UTKSOM: Ready for the World Music Series
The UT School of Music’s Ready for the World Music Series will be back to live performances this Sunday in a program that features the Grammy-winning Harlem String Quartet. The program will offer works by Afro-Caribbean composers and composers from the African Diaspora. The quartet is known for advancing diversity in classical music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. That engagement has taken them around the world including a 2009 White House performance for President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and a widely admired tour of South Africa in 2012.
The program this Sunday, March 20, will start at 12:30 PM with browsable cultural displays in UT’s Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. A short lecture about the composers at 2:00 PM will be followed by the recital in the Powell Recital Hall. Click here to purchase your ticket.
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Flying Anvil Theatre Presents Loot by Joe Orton
Opens Thursday, March 17 — Runs through Sunday, April 3.
Outrage greeted Joe Orton’s biting satire of British hypocrisy when it premiered in 1965. Loot had a successful New York premiere in 1968, subsequently followed by a number of noteworthy NYC productions including one at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1986.
Directed by Jayne Morgan.
Joe Orton’s Loot at Flying Anvil Theatre, 1300 Rocky Hill Road
Through April 3; Thursday-Saturdays at 7:30 PM; Sundays at 2:00 PM
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Big Ears Festival Expands Free Events to Include Talks by Nikki Giovanni and Hanif Abdurraqib
Scheduled during the festival at the Mill and Mine, talks by Nikki Giovanni and Hanif Abdurraqib have been added to the growing list of events open to the public during the festival. Giovanni will appear on Saturday, March 26, at 11:00 AM; Hanif Abdurraqib will appear on Sunday afternoon, March 27, at 1:00 PM.
Poet, writer, activist, educator, and Knoxville-native Nikki Giovanni is, of course, a legend whose powerful and original work now spans six decades. Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2021 and shortlisted for the National Book Award for his latest, A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performances. Music and art are at the essential core of each writer’s work. Both events are presented in conjunction with the Beck Cultural Center of Knoxville.
