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.
On Sunday: Amadeus Chamber Ensemble Goes Mining for “French Opera Jewels”
The magic of the 19th Century French Grand Opera is the intriguing subject of the next free concert by the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble as a part of the Cathedral Concert Series on Sunday, March 3.
Review: KSO and Violinist Geneva Lewis Present a Detailed and Subtle Beethoven
There are some concert program combinations that are simply too intriguing to pass up, for any number of reasons. Maestro Aram Demirjian and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra unlocked one of those combinations this past weekend, cutting an enjoyable swath through music history from early Romanticism through turn-of-the-century Impressionism, then finally introducing a compelling new work by a living American composer.
Review: CBT’s ‘The Giver’ – Warning of a Dystopian World and a Ray of Hope
The current Clarence Brown Theatre production of ‘The Giver’ which opened last week, is a stage adaptation by Eric Coble that was commissioned and premiered by the Oregon Children’s Theatre in 2006.
Review: Knoxville Opera’s ‘La Traviata’
BY ALAN SHERROD Whether drawn by the popular classic tale of doomed love, by the score that is inescapably evocative, or merely by the opportunity for a romantic date night out, the audience for Knoxville Opera and its production…
This Week: Knoxville Opera Returns To Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’
Knoxville Opera returns this weekend to the very popular ‘La Traviata’ by Giuseppe Verdi with two performances at the Tennessee Theatre on Friday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Review: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ — A Feast of Theatre
‘Fat Ham’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022, is loosely based on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ Although the main characters have parallels in both and the conflict of father versus son is the common underpinning, Ijames takes the inevitability of family and societal violence on a different sort of journey in a different sort of vehicle.
Preview: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ Channels the Bard
One of the many reasons that Shakespeare’s plays are still with us both as literature and dramatic production is that they carry universal themes that seem to exist happily outside of their original context. That is the case with River…
Review: KSO Concertmaster Series Looks at the Legacy of Violinist Jascha Heifetz
In the second Concertmaster Series outing of the 2023-24 season at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster William Shaub and his KSO colleagues chose to make the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz the connecting force for their recital.
Review: KSO’s Present and Future Meet in a Celebration of Musicianship and the Mahler Fourth
The title given to this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts was “The Heavenly Life: Mahler Symphony No. 4.” A less poetic, but perhaps equally accurate title might have been “Musicianship: Now and in the Future.”
