Music

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir

KSO This Week: Guest Conductor Sameer Patel Returns – Works by Higdon, Mozart, Sibelius

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks with Guest Conductor Sameer Patel Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street…

On Friday: St. John’s Showcases Its New Pipe Organ in a Recital by Organist Scott Dettra

BY ALAN SHERROD   Inarguably, the modern pipe organ is the king of beasts of…

Review: Demirjian and the KSO Present Gems from the Past: Mozart, Farrenc, and Still

BY ALAN SHERROD   Browsing the obituaries of notable citizens in the New York Times…

Review: KSO’s “William Shaub and Friends” Visits Bartok and Schubert

BY ALAN SHERROD   “In a limpid brook the capricious trout in joyous haste darted…

Big Ears Adds a Literary Dimension of Celebrated Writers and Poets to 2022 Festival

As if one needed any more compelling reasons to jump into the swirling artistic cauldron…

Review: William Shaub and KSO Warm a Cold Evening in Barber’s Violin Concerto

BY ALAN SHERROD   There is something of a notable history to the January Masterworks…

KSO This Week: ‘Pines of Rome’, William Shaub in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series: William Shaub and the Pines of Rome Maurice Ravel: La…

The Most Popular Arts Knoxville Stories of 2021

As we keep repeating as if it wasn’t obvious, 2021 has been a year like…

Most Memorable Music Performances of 2021

BY ALAN SHERROD   Last year—2020—will forever bear an asterisk in the history books to…

Knoxville Opera Announces Big Changes To Its Artistic Management Team

BY ALAN SHERROD   In what promises to be a significant change to one of…

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