Even with the advantage of history, it’s hard to imagine that Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op 25, would have ever generated uncertainty or puzzlement in anyone. It’s said that Clara Schumann had slight misgivings about the work,…
2017 Knoxville Film Festival At Regal Downtown West Sep. 15-17
(Above: Winners from the 2016 Knoxville Film Festival) Now in its 14th year, the Knoxville Film Festival has grown from its previous incarnation as the Secret City Film Festival into a major event for local cinephiles, both filmmakers and film-goers.…
September Events At the UT School of Music
Without doubt, the greatest bang-for-the-buck in Knoxville’s music scene often flies under the radar of Knoxville concertgoers — the University of Tennessee School of Music’s Guest Artist and Faculty recital series. The events roll on like clockwork when school is…
Review: CBT’s ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ – An Ensemble Tour de Force
There is no greater example in literature of the boundlessness of childhood imagination than the story of Peter Pan. Created in a number of vehicles by J.M. Barrie including his 1904 play, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow…
Review: ‘God of Carnage’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
It all begins amicably enough. Two sets of parents in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn meet to cordially discuss a fight that has taken place between their two 11-year old sons, a fight in which one boy struck the…
UT Alum Alexandria Shiner Joins Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program
It goes without saying that the beginning of any career is full of uncertainties and daunting obstacles. For young opera singers, though, the keys to success are even more tantalizingly elusive, magnified by the stratospheric level of natural vocal talent…
A Sad Day: The Knoxville Mercury Shuts Down
As if there wasn’t enough consternation in our lives, Knoxville’s journalism scene has suffered yet another blow–the Knoxville Mercury will cease publication with the July 20 issue. As editor Coury Turczyn summarized in his goodbye announcement, “The reason is pretty…
Final Weekend for 2017 nief-norf Summer Festival
The 2017 nief-norf Summer Festival and Sixth International Conference on Music & Minimalism wraps up this weekend.
nief-norf Summer Festival Performances Begin Monday, June 12
nief-norf describes its Summer Festival as “an interdisciplinary summer music festival,” but that really falls substantially short in communicating just how important and compelling it is in the world of contemporary music. The festival brings together performers, composers, and scholars in…
KSO Appoints William Shaub As Its Next Concertmaster
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of William Shaub as its next concertmaster, replacing Gabriel Lefkowitz who has taken the concertmaster position with the Louisville Orchestra following six years with the KSO. Shaub was one of two finalists…
