The Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestras (KSYO) are offering a livestream virtual recital on Monday evening, December 7, at 7 PM. The winter recital will feature six ensembles of the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Program, plus finalists of the KSYO 2020-2021 Concerto Competition. Winners of the Concerto Competition will be announced during the livestream.
The concert will include works by Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi, Schubert and Shostakovich.
Virtual tickets are $5.50 available here:
https://knoxville-symphony-youth-orchestra.square.site/
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The UT Theatre Department is offering a free on-demand streaming of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory read by Carol Mayo Jenkins. Recorded on location at Knoxville’s historic Mabry-Hazen House, the program is available by streaming now through December 25. In conjunction with the reading, a “Full Belly Fund” virtual food drive has been set up with Second Harvest to provide food for the community. To watch “A Christmas Memory” and to donate to the Full Belly Fund, go to https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/a-christmas-memory/.
First published in 1956 and subsequently becoming a holiday classic, A Christmas Memory is a recollection of Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood. Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an enduring friendship between two innocent souls–one young and one old–and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.
Director John Sipes of the Department of Theatre at the University of Tennessee found Jenkins to be perfectly matched to the gentle, delicate lives the story chronicles.
“From time to time I have mused about directing a reading of the story once I could find the right actor to give voice to the gentle, delicate lives the story chronicles. And now I have found that actor-Carol Mayo Jenkins … Carol possesses all the qualities necessary to bring to life this touching story of wonder, love and the special bond of companionship. A Christmas Memory as read by Carol will lighten the darkness that now surrounds us,” Sipes said.
Streaming link: https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/a-christmas-memory/
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The Knoxville Museum of Art in conjunction with the Tennessee Art Education Association presents the East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition, showing now through Sunday, January 10, 2021. The exhibition, now in its 15th year, offers middle and high school students in East Tennessee the opportunity to participate in a juried exhibition, display their talents, and be honored for their accomplishments in a professional art setting.
Approximately 311 works of the more than 530 entries in this highly competitive show made it through a rigorous jury process. The best-in-show winner will receive a purchase award of $500, and the artwork will become a permanent part of the collection of Mr. James Dodson, on loan to the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Education Collection.
The “best of” winners for 2020:
Best in Show, Lily Asbury, 11th Grade, The Days We’ll Look Back On and Smile, acrylic paint, Cocke County High School, Myra Amason, Art Teacher
Best in Ceramic, Avery Flatford, 11th Grade, Mr. Tentacles, clay raku fired, Farragut High School, Wendie Love, Art Teacher
Best in Computer Graphics, Kendall Livingston, 10th Grade, Under rated, print, Maryville High School, Dr. Jeanie Parker, Art Teacher
Best in Drawing, Imelia Markus-Brock, 9th Grade, Eye Spy, charcoal, Oak Ridge High School, Gisela Schrock, Art Teacher
Best in Mixed Media, Rainee Mitchell, 10th Grade, Beautiful Mind, cardboard, glue, ink, magazine, paint, Oak Ridge High School, Joseph Moseley, Art Teacher
Best In Painting, Aurora Baez, 8th Grade, Orchids, acrylic paint, Bearden Middle School, Kimberly Bishop, Art Teacher
Best Photography, Kayleigh Brownlee, 8th Grade, My Creation in the Leaves, chromebook and origami, Bearden Middle School, Kimberly Bishop, Art Teacher
Best in Printmaking, Tristan Howard, 7th Grade, Atlantic Puffin, linoleum block print, The McCallie School, Suzanne Mortimer, Art Teacher
Best in Sculpture, Brian Barbo, 12th Grade, Ingrain, wood, metal and found objects, Hardin Valley Academy, Benjamin Eng, Art Teacher
Best in Show-Middle School, Bella Zigrossi, 8th Grade, Carnival, wool roving picks on styrofoam form, Saint Joseph School, Gae Sharp, Art Teacher
Best in Video Production, Lewis Walton, 12th Grade, LOVE, video production, West High School, Kat Furnari, Art Teacher
Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’S Fair Park
https://knoxart.org
Monday/Tuesday — Closed
Wednesday – Sunday — 1 PM to 5 PM
Closed—New Year’S Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’S Eve.
Reservations are recommended by going to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/knoxville-museum-of-art-timed-entry-visitor-registration-registration-109053985406.
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Flying Anvil Theatre is offering a virtual Caroling Karaoke, beginning at 7:00 PM on Friday, December 11. The program will be hosted by Laura Beth Wells and David Crawford, and accompanied by Paul Jones.
The pair will lead viewers through a selection of holiday classics and will perform a few solos and duets, accompanied by Jones. Viewers will also get a chance to join in and create a collaborative 12 Days of Christmas , mad-libs style.
Viewers can watch on the theatre’s Facebook page or YouTube channel, or by visiting flyinganviltheatre.com.
