As the autumn leaves drift by the window, one realizes that October is now half way toward Halloween with a packed schedule of music and arts happenings still to come in Knoxville.
Knoxville Opera — Verdi’s Falstaff
Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, receives a Knoxville Opera production of two performances: Friday, October 13, 7:30 PM, and Sunday, October 15, 2:30 PM, at the Tennessee Theatre. Based on the Shakespeare play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, the deliciously farcical comic opera features the character of Sir John Falstaff and his efforts to seduce and gain the fortunes of two married women.
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University of Tennessee College of Music
• Guest Artist: Stephan Möller — Complete 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas – Program 3
Sonatas #16 – #26
Friday, October 13, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
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• UT Symphony Orchestra – “Statements”
Sibelius: Finlandia
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 with cellist Wesley Baldwin
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn (cond. Hunter Wilburn)
Conductor: James Fellenbaum
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 4:00 PM
James R. Cox Auditorium, UT Campus
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• Sanctuary Walls – Music by Forrest Wentzel, Poems by Brian Griffin
“Sanctuary Walls” is a selection of 11 poems chosen from a larger work of poems being published by Mr. Griffin entitled “Single Lens Reflex”. The poems are reflections of his experience as the Youth Leader of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on the morning of July 27, 2008. That day a gunman entered the sanctuary, removed a shotgun from his guitar case, and began firing into the congregation during a presentation being given by the congregation’s youth. Three shots were fired. Two souls were lost. Many others were wounded in ways far surpassing the physical injuries endured.
Mr. Wentzel, then a youth at Church of the Savior United Church of Christ, a progressive protestant voice in Knoxville, and in many ways a sister congregation to TVUUC had connections to several of the youth of the assaulted church. When the opportunity to set these poems became available to him, Forrest felt the call to respond. “Sanctuary Walls” is the result.”
Performed by Professor Emeritus Andrew Wentzel (bass), Karen Nickell (mezzo-soprano) and Julia Haas (piano). The recital will be live-streamed here.
Tuesday, October 17 at 7:30pm
Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
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• Guest / Faculty Performance: Weiwei Le; violin & Chih-Long Hu; piano
Tuesday, October 24, 7:30 PM
Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
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• Guest Artist Recital: Pianists Kristofer Rucinski and Marianna Prjevalskaya
Guest artists Kristofer Rucinski and Marianna Prjevalskaya present an all-Scriabin piano recital.
Wednesday, October 25, at 5:30 PM
Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
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Marble City Opera: Pint Sized Opera @ Fanatic Brewing Co.
Opera and Beer. October 16 at 7:30pm
Fanatic Brewing Company
2735 N Central St, Knoxville, TN 37917
www.marblecityopera.com
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Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre: The Moors
“An anthropomorphic Mastiff. A catfished governess. Two forlorn sisters on bleak English Moors yearning for love in a manor where every room looks the same. This is a new play the likes of which you have not seen before. It’s a dark, funny, genre-bending trip the New York Times calls, “the reason we go to the theater.”
Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre on the UT Campus
October 18 – November 5
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Traditional Irish Arts of Knoxville presents Bohola
Traditional Irish Arts of Knoxville presents Bohola in concert. Bohola consists of Irish music accordion virtuoso Jimmy Keane and the remarkable bouzar player and vocalist Pat Broaders.
“Bohola play a driving, muscular, and yet very emotive style of Irish music with deep roots in the ‘pure drop’ tradition, infused with the raw and gritty urbanized musical vernacular of the Irish and Irish-American experience.”
Friday, October 20, 2023 at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:00pm
Old City Performing Arts Center (111 State St.)
Tickets are available at www.tradknox.com.
