By Alan Sherrod Ludwig van Beethoven—born on December 17, 1770—still has 14 months to go before his 250th anniversary, but that isn’t stopping musicians, ensembles, and orchestras all over the globe from taking advantage of a two-year celebration period…
Clothing as Metaphor – Now at the Knoxville Museum of Art: Karen LaMonte’s ‘Nocturne I’
Commissioned with funds provided by patrons Nancy and Stephen Land, the Knoxville Museum of Art has added Karen LaMonte’s Nocturne I to its outdoor sculpture collection on the KMA grounds. For the last 30 years since her graduation from the…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s Outrageous Comedy ‘Hand To God’ – A Sock Puppet and the Nature of Evil
By Alan Sherrod Just when you thought that Flying Anvil Theatre and director Jayne Morgan had exhausted the supply of plays involving dysfunctional southern families, they have unearthed another gem—this one with more than a little comic bite. There…
Review: Baroque Excitement from KSO Concertmaster William Shaub and Friends
By Alan Sherrod One of the themes that musical Baroque-ophiles love to espouse about their adored Baroque era—after the impassioned joy it produces in them as musicians or listeners—is the inspirational effect that the music has had on subsequent…
Big Ears Festival 2020 Lineup Announcement: Ashley Capps Reveals A Few Festival Highlights
BIG EARS FESTIVAL 2020 • MARCH 26-29, KNOXVILLE, TN Tickets On Sale Thursday, October 10, At Noon EDT Information and Tickets: bigearsfestival.org Click Here for First Round Highlights and Lineup By Alan Sherrod Drooling over each year’s Big…
Review: CBT’s ‘People Where They Are’ – A Lesson in Escaping the Gravity of Our Past
By Alan Sherrod In the spring of 1955, much of the Southern U.S. was a simmering kettle of racial segregation, civil rights repression, and worker/workplace abuses—one that was on the verge of boiling over into a full scale struggle…
Album Re-Issue: Picks & Lighters, ‘TVA/Starvation’
A rusty electric fan was having trouble moving the air around the old hotel room, the intermittent metallic yelps from it strangely easing the throbbing beer-buzz that was settling in on an oppressively hot Mississippi afternoon. The room’s window was…
Review: KSO Opens Its Chamber Classics Series With Layers, Conversation, and Honey
By Alan Sherrod Perhaps it is the unseasonably warm weather that persists—although we’ve survived warm, dry autumns before. Still, things feel a bit different in Knoxville’s classical music scene this fall. First, it was the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s opening…
Review: Three Photographers Revealing Truths – “Science in Motion” at McClung Museum
By Alan Sherrod It’s a simple question today — Does a galloping horse ever have all four of its feet off the ground at the same time? In the 1800s of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, answering that question was anything…
Review: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Aims For The Stars and ‘The Planets’ in Season Opener
By Alan Sherrod In whatever way the musicians of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra spent their summer—playing festivals, traveling, or just chilling—they arrived on the stage of the Tennessee Theatre last evening to begin the 2019-20 Masterworks season visibly energized…
