Grammy Award News —
The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance went to the Attacca Quartet for its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange, appearing on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. NPR’s Tom Huizenga called it “A love letter to the string quartet.…” Shaw, a North Carolina native, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices. Shaw is scheduled for this year’s Big Ears Festival. [See the Cavani String Quartet listing below for another performance of Shaw’s music.]
Speaking of this year’s Big Ears ensembles, the Kronos Quartet’s collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, won the Grammy Award for “Best Engineered Album, Classical.”
Andrew Norman’s Sustain, a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music, won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was led by music director Gustavo Dudamel.
—THIS WEEK—
Opening at Flying Anvil Theatre is BOEING BOEING a comic farce by Marc Camelloti.
“This 1960’s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard’s apartment, at the same time.”
Preview on Thursday, January 30; Opening night on Friday, January 31. Runs Thursdays – Sundays through February 16.
Tickets and Information Or call 865-357-1309.
Flying Anvil Theatre, 1300 Rocky Hill Rd, behind the Rocky Hill Shopping Center
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At the UT School of Music, the Cavani String Quartet performs a recital on Wednesday evening along with members of the UT School of Music string faculty.
• Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 18 No. 6
• Caroline Shaw: Blueprint (2016)
• Felix Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings, Opus 20, in E flat Major
(With guest UT faculty members Geoff Herd, violin; Hillary Herndon, viola; Wesley Baldwin, cello; student guest artist Clarice Collins, violin)
Wednesday, January 29, 8:00 PM
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie Haslam Music Center, UT Campus, FREE
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KSO Q-Series at The Elks Lodge in West Knoxville
This concert features a one-hour performance by the KSO Principal String Quartet and the KSO Principal Woodwind Quintet and tickets include lunch.
MOZART: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421
BLUMER: Quintet for Wind Instruments, Opus 52 (1924)
Single concert tickets on sale for $20 at the door.
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UT Downtown Gallery — 2020 Artist-in-Residence Biennial
The 2020 AIR Biennial will be a showcase of the work of the past four Artists in Residence at the UT School of Art: Dana Lok, Fox Hysen, Tracy Thomason, and Caitlin MacBride
Runs January 31 – March 7, 2020
Reception: February First Friday, February 7th 5-9pm
Reception: March First Friday, March 6th, 5-9pm
Regular gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday 11AM – 6PM; Saturdays 10AM – 3PM
106 S. Gay Street, Downtown, next door to the Emporium Building
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McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture: Visions of the End
Visions of the End explores the Apocalypse through art inspired by the writings of John of Patmos, who wrote the Book of Revelation around 100 C.E. The exhibition features twenty-six pieces of medieval and Renaissance art from collecting institutions such as the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Glencairn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Walters Art Museum.
Opens on Friday, January 31, and continues through May 10.
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, 1327 Circle Park Drive on the UT Campus
Museum hours: Monday-Saturday 9 AM–5 PM; Sunday 1 PM–5 PM
FREE admission and parking Information
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On Sunday, February 2, the UT School of Music offers the first in a series of three faculty recitals of Beethoven’s Piano Trios.
In celebration of Beethoven’s birth, UT faculty members Kevin Class (piano), Geoffrey Herd (violin), and Wesley Baldwin (cello) perform the first of three programs devoted to Beethoven’s Piano Trios. This program includes the Op. 1 trios.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie Haslam Music Center, 8:00 PM
FREE
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The Knoxville Children’s Theatre production of Alice in Wonderland runs through Sunday, February 2.
KCT, 109 E. Churchwell Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37917 – TEL 865-208-3677
Tickets and Information
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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/
