BY ALAN SHERROD For a variety of reasons, the January Masterworks concerts of the…
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“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir
KSO This Week — A Perfect Pairing: Gluzman and Brahms
BY DIANA SALESKY One of the most important jobs a Music Director has is…
2025 Most Memorable Classical Music Performances in Knoxville
Change in the art and music world can come swiftly or cautiously, but finding meaning…
From the Archives: “The Most Famous Reindeer of All” (2016)
BY ALAN SHERROD [This story was originally published in 2016] You know Dasher and…
Review: Knoxville Chamber Music Society – Piano Quartets Take Center Stage
BY DIANA SALESKY The Knoxville Chamber Music Society’s 2025–26 season continued with a captivating…
Review: Pianist Park, Guest conductor Di Russo, and KSO Shine in ‘Rhapsody’ et al.
BY ALAN SHERROD With the beginnings of the holiday season now upon us, Knoxville…
Review: A New Beginning – UT Opera Theatre Presents Rossini and Menotti Comedies
BY ALAN SHERROD As the Bijou Theatre’s red curtain closed on the University of…
KSO Extends Aram Demirjian’s Contract Through 2030
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced that Music Director Aram Demirjian has signed a new…
KSO This Week: Pianist Chaeyoung Park — Classical Jazz Hands
I am fascinated to hear her answer to Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue when she joins the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on November 20/21 for her first performance of the piece, alongside conductor Michelle DiRusso. Pianists who perform this work have a lot to answer for, in that Gershwin demands not only classical virtuosity but also serious jazz chops.…
UT Opera Theatre Introduces a New Stage Director … and an Italian Double Feature
Stepping into the spotlight with his first production as Director of Opera Theatre at UT is James Kenon Mitchell.
For the fall production of the 2025-26 UTOT season, two one-act comic operas were chosen: La cambiale di matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) by Gioachino Rossini and Amelia al ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) by Gian Carlo Menotti.
