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 Opens 2021-22 Season With Sparkle and Substance

BY ALAN SHERROD   A sensation almost dreamlike and otherworldly permeated the Tennessee Theatre this…

This Week: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Opens Season With Works By Vivaldi, Elgar, and Valerie Coleman

BY ALAN SHERROD   Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks – “The Four Seasons” Valerie Coleman: Umoja…

UT Symphony Orchestra on Sunday: Audiences Welcome For American Premiere of Work by Emilie Mayer

BY ALAN SHERROD The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra Conductor: James Fellenbaum “Unfinished Business” Sunday,…

Big Ears Announces Lineup for March 2022 Festival

If we have learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on civilization, it…

Ellen Reid’s ‘Soundwalk’ To Launch At Ijams Nature Center on September 8

BY ALAN SHERROD   In the last year and a half, the simple act of…

Covid-19 Precautions: Knoxville Venues Update Entry Requirements for the Fall Season

Perhaps avoidable, but now undeniably inevitable, the major downtown Knoxville live performance venues—the Tennessee and…

Knoxville Opera To Offer A 7-Hour Musical Theatre Marathon on Saturday

Crowds of thousands enjoying musical performances in the fresh air of downtown Knoxville had been…

Review: Marble City Opera Delivers a Fabulous ‘Tosca’

BY ALAN SHERROD   When I previewed the first-ever performance by the fledgling Marble City…

Preview: Marble City Opera Returns to St. John’s Cathedral for Puccini’s ‘Tosca’

BY ALAN SHERROD   Marble City Opera — Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral,…

Review: KSO Wraps Four Month Season, Looks to the Future, with Torke’s ‘Sky’ and Beethoven

BY ALAN SHERROD   Although Isaac Newton probably wasn’t thinking about performers and performances when…

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