After last weekend’s stellar final Masterworks concert appearance by outgoing concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz performing the Brahms Violin Concerto (see the review in the Knoxville Mercury), this week’s final Concertmaster Series events (“Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends”) may have seemed a bit anticlimactic…
Review in the Mercury: ‘Departing KSO Concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz Goes Out on a High Note’
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury and online: my review of last weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts that featured departing concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz in his final appearance with the orchestra.
KSO This Week – William Shaub’s Audition and Gabriel Lefkowitz’s Finale
This week’s Masterworks concerts by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra mark yet another transition for the organization. Just as the KSO’s Aram Demirjian begins the last three programs of his first season as music director and principal conductor, the KSO’s concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz ends his six year stint with the orchestra having taken up the comparable post with the Louisville Orchestra.
Confessions of a Bachophile: Small Ensembles Keep the Love Alive
Confessions of a Bachophile is a continuation of an article series I began on Classical Journal several years ago. As personal history, it was the music of J.S. Bach that first captured my classical music imagination as a child. Today, while one…
Wed/Thurs: KSO Concertmaster Series-A Hot Ticket
If you can only make it to one of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series events this season, you should literally rush and purchase a ticket to this week’s performance at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Review in brief: ‘Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends’ offers a delicious ‘Trout’
Franz Schubert, at his best, gives the listener a feeling of euphoria, an ineffable sensation of joy that falls somewhere between contentment and exhilaration. Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” (Quintet in A Major, D. 667), heard last evening on the Knoxville Symphony…
Review: KSO Chamber Orchestra, “Mozart and Haydn”
In case there are any readers who haven’t noticed, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series at the Bijou is right up there as my favorite music series in Knoxville. The reasons for this are pretty obvious. The clarity of…
Concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz Leaving KSO After 2016-17 Season
It was probably inevitable–the career pressure on brilliantly talented classical musicians cannot be underestimated. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster, Gabriel Lefkowitz, has announced that he will be leaving the KSO for the comparable position with the Louisville Orchestra. While I’ll…
Concert View: KSO Chamber Classics–Britten, Mozart, and Dvorak
The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro James Fellenbaum performed works by Benjamin Britten, Mozart, and Dvořák on last Sunday’s Chamber Classics concert at the Bijou. Gabriel Lefkowitz was soloist in the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3.
Sunday: Gabriel Lefkowitz Plays Mozart at the Bijou
This Sunday, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series features Gabriel Lefkowitz as soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216. Conductor James Fellenbaum will also lead the Chamber Orchestra in two works for strings, Britten’s ‘Simple Symphony’ and Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for String Orchestra in E Major, Op. 22.