Alan Sherrod

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Drawing from a career background in music, motion pictures, and theatre, Alan Sherrod has been writing about Knoxville's diverse art and music scene since 2007 — first as the classical/new music writer for the alternative weekly Metro Pulse, then later in the same capacity for the Knoxville Mercury. After the closure of Metro Pulse in 2014 by its parent company, Sherrod created ARTS KNOXVILLE to provide a home for Knoxville arts journalism. In August, 2017, he expanded ARTS KNOXVILLE into the site it is today — a site dedicated to continuing the arts journalism legacy of those alternative weeklies. In addition to covering Knoxville's arts scene, he has also contributed music content to the Nashville Scene and other arts and entertainment publications around the U.S, including the website, Classical Journal. Mr. Sherrod was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera — under the auspices of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2019, Sherrod was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

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nief-norf Summer Festival–June 7-20

The Big Ears Festival has benefited Knoxville in countless ways, some obvious and glaringly important, but many more invisible or understated and, nonetheless, critical to the music scene and the city’s image. One of these benefits has been the exposure and publicity…

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Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Sweets By Kate’ Charms–Devilishly

One of the many engaging features of Marble City Opera has been its willingness and courage to present in a wide range of alternative performance spaces—from refurbished stages to coffee shop backrooms to church naves. Their most recent locations were…

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KSO Wraps 2015-16 Season This Week with Wagner, Beethoven, and Theofanidis

The 2015-16 season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra ends this week with concerts featuring works by Richard Wagner, Beethoven, and Theofanidis.

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Review in the Knoxville Mercury: Knoxville Opera’s ‘Tosca’

You’ll find a review of Knoxville Opera’s production of Tosca in this week’s Knoxville Mercury, online here. No umbrella required.

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Concert View: KSO Chamber Classics–Britten, Mozart, and Dvorak

The Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro James Fellenbaum performed works by Benjamin Britten, Mozart, and Dvořák on last Sunday’s Chamber Classics concert at the Bijou. Gabriel Lefkowitz was soloist in the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3.

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Sunday: Gabriel Lefkowitz Plays Mozart at the Bijou

This Sunday, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series features Gabriel Lefkowitz as soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216. Conductor James Fellenbaum will also lead the Chamber Orchestra in two works for strings, Britten’s ‘Simple Symphony’ and Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for String Orchestra in E Major, Op. 22.