Alan Sherrod

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Drawing from a career background in music, motion pictures, and theatre, Alan Sherrod has been writing about Knoxville's diverse art and music scene since 2007 — first as the classical/new music writer for the alternative weekly Metro Pulse, then later in the same capacity for the Knoxville Mercury. After the closure of Metro Pulse in 2014 by its parent company, Sherrod created ARTS KNOXVILLE to provide a home for Knoxville arts journalism. In August, 2017, he expanded ARTS KNOXVILLE into the site it is today — a site dedicated to continuing the arts journalism legacy of those alternative weeklies. In addition to covering Knoxville's arts scene, he has also contributed music content to the Nashville Scene and other arts and entertainment publications around the U.S, including the website, Classical Journal. Mr. Sherrod was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera — under the auspices of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2019, Sherrod was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

Music

Review: Sensuous and Comic-UT Opera Theatre’s ‘Don Giovanni’

Review: UT Opera Theatre’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Music

KSO This Week: Guest Conductor Steven Jarvi in Works of Dvorak and Elgar

This Thursday and Friday, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be led by guest conductor Steven Jarvi in works by Adam Schoenberg, Antonín Dvořák, and Edward Elgar. Cellist Susie Yang will be the soloist in the Dvořák.

Theatre

Review: Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at CBT

REVIEW: The premiere of Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at the Lab Theatre of Clarence Brown Theatre

Music

This Weekend: Scruffy City Orchestra and Trillium Piano Trio

This weekend, Friday and Saturday evenings, will see two recent entrants into Knoxville’s classical music scene in performance: the Scruffy City Orchestra and the piano trio, Trillium.

Art/Design

Big Ears Festival Impressions

I felt a rising tide in downtown Knoxville over the weekend. John Luther Adams’ orchestral journey Become Ocean, which was performed on Day 1 of the Big Ears Festival by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, describes such a thing—the interaction between…

Music

In this week’s Knoxville Mercury: KSO Review ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, read my review of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s concert ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ with guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos and violinist Elena Urioste.

Music

KSO This Week: Pictures at an Exhibition and Barber Violin Concerto

In this week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts on Thursday and Friday evenings, guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos takes the podium for works from John Adams and Samuel Barber, as well as the Mussorgsky/Ravel ‘Pictures at an Exhibition.’ Violinist Elena Urioste will be the soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto.