Music

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.”
― Philip Glass, Words Without Music: A Memoir

Most Memorable Music Performances of 2021

BY ALAN SHERROD   Last year—2020—will forever bear an asterisk in the history books to…

Knoxville Opera Announces Big Changes To Its Artistic Management Team

BY ALAN SHERROD   In what promises to be a significant change to one of…

From 2016: “The Most Famous Reindeer of All”

BY ALAN SHERROD   [This story was originally published in 2016] You know Dasher and…

Review: KSO Journeys Through Color and Emotions in Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, and McKay

BY ALAN SHERROD   The fall Masterworks season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has been…

Fresh Faces in the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra – 2021 Edition

Symphony orchestra rosters are generally very stable, but it is inevitable that both professional ambitions…

Review: The Magic Returns – UT Opera Theatre Delights With Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’

BY ALAN SHERROD   Imagine being a young singer with operatic ambitions, ready to make…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Opera, Theatre, Chamber and Orchestral Music

UT Opera Theatre — Mozart’s The Magic Flute UT Opera Theatre returns to live performances…

New Kids on the Block – The Knoxville Chamber Music Society Offers Its First Concert

BY ALAN SHERROD   Thanks to the remarkable resurgent interest in vinyl LPs, I can…

Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Lily’ – Audrey Babcock Is Spellbinding in One-Woman Show

BY ALAN SHERROD   There are those illusive gems of music and theatre—performances and performers—…

Review: KSO Is ‘Fantastique’; Violinist Paul Huang Exhilarates in Bruch

BY ALAN SHERROD   If there was a word that combined “exhilaration” with “exuberance,” we…

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