BY ALAN SHERROD Thanks to the remarkable resurgent interest in vinyl LPs, I can still use the simile “sounding like a broken record” and yet have most readers understand the reference. In this case, I freely and happily admit…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Inner Voices String Quartet, Knoxville Opera, and Big Ears
Knoxville Opera Knoxville Opera’s An Afternoon of Opera at Ijams series has certainly proved popular—so popular, in fact, that the limited attendance events have been sold out. The series features popular selections from opera, Broadway, movies, and operetta. Knoxville Opera…
Review: ‘Nero Monologues’ from Sarah Toth and Marble City Opera
By Alan Sherrod The often curious intersection of art and history was discovered in South Knoxville last evening, as Marble City Opera offered its latest—a production created and performed by soprano Sarah Toth—Nero Monologues. The work, currently being staged…
This Weekend: Marble City Opera’s ‘Nero Monologues’ at Candoro Marble
By Alan Sherrod If you have attended any of Marble City Opera’s previous productions, you undoubtedly know that the company lives for performances in unusual and intriguing spaces that immerse the audience in an alternative music-theatre experience. Along the…
Friday: Inner Voices String Quartet at Modern Studio
Inner Voices String Quartet returns this Friday evening with a new and different program: III.
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…
Friday Evening: Inner Voices String Quartet, ‘Barber at the Hair Salon’
It is a very positive sign when new classical music ensembles form and reach out to find new audiences. Inner Voice String Quartet is just such an ensemble—only a year old—and one that seeks to explore alternative venues and different listening experiences.
Their performance this week is at the GEO Hair Lab, Friday evening at 8 PM