By Alan Sherrod With apologies to Henry David Thoreau — do people lead lives of quiet comic desperation? That seems to be the vastly entertaining and charming statement of Flying Anvil Theatre’s current production, 8 x 10, a collection of…
UT’s ‘7 Days in America’ Selected for 2018 Immigration Film Festival
Documentary storytelling with the aim of providing non-profit organizations with the materials to raise awareness and funds has been the stated mission of Land Grant Films, a creation of Associate Professor Nick Geidner and UT’s School of Journalism and Electronic…
Nief-Norf Summer Festival: Tonight, ‘Hypercube’ – Tomorrow, Marathon Finale
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival for 2018 is now in the finale stage following two weeks of contemporary music exploration for its fellows and audiences. The anticipated and highly recommended Marathon finale concert is on Sunday from 3 PM till 10…
KSO To Perform at Washington, DC, Kennedy Center During SHIFT Festival 2020
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will find itself in lofty company in 2020. The orchestra was one of four orchestras selected to perform a concert during the third SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras, performances that will take place at the Kennedy…
Review: Tennessee Valley Players Go ‘Into The Woods’
The Tennessee Valley Players current production in the Carousel Theatre of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lepine musical, ‘Into the Woods’, is a perfect example of just how this abstraction can work brilliantly with a little imagination.
Nief-Norf Summer Festival Performance Schedule
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival is an interdisciplinary summer music festival that attracts contemporary music performers, composers, and scholars to an environment of performance, creation, and discussion. The 2018 nnSF takes place June 11-25 with public performances in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center at the University of Tennessee.
Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ at Flying Anvil Theatre
Things aren’t going well for Casey, a less-than-successful Elvis impersonator in a less-than-successful, if not seedy, beach bar in Panama City, Florida. In fact, things are so bad, Casey and his wife, Jo, are facing eviction, and the bar’s owner, Eddie, is hoping Elvis would leave the building. Truly, things are looking downright dismal for Casey when Eddie’s cousin, a drag queen named Miss Tracy Mills, arrives to save the failing bar with a “new” type of act.
Market Square ‘Concerts on the Square’ Summer Schedule
It’s rather commonplace to find music and entertainment when you enter Market Square in the warm months. But there is a method to the music, at least on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer. The concerts are free thanks to the…
James Fellenbaum Named Artistic Director/Conductor of Brevard Philharmonic
By Alan Sherrod One of Knoxville’s busiest musicians is about to get just a bit busier. James Fellenbaum, who holds multiple conductorships in the Knoxville classical music world, has recently been named Artistic Director/Conductor of the Brevard Philharmonic. Fellenbaum…
Review: KSO Ends 2017-18 Season With Some Excitement and Risk-Taking
Perhaps it’s the warm weather, or perhaps it’s the seasonal idea of commencement—an ending that’s also a beginning. Whatever the impetus, the final concerts of the season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra each May always seem to evoke a mix of heart-tugging nostalgia and optimism for what the future may bring. On those final May concerts this past weekend, however, those usual emotions were joined by something new, a curious, but restrained sense of excitement and anticipation similar to what one feels when embarking on an adventure.
