Grammy Award News — The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance went to the Attacca Quartet for its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange, appearing on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. NPR’s Tom Huizenga called it “A love letter…
Opening at KMA: “Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”
This winter and spring, Knoxville will find itself at a most remarkable and important intersection of art, music, opera, literature, and cultural education. At the center of that intersection is the life and art of Beauford Delaney, an African American…
Review in Brief: KSO’s Concertmaster Series Dives Into Beethoven, Haydn, and Bates
By Alan Sherrod Since its humble beginnings in the backroom of a coffee house, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series has evolved organically, continuing to dazzle with small ensemble virtuosity, while also exploring the music’s connections to history and…
Violinist Itzhak Perlman Coming to Knoxville for a March Performance
In a continuation of last year’s Violins of Hope events, the University of Tennessee School of Music and the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School are bringing world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman to Knoxville to perform at the Tennessee Theatre. There…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: January 21, 2020
This may be the last week before the big winter crush of performances and shows that inundate us with conflicting choices. Take these events in while you can. “William Shaub and Friends”, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series concert…
Review: KSO Delivers a Memorable “Mozart and Mahler”
By Alan Sherrod Mah•ler•i•an noun – an admirer of the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, or his work In a preface to the orchestra’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”) this weekend, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra maestro…
Critical Bind: Knoxville Opera Seeking New Scenery Storage Space
Knoxville Opera Seeking Scenery Storage Space Those platforms, columns, steps, and props that are used, reused, and repurposed for Knoxville Opera’s productions have to go somewhere when they are not onstage. Unfortunately, the opera company has received notice that their…
2020 Winners: Met Opera Auditions – Middle/East Tennessee District
Auditions for the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Middle/East Tennessee District were held on Saturday, January 4 at McAfee Concert Hall at Belmont University in Nashville. The auditions yielded four winners who will advance to the Southeast Regional MONC auditions…
The Beethoven 250 Celebration Year Begins for KSO and UT School of Music
By Alan Sherrod Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, probably a day or so earlier than his recorded baptismal date of December 17, 1770. The composer’s subsequent life and work of 57 years shaped western music in ways…
The Most Popular Arts Knoxville Stories of 2019
By Alan Sherrod Last week, Arts Knoxville offered up our admittedly subjective opinions on 2019’s Most Memorable Classical Music Performances, with Andrew Swafford and Reid Ramsey tickling our interest on important 2019 films. Now, we get to reveal what readers…
