Review: Baroque Excitement from KSO Concertmaster William Shaub and Friends
Review: A Feast of Bach From the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble and the Cathedral Concert Series
By Alan Sherrod According to those who keep such records, Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach was the fourth most-performed composer worldwide in 2018. To Bachophiles, however—and I unabashedly admit to being one—there is simply no such thing as too…
Review: KSO Ensembles Heat Up the Chamber Music Scene
By Alan Sherrod For the last several years, it has felt like something of a triumph to report that Knoxville’s chamber music scene, once merely an under-attended curiosity for the most dedicated listeners, has grown by leaps and bounds,…
Review: KSO Tests New Territory with “Bohemian Rhapsodies”
As I suggested in my preview of this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts, the conversation on what constitutes the future of classical music is not a new one. While it has been a regular topic for years for national…
Review: Joshua Gersen Leads KSO in Beethoven, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky
The Beethoven Violin Concerto returned to the Tennessee Theatre this weekend for the first time since 2011, again with a guest conductor, Joshua Gersen, and this time with a remarkable young violinist, Paul Huang.
New Faces in the KSO — 2017 Edition
There was a time when American symphony orchestras had the reputation for stubbornly resisting change, entities that embraced neither innovation nor diversity in their ranks. However, the last 25 or 30 years have brought miraculous changes to the makeup of…