The Musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be performing a benefit concert for the victims of the recent wildfires in Sevier County, TN. The program will contain a variety of ensembles performing traditional chamber music as well as familiar…
The Most Famous Reindeer of All
What I didn’t know at the time was the intriguing, and somewhat sad, back story behind Rudolph—a tale probably lost on children, but one with the heartbreak and irony that is all too familiar to adults.
KSO This Week: “Appalachian Spring”
This week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks titled “Appalachian Spring” features works by Charles Ives, William Grant Still, Jeff Midkiff, and Aaron Copland
Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, downtown Knoxville
Thursday and Friday, November 17 and 18, 7:30 PM
Sunday: Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra—’Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’
The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra’s Chamber Classics continues on Sunday afternoon, October 30, with a concert titled “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.”
(2:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre in Downtown Knoxville)
Conductor: James Fellenbaum
Violin soloist: Edward Pulgar
Review in Brief: Marble City Opera’s ‘La Davina’ and ‘Gallantry’
It seems that Marble City Opera crossed a mysterious, but rewarding, threshold last weekend with its performances of two one-act comedies La Davina (Thomas Pasatieri) and Gallantry (Douglas Moore). The performances in the gallery of the Emporium Center seemed to transcend an issue…
Review: KSO Brings Delectable Passions and Delicious Sublime Subversion
Review of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks concerts this weekend, concerts that featured Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and works by Rossini and Puccini.
Fresh Faces in the KSO-2016 Edition
Finally, those mysterious new faces on the stage for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra have been revealed. Four musicians won auditions in September and have been added to the KSO roster.
Friends of Music and the Arts Announces 2016-17 Concerts
The Friends of Music and the Arts (FOMA), a program of Knoxville’s Episcopal Church of the Ascension, has announced its schedule of concerts for 2016-17. An obvious highlight of the season is a special ticketed event this month, a concert…
Review in brief: ‘Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends’ offers a delicious ‘Trout’
Franz Schubert, at his best, gives the listener a feeling of euphoria, an ineffable sensation of joy that falls somewhere between contentment and exhilaration. Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” (Quintet in A Major, D. 667), heard last evening on the Knoxville Symphony…
Review: KSO Chamber Orchestra, “Mozart and Haydn”
In case there are any readers who haven’t noticed, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series at the Bijou is right up there as my favorite music series in Knoxville. The reasons for this are pretty obvious. The clarity of…
