Marble City Opera: World Premiere of I Can’t Breathe
Demand was great for tickets to Marble City Opera’s World Premiere production of a new opera, I Can’t Breathe, music by Leslie Burrs and libretto by Brandon Gibson. The three performances (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 24-26) at the Beck Cultural Center quickly sold out. However, online streaming tickets are available at www.marblecityopera.com/tickets
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Master Arts Series Recital – “An Evening of Romantic Chamber Music”
This series, sponsored by Church Street United Methodist Church, continues with a chamber music recital featuring works by Amy Beach, Robert Schumann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Johannes Brahms. Performing will be pianists Fay Adams and Edie Johnson, violinist Sean Claire, and hornist Katie Johnson-Webb.
Tuesday evening, February 22, 7:30, in the nave of Church Street UMC. The recital is FREE.
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Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Chamber Classics Series
This Sunday afternoon concert at the Bijou promises to be intriguing, thanks to some interesting programming and interesting performers.
KSO violinists I-Pei Lin and Rachel Loseke will share the solo spot in J.S. Bach’s Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor.
The intrigue continues with Igor Stravinsky’s three movement Octet and its unusual complement of instruments: Flute, two bassoons, B-flat clarinet (doubles on clarinet in A), trumpet in C and trumpet in A, tenor trombone, and bass trombone.
Rudolph Barshai transcribed the five Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartets into “Chamber Symphonies”. The KSO is taking on the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 that was arranged into the Chamber Symphony, Op. 73A, with strings and woodwinds.
KSO Chamber Classics (Works by J.S. Bach, Shostakovich, Stravinsky)
Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street
Sunday afternoon, February 27, 2:30 PM
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