Since its first season in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has continued to find ways to grow and evolve, intriguing new music attendees year after year, and creating a performance gravity that has subsequently grown Knoxville’s art and music scene.…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Boeing Boeing’ – May The Farce Be With You
By Alan Sherrod Don’t be surprised if you find yourself checking your calendar at Flying Anvil Theatre’s delicious production of Boeing Boeing. Yes, in the real world, the year is 2020 where words like “sexism” and “consensual” fly through…
Review in Brief: Cavani String Quartet Wraps Up Its UT School of Music Residency With Beethoven, Shaw, and Mendelssohn
By Alan Sherrod One would be hard-pressed to find a work that is a greater example of the ideals of chamber music than Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20. At the age of 16 in 1825, the young…
GO! Contemporary Dance Works Presents ‘Unsung Heroes’
It is an ironic fact that war—for all its destructive futility—accelerates social change. When World War II began and men were called into the service, women were called to work in defense plants and for war-related organizations, in addition to…
Tennessee Stage Company Begins 2020 New Play Festival
Performances in Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival begin this weekend and continue into March. The performances fall into three categories: Table Readings, Staged Readings, and World Premieres of Full Productions. Information and Tickets The schedule is: Table Readings Christmas Reunion…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: January 28, 2020
Grammy Award News — The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance went to the Attacca Quartet for its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange, appearing on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. NPR’s Tom Huizenga called it “A love letter…
Opening at KMA: “Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door”
This winter and spring, Knoxville will find itself at a most remarkable and important intersection of art, music, opera, literature, and cultural education. At the center of that intersection is the life and art of Beauford Delaney, an African American…
Review in Brief: KSO’s Concertmaster Series Dives Into Beethoven, Haydn, and Bates
By Alan Sherrod Since its humble beginnings in the backroom of a coffee house, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series has evolved organically, continuing to dazzle with small ensemble virtuosity, while also exploring the music’s connections to history and…
Violinist Itzhak Perlman Coming to Knoxville for a March Performance
In a continuation of last year’s Violins of Hope events, the University of Tennessee School of Music and the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School are bringing world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman to Knoxville to perform at the Tennessee Theatre. There…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: January 21, 2020
This may be the last week before the big winter crush of performances and shows that inundate us with conflicting choices. Take these events in while you can. “William Shaub and Friends”, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series concert…
