The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra opened its 2024-25 season with George Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, plus ‘Kauyumari’ by the contemporary Mexican composer, Gabriela Ortiz. Aram Demirjian conducted.
KSO Season Opener This Week: Beethoven’s Fifth and Gershwin’s Concerto in F
BY ALAN SHERROD As 21st Century listeners, we discover there is something strangely satisfying about the familiar “ta-ta-ta-DAH” opening passage of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. That satisfaction, though, goes well beyond the pleasure of simple recognition. The remainder of the…
Review Bits: UT Symphony Orchestra Opens the Season with “Italian” Flavor
There was a time in Knoxville’s music past when we treated the accomplishments of the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum as news. Sunday’s season opening concert program of the UTSO, which had as…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra Begins 2024-25 Season with Italian Flavor
“Italian” is the key word for Sunday afternoon (September 15) as the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra begins its 2024-25 season. UTSO music director and conductor James Fellenbaum will lead the orchestra in a program of works that were written…
Big Ears Festival Announces the 2025 LineUp
Since its launch in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has pushed the boundaries of the music world for listeners with its genre-defying, multi-dimensional programming. The 2025 Festival participants—at least some—have been announced and, once again, the mind boggles at the…
Review: A Provocative and Poignant ‘Knoxville’ at Clarence Brown Theatre
The latest adaptation of Agee’s ‘A Death in the Family’ is the musical ‘Knoxville’ written by the late Frank Galati with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. ‘Knoxville’ opened this past weekend at the University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre sporting superbly polished staging and a uniformly strong cast. The production continues through September 22.
Heads Up! What to See in Knoxville Theatre in September
Clarence Brown Theatre: Knoxville Is Knoxville Broadway bound? We’re talking about the new musical Knoxville, music by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens with a book by the late Frank Galati, that opens at the Clarence Brown Theatre on…
ACE Becomes Amadeus Concert Ensemble and Announces 2024-25 Concerts
To more accurately reflect its evolution, scale, and importance, the Knoxville performance entity previously known as the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble has undergone a name change to become the Amadeus Concert Ensemble. Its thoughtfully presented composer-themed concerts employing notable soloists appearing…
Review Bits: Marble City Opera’s ‘Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites’
Telling someone to “go sing in a cave” sounds like a perfectly delicious fifth grade playground taunt, but, in truth, it is a tactic that seems to be working quite well for Marble City Opera. This past Saturday afternoon found them in Historic Cherokee Caverns off Oak Ridge Highway for “Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites,” a program of mostly operatic nuggets for three local tenors: Cody Boling, Chris Plass, and John Overholt.
Clarence Brown Theatre Brings Musical ‘Knoxville’ to the Stage
It hardly needs saying that the hottest theatre ticket of the year in Knoxville is … Knoxville. The musical Knoxville, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family by Knoxville native son James Agee, opens at the…
