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.

Thurs/Sat: Marble City Opera, ‘Talk to Me Like the Rain’ and ‘Amelia Lost’

By now, everyone has heard about Delingerfest, a series of events surrounding the music of American composer, Larry Delinger. Along with Delinger’s Composer-in-Residence period with the University of Tennessee School of Music this month and next, Marble City Opera, Knoxville’s…

Friday: Delingerfest Begins

American contemporary composers must wage constant battles–battles for recognition, for work, and for performances of their work. Occasionally, though, the planets align for both composer and audience as they are doing with the UT School of Music’s DELINGERFEST, performances and activities…

Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra and ‘Haydn’

In September, the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra opened its 2014-15 season with a concert titled “España!”, an event I previewed briefly in an issue of Metro Pulse. At the time, I received very little information on the concert from…

Recital Report: Los Angeles Piano Quartet

The real beauty of the Guest Artist Series at the University of Tennessee School of Music is that impressive musical experiences are likely to show up at any time. Another beautiful thing? They are all free, but easily worth the price…

A Catharsis and a KSO Review

Wednesday of this week was a gray, dreary, depressing day in Knoxville—and I don’t just mean the weather. The rain from the sky that day was no match for the visible and invisible tears that fell from heavy hearts over the closing…

Welcome to Arts Knoxville: October 2014

Because of the heartbreaking shutdown of Knoxville’s alt-weekly Metro Pulse by its parent company, E.W. Scripps, I will, in the short term, be using this companion blog, Arts Knoxville, as the host for my local classical music coverage. Check back regularly or follow…

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