Since its birth in May of 2013, Marble City Opera has been at the cutting edge of Knoxville’s music performance scene. Their inaugural performance, The Face on the Barroom Floor, set the tone for what we have come to expect from an innovative…
KSO This Week: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4, Shostakovich, Berlioz
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Lawrence Loh, guest conductor Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Opus 9 Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra in E-flat Major (Julie Albers, cello) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Opus 36 Thursday and Friday, January 22-23,…
Review: KSO Concertmaster Series Shows Off Its New Friends
This week’s installment of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series of chamber music—Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends—showed off just how important friends are, both onstage and in the audience. One of the works programmed offered the largest ensemble yet for the series—the “Winter” concerto…
Review: KSO’s ‘Orchestra Soloists’ a Delight
Principal bassoon Aaron Apaza and principal trumpet Phillip Chase Hawkins have both been with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for only a couple of seasons, but their presence and effect on the ensemble have already been indisputably positive. On the Sunday…
On Sunday: KSO Performs Strauss’ ‘Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’
Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra–‘Orchestra Soloists’ Stamitz/Holzbogen: Trumpet Concerto in D Mozart: Bassoon Concerto R. Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, 2:30 p.m. Bijou Theatre Tickets start at $15 (Continued from yesterday’s article) Composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von…
On Sunday: KSO Chamber Orchestra Features ‘Orchestra Soloists’
KSO Chamber Classics: Orchestra Soloists Lucas Richman, conductor; Phillip Chase Hawkins, trumpet; Aaron Apaza, bassoon Sunday, January 11, 2015—2:30 p.m. Bijou Theatre, Downtown Knoxville No detective work is required to figure out that 2015 is going to be a year…
Dreaming of Snow?
Dreaming of a white Christmas is apt to be just that these days—dreaming. But since we are dreaming, what better time to take a look at some artists that spent time painting snow. One of my favorites has always been…
A New Weekly For Knoxville: ‘The Knoxville Mercury’
The demise of the newsweekly Metro Pulse at the hands of its parent company, E.W. Scripps, two months ago, was painful for both its staff and its Knoxville readership. For many—and there is actual evidence to support this—Metro Pulse was the…