Music

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir

Review: KSO Honors Ukraine’s Struggle; Brilliant in Tchaikovsky and Brahms

BY ALAN SHERROD   Orchestra programming and guest artist booking by symphony orchestras are done…

Lorelei Ensemble’s ‘This Tyrant, Love’ Comes to Church of the Ascension on March 25

Lorelei Ensemble is a nine-member vocal ensemble that has become known for its inventive programs…

KSO This Week: Connecting Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Ethel Smyth

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series Aram Demirjian, conductor— Guest artist Tanya Gabrielian Tennessee Theatre, 604…

Big Ears Festival Announces Free Concerts — And A Parade

It probably came as no surprise to many when the Big Ears Festival 2022 announced…

Review: Knoxville Opera Returns with the Devilish Spectacle of ‘Mefistofele’

BY ALAN SHERROD   After an absence of over two years from the performing stage,…

First Friday of March: On Stage and On the Walls

Theatre, Music, and Opera UT Symphony Orchestra: Concertos and Classics This concert will feature the…

Review in Brief: KSO Offers Beautiful Bach; Coincidences Abound in Shostakovich

BY ALAN SHERROD   As Maestro Aram Demirjian indicated in his preface of Sunday afternoon’s…

This Week: Knoxville Opera Returns to the Stage with Boito’s ‘Mefistofele’

BY ALAN SHERROD   In the opera world of the 1860s, more than the mere…

Review: Marble City Opera Premieres Important Theatre in ‘I Can’t Breathe’

BY ALAN SHERROD   It would be impossible to find a more relevant topic for…

Confessions of a Bachophile: KSO’s Rachel Loseke and I-Pei Lin Take on Bach’s Double Violin Concerto

It is unlikely that any musician living today can claim that they were thrown into…

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