The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Aram Demirjian, has recently announced the program lineups and dates for its 2024-25 season for each of its five main series. Season subscriptions are on sale to current subscribers who want to…
Review: KSO and Guests Deliver Sweeping Scale and Delicious Details in Dvořák and Tchaikovsky
March has been Guest Conductor and Cello month for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. For this weekend’s Masterworks concerts, Conductor Vinay Parameswaran and cellist Tommy Mesa joined the KSO for works by Dvořák (‘Silent Woods’ and Symphony No. 8) and Tchaikovsky (Rococo Variations).
Spotlight: Steve Keene – ‘The Punk Picasso’ – At the Red Gallery During Big Ears
Visitors to the Red Gallery on Jackson Avenue this month have entered a different side of the painting world, the touring exhibition of Steve Keene’s paintings, known at the Hirschhorn Collection. However, as Big Ears cranks up March 21 –…
Spotlight: KSO and Guest Conductor Vinay Parameswaran This Week
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts this week feature guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran and cello soloist Thomas Mesa. The program includes Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.
Review: ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune’ – The Audience as Voyeur
The audience became a voyeur in this superbly compelling and impressive performance of Terrence McNally’s ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune.’ The two-character play was being given 5 performances in a “secret location” by Amber Collins Crane and Gregory Crane as the title couple with direction by David Ratliff.
New to Knoxville — Theater 23 Launches With Arlene Hutton’s ‘As It Is In Heaven’
Trying out the theatrical waters in Knoxville is a new enterprise, Theater 23, headed up by its Founding Artistic Director, Tom Eubanks, a recent Knoxville transplant from California. Their first production will be ‘As It Is in Heaven’ by Arlene Hutton directed by Eubanks and performed at the Old City Performing Arts Center.
Review: Guest Conductor Michelle Di Russo and KSO Bring An Exuberant Mendelssohn and Vivaldi
This month’s KSO Chamber Classics conductor on Sunday afternoon at the Bijou Theatre was Michelle di Russo, currently Associate Conductor with North Carolina Symphony. Two KSO cellists, Sarah Senn and Adam Ayers, were soloists in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos.
March First Friday: When Cometh Spring?
A deal may have been worked out with Mother Nature to spare Knoxville’s March First Friday from the rain, but one will still need a jacket that evening. That’s a small price to pay for being able to shake off…
This Sunday: KSO Takes An Italian Voyage with Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Vivaldi
On this Sunday’s KSO Chamber Classics Series concert at the Bijou, guest conductor Michelle di Russo leads the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra in works by Mendelssohn, Rossini, Vivaldi, and Romero. KSO cellists Adam Ayers and Sarah Senn will be soloists in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos.