the pain of having to choose among competing interests, this is probably a good thing, all things considered. Film Fest Knox Kicks…
This Week: UT Opera Theatre Offers ‘The Medium’ and ‘Suor Angelica’ at the Bijou
BY ALAN SHERROD In my November, 2011 Metro Pulse spotlight of the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre’s production of two short operas, Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica, I went out on a bit of a…
Amadeus Chamber Ensemble: Remainder of 2023-24 Season Revealed
In September, the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble opened its 2023-24 season with Sacred Rossini, a concert of selections from the Italian master’s Stabat Mater and Messa Solenne. For a full house audience as part of the Cathedral Concert Series at Sacred…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Openings and Re-Openings
Knoxville Museum of Art Opens Reimagined Higher Ground After months of enjoying a re-imagining and re-installation process, Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, the permanent exhibition of the Knoxville Museum of Art, will reopen to…
Review: CBT’s ‘The Moors’ — Deliciously Dark and Atmospheric
BY ALAN SHERROD A strange, old Victorian house on the edge of the bleak, disorienting moors of Yorkshire… characters that suggest the Brontë sisters and their dissolute brother, Branwell…and, of course, the arrival of a new governess with a…
Review: Bruch’s ‘Scottish Fantasy’ Comes Alive with Stefan Jackiw and KSO – A Sensational Beethoven ‘Pastoral’
BY ALAN SHERROD Concerts have an intriguing way of taking on a life and meaning of their own. That meaning may be obvious and intentional, or personal and ineffable. That is the joy—and burden—of those that program concerts: the…
