Symphony of Voices, a new Knoxville-based professional choral ensemble, presents their inaugural concert this Sunday afternoon at First United Methodist Church, 3316 Kingston Pike, at 2:30 PM. One sign of the advancement of an art and music scene in a…
KSO This Week: Pianist Joyce Yang, “Brahms and Rachmaninoff”
There have been some notable anniversaries in the music world of 2018, among them Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, for which there have been global celebrations of his music. It was also composer Charles Gounod’s 200th birthday, and the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Gustav Holst’s The Planets. And—although you probably won’t find it on any national lists—2018 was the 75th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s last public performance in Knoxville, on February 17, 1943.
The KSO’s opening Masterworks concert of the season features works by Jonathan Leshnoff, the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Rachmaninoff, and Brahms Symphony No. 1.
Review: An Auspicious Start to Chamber Music Season
The distinction of being the first chamber music recital of the 2018-19 season in Knoxville goes to violinist Miroslav Hristov of the University of Tennessee School of Music, along with four notable guests, for their “An Evening of Chamber Music” recital this past Sunday evening. Their performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, along with works by Reinhold Glière and Beethoven, was their second of the weekend—the first being on Friday evening at East Tennessee State University where two members of the quintet, violist David Kováč and cellist Sean Hawthorne, are on the music faculty. The quintet also included violinist Yu-Fang Chen of Ball State University and cellist Daniel Veis of Park University in Missouri.
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 10
A few things to plan on this week— • The Carpetbag Theatre presents Ce Nitram Sacul at the Flying Anvil Theatre, Thursday – Saturday, September 13-15, at 7:30 PM; Sunday, September 16, at 4:00 PM Tickets and Information “…a play about…
Review: Hammer Ensemble’s ‘Lockdown’ – Gun Violence as a Symptom of Cultural Division
By Alan Sherrod At the beginning of the Hammer Ensemble’s Lockdown at the Flying Anvil Theatre, the ensemble of seven actors don metaphorical animal skins and masks suggesting early human beings, then depict a struggle for intercultural power in…
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 3
The fall arts season has traditionally started with Labor Day, so here we are. This week, add in First Friday and you have a wide range of enlightenments and diversions. Here are a few highlights. THEATRE The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
Review: CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’ – The Best of Dazzling Possibilities
By Alan Sherrod For the last year or so, productions of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta Candide have been popping up all over the globe, from Europe to South America, thanks in large part to the encouragement and celebration surrounding…
Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27
One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a few more days. All will be different next week—patches of urban concrete and suburban grass, accustomed to basking in the early morning sun, may find…
Preview: Collaboration Key To CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’
By Alan Sherrod It’s a bit ironic that Voltaire’s Candide, a novella that satirizes the 18th Century philosophy of optimism and its inevitable disillusionment, has required plenty of optimism and perseverance from those that have sought to turn it…
Arts & Culture Alliance Announces 9th Year of Penny4Arts
Exposure to the arts in childhood should not be a luxury, for its potential to inspire and educate is incalculable. That ideal is the basis for Penny4Arts, a program of the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and organizations…
