BY ALAN SHERROD In what promises to be a significant change to one of…
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
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—…
Review: KSO Is ‘Fantastique’; Violinist Paul Huang Exhilarates in Bruch
BY ALAN SHERROD If there was a word that combined “exhilaration” with “exuberance,” we…
UT Symphony Orchestra on Sunday: Bartok and Shostakovich
University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra Viola Celebration Finale Sunday, October 24, 4:00 PM James R.…

