This may be the last week before the big winter crush of performances and shows that inundate us with conflicting choices. Take these events in while you can.
“William Shaub and Friends”, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series concert of chamber music at the Knoxville Museum of Art, offers its second event of the 2019-2020 season. In line with the ongoing Beethoven250 celebration, host and KSO concertmaster William Shaub has selected two important Beethoven works, the Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor and the Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 “Ghost”. Shaub will tie in two other works, Mason Bates’ Ford’s Farm for Solo Violin and a movement from Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39.
Wednesday, January 22, 7:00 PM
Thursday, January 23, 7:00 PM
Knoxville Museum of Art
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The Beethoven party heats up on Sunday as the KSO’s Chamber Classics Series offers an All-Beethoven program at the Bijou Theatre of works from the composer’s early period, in and around 1800. Aram Demirjian conducts; the violin soloists in the Romances will be Zofia Glashauser and Ruth Bacon.
String Quartet Op. 18, No. 6 – The Principal String Quartet
Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40
Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Sunday, January 26, 2:30 PM at the Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street
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On Sunday, the Young Pianist Series kicks off its 2020 series of three recitals with pianist Alvin Zhu. This recital series, now in its 41st season, is known for showcasing pianists on the verge of major international careers.
A native of Pittsburgh,PA, Zhu sprang from a family of renowned musicians. A graduate of Juilliard’s Five-year BM/MM Accelerated Program with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky in 2014, Zhu went on to further studies after being awarded the distinguished C.V. Starr Foundation Doctoral Scholarship at Juilliard, attaining his Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in 2019 under the tutelage of Dr. Kaplinsky and Professor Julian Martin. Currently, he is the youngest professor in the inaugural faculty roster of the Tianjin Juilliard School — Juilliard’s first branch campus — specializing in solo piano, chamber music and music history in the Pre-college and Graduate divisions.
Sunday, January 26, 2:30 PM at UT’s Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
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Arthur Miller’s classic American play Death Of A Salesman is in its final week at Theatre Knoxville Downtown Thursdays – Sundays through January 26.
Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 800 S. Central Street
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The Knoxville Children’s Theatre production of Alice in Wonderland runs through February 2.
KCT, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917 – TEL 865-208-3677
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UT Downtown Gallery — Artist in Residence Biennial
An exhibition featuring the work of the last 4 Artists in Residence at the UT School of Art: Dana Lok, Fox Hysen, Tracy Thomason, and Caitlin MacBride
Opens: Wednesday, January 22
Runs Through: February 29
UT Downtown Gallery, 106 S. Gay Street
Gallery Hours: W-F 11-6, Sa 10-3.
Information: 865-673-0802, http://web.utk.edu/~downtown
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The January exhibitions continue through January 31 at the Arts and Culture Alliance’s Emporium Center—
• Gale Stryker: RavenzWould: Whispered the Passerby…
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Gallery of Arts Tribute
• The Art of Stephen R. Hicks
• The Big Camera! and A1LabArts: Camera Obscura II
• Regina Tullock: Cityscapes, Landscapes & Waterscapes
Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, Downtown
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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Ewing Gallery: Unsustainable – a Planet in Crisis
Through February 16, 2020
The Ewing Gallery presents Unsustainable: A Planet in Crisis – a group exhibition featuring artwork ranging in material, discipline, and execution that addresses the theme of planetary crises – climate change, the rise of disease and superbugs, world conflict and national instability, plastics in the ocean, gun violence, pollution of the waterways from mining, air pollution from use of fossil fuels, the opioid crisis, and species extinction.
The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard
Art and Architecture Building
https://ewing-gallery.utk.edu/
