By Alan Sherrod One doesn’t really expect Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’ Sonata to lead off a recital program, yet there it was, brimming with heat to start the afternoon. László Váradi, the first pianist in this year’s Young Pianist Series recitals, clearly had…
Theatre Knoxville Downtown Begins Its Second Act And Revives a Lonely Corner
By Alan Sherrod Urban renewal—if one can still use that term today with a straight face—has not been kind to 800 South Central Street. A mere two blocks east of the bustle of Gay Street, and on the now…
Sunday, Jan 27: ‘Young Pianist Series’ Opens 40th Season with László Váradi
The Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series opens its 40th season of recitals with Hungarian pianist László Váradi. This first of three recitals takes place in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center on the University of Tennessee campus on Sunday, January 27, at 2:30 PM.
Review: The Present and the Future Collide in KSO’s Majestic “New World”
By Alan Sherrod A collision of the present and the future occurred on the stage of the Tennessee Theatre this weekend—an experience that was noticeably transformative for both performers and audience. The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and its Knoxville Symphony…
Recital Report: UT’s Ready For the World – Americana
By Alan Sherrod Sunday afternoon saw the next installment of the University of Tennessee’s Ready for the World Music Series, an offering of three programs per year intended to illuminate the music and culture of a variety of regions…
Review: “The Music of John Williams” – Fellenbaum and the KSO Summon the Force
By Alan Sherrod It is said that everyone has at least one awakening moment in their life when music and culture collide at a particular time and place. For those in their pre-teen years, such a music/culture moment is…
Review: Virtuosity and Warm Reflection Highlight January’s Concertmaster Series Concert
By Alan Sherrod If Tchaikovsky’s ballets, symphonies, and operas tell us anything, it is that the composer gravitated to the richness and complexity of orchestral textures as a main vehicle for musical creation. Chamber music seems to have had…
Sunday: Ready For The World Music Series – Americana
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all…
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,…
2019 Winners: Met Opera Auditions – Middle/East Tennessee District
The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the Middle/East Tennessee District were held on Saturday, January 5, with three winners being chosen.
