Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville to Receive $150,000 NEA Grant Paris Woodhull Begins Work on New Strong Alley Mural Sunday: UT Symphony Chamber Orchestra Concert Sunday: UT Music, Piano Trios by Bulgarian Composers • • • …
Fresh Faces in the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – 2021 Edition
Symphony orchestra rosters are generally very stable, but it is inevitable that both professional ambitions and personal needs produce some turnover of player personnel. Amazingly, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra survived the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown and an uncomfortable labor dispute mostly…
Review: The Magic Returns – UT Opera Theatre Delights With Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’
BY ALAN SHERROD Imagine being a young singer with operatic ambitions, ready to make the most of an undergraduate or graduate opera program to provide a springboard into the professional world, when rather suddenly … everything comes to a…
On the Wall and Off the Wall — Knoxville Visual Arts For November
Tri-Star Arts at Candoro “Greetings From Vestal” A group show composed of works by the Tri-Star Arts studio artists working in the Candoro Marble Building: Rachel Sevier Dallery, Casey Fletcher, Jillian Hirsch, Risa Hricovsky, Jing Qin, & Alissa Walls. Runs…
New Kids on the Block – The Knoxville Chamber Music Society Offers Its First Concert
BY ALAN SHERROD Thanks to the remarkable resurgent interest in vinyl LPs, I can still use the simile “sounding like a broken record” and yet have most readers understand the reference. In this case, I freely and happily admit…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: November First Friday Week Overflows With Events
Emboldened by a good economy and signs that Covid-19 vaccinations have made going to performances safer, the Knoxville music and art scene finds itself on a happy roll. Something for everyone this week, and for the rest of the month.…
Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Lily’ – Audrey Babcock Is Spellbinding in One-Woman Show
BY ALAN SHERROD There are those illusive gems of music and theatre—performances and performers— that seem to exist only for audiences who know how to recognize their importance and artistic value when fate brings them together. In many ways,…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Marble City Opera – ‘Lily’, Big Ears 2022 Additions, UT Percussion Ensemble
Things to Know and See This Week, October 26-31 Marble City Opera Knoxville theatre and opera goers may remember mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock from the 2015 Knoxville Opera production of Carmen, certainly made memorable by Babcock in the title role. This…