BY ALAN SHERROD Wrapping up its 2025-26 season of concerts in the Cathedral Concert Series this past Sunday afternoon, the Amadeus Concert Ensemble continued its exploration of the important nooks and charming crannies of music history, this time with…
Review: Marble City Opera Starts A Busy Month With ‘Josephine’
BY ALAN SHERROD Late spring has always been a busy time for Marble City Opera and this year is no exception. Last Saturday evening found them in Oak Ridge at the Grove Theatre in a performance of Tom Cipullo’s…
On Sunday: Amadeus Concert Ensemble Takes Journey Through Russian Composers
We often find ourselves talking about the special place in Knoxville history occupied by Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. On February 17, 1943, he performed his last recital as a pianist on the University of Tennessee campus, dying six…
Review: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Closes 2025-26 Season With Help From Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
BY ALAN SHERROD Sometimes, if we’re lucky, there is more to a concert than just a collection of music, more than just sounds in the air and notes on a page. That was the case for the Knoxville Symphony…
Review: Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ National Tour
BY ALAN SHERROD Almost a year into its fifth National Tour, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Musical is making an eight-performance stop in Knoxville as part of Broadway at the Tennessee Theatre. Based on the 1991 animated film…
Review: Knoxville Opera’s ‘Gianni Schicchi’ — An Ensemble Masterpiece
BY ALAN SHERROD Composer Giacomo Puccini was reportedly adamant that the three one-act operas—Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi—comprising his triptych Il Trittico be performed together. Clearly, music history had other ideas. While the works premiered as a…
Review: KSO Wraps 2025-26 Chamber Series With Sublime Ives and Copland
BY ALAN SHERROD As it turns out, one doesn’t necessarily need one of Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches to feel the nostalgia at end-of-the-season concerts. Last Sunday, Maestro Aram Demirjian and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra beautifully accomplished the…
Review: ‘The Outsiders’ National Tour
BY ALAN SHERROD Strangely, time has a way of both marching on and standing still. In a sense, that is the case with The Outsiders, the 1967 best-selling novella by S. E. Hinton about teenage gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma.…
Review: Eccentricity Abounds, Hilarity Ensues in CBT’s ‘You Can’t Take It With You’
BY ALAN SHERROD From Shakespeare to TV sitcoms, the trials and travails of eccentric families are a common theme of comic and tragic literature. One would be hard pressed, though, to find a more perfect example in the theatre…
This Week: UT Opera Theatre Presents Janacek’s ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’
For its spring production, the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre will present The Cunning Little Vixen, a three act opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. UTOT will offer four performances with double casting, Friday thru Sunday, April 24–26, at…
