As we keep repeating as if it wasn’t obvious, 2021 has been a year like…
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
Most Memorable Music Performances of 2021
BY ALAN SHERROD Last year—2020—will forever bear an asterisk in the history books to…
Knoxville Opera Announces Big Changes To Its Artistic Management Team
BY ALAN SHERROD In what promises to be a significant change to one of…
From 2016: “The Most Famous Reindeer of All”
BY ALAN SHERROD [This story was originally published in 2016] You know Dasher and…
Review: KSO Journeys Through Color and Emotions in Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, and McKay
BY ALAN SHERROD The fall Masterworks season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has been…
Fresh Faces in the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – 2021 Edition
Symphony orchestra rosters are generally very stable, but it is inevitable that both professional ambitions…
Review: The Magic Returns – UT Opera Theatre Delights With Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
BY ALAN SHERROD Imagine being a young singer with operatic ambitions, ready to make…
New Kids on the Block – The Knoxville Chamber Music Society Offers Its First Concert
BY ALAN SHERROD Thanks to the remarkable resurgent interest in vinyl LPs, I can…
Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Lily’ – Audrey Babcock Is Spellbinding in One-Woman Show
BY ALAN SHERROD There are those illusive gems of music and theatre—performances and performers—…
