Here are some suggestions for your Holiday streaming entertainment — in no particular order.
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Clarence Brown Theatre/UT Department of Theatre
Clarence Brown Theatre and the University of Tennessee Department of Theatre presents Carol Mayo Jenkins in a reading of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory
Free and on-demand through December 25 — https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/a-christmas-memory/
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Circle Modern Dance
Circle Modern Dance‘s annual holiday tradition, Modern Dance Primitive Light, will be streamed on their YouTube channel this Solstice season.
Performance will begin streaming Thursday, December 17 at 7:00 PM and continue thru Sunday, December 20th at Midnight. Please visit
www.circlemoderndance.com to Pre-Register for a streaming link and day of show email reminder. This is a free event, however donations are greatly appreciated and can be made when you pre-register for the YouTube link.
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Marble City Opera
Join Marble City Opera on Thursday, December 17th at 7pm on their YouTube Channel for a special Pint Sized Opera Online!
Hosted by Managing Director, Brandon Gibson, the stream will feature local singers Noelle Harb Brundige, Kayla Beard, Ryan Colbert, Maurice Hendricks, Whitney Myers, Tori Franklin, Elise Bianconi, and Kathryn Frady.
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Knoxville Opera
Knoxville Opera has produced a new holiday concert that is available for free on their website and YouTube channel. The concert features local favorites Jacqueline Brecheen, Aubrey Odle, and Wayd Odle with Brian Salesky as the program host and accompanist.
The video may be found here: https://youtu.be/F1ysB3kBgOU
The digital program book may be found here: https://bit.ly/HolidayProgramBook
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River and Rail Theatre Company
River and Rail Theatre Company‘s Gala which took place on Sunday, December 13, is available free until Thursday, December 17, at Midnight.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera continues its very popular program of free nightly streamings of performances from its archives.
A different streaming begins each evening at 7:30 PM from the Met Opera website and is available for 23 hours until 6:30 PM EDT the following day. [https://www.metopera.org] There is also loads of supplementary information on the operas at this site.
The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them without logging in, click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices.
Tues 12/15 – Wagner’s Lohengrin
Wed 12/16 – Berlioz’s Les Troyens
Thu 12/17 – Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini
Fri 12/18 – Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov
Sat 12/19 – Verdo’s Nabucco
Sun 12/20 – Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
CMS celebrates the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Bonn in 1770. The free program on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, begins at 10:00 AM ET and features sixteen works arranged chronologically divided into the composer’s three periods, as well as four additional lectures and a Meet the Music! concert for families. See CMS page below for details.
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Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
KJO’s Vance Thompson reports that the KJO Christmas Concert from 2018 featuring pianist Cyrus Chestnut and vocalist Kelle Jolly is now streaming through PBS Passport. It is free of charge, and you can find it
at this link.
KJO fans should also know that the KJO 2019 Christmas concert, featuring violinist Regina Carter and vocalists Kelle Jolly and Cait Lunsford will be broadcast on East Tennessee PBS on December 24 at 8pm.
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