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

Big Ears Festival 2020 Lineup Announcement: Eric Dawson Offers A Preview

BIG EARS FESTIVAL 2020 • MARCH 26-29, KNOXVILLE, TN Tickets On Sale Thursday, October 10,…

Album Re-Issue: Picks & Lighters, ‘TVA/Starvation’

A rusty electric fan was having trouble moving the air around the old hotel room,…

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…

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…

On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

By Alan Sherrod University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra Tan Dun: Internet Symphony ‘Eroica’ (conductor: Logan…

Review: A Feast of Bach From the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble and the Cathedral Concert Series

By Alan Sherrod   According to those who keep such records, Baroque composer Johann Sebastian…

Review: The Spoils of War – Marble City Opera Gives U.S. Premiere of ‘City of Ashes’

By Alan Sherrod   Imagine Berlin in the days immediately following the fall of the…

This Week: Marble City Opera Presents U.S. Premiere of ‘City of Ashes’

City of Ashes, a one-act opera by Evan Fein and Emily Anderson, receives its U.S.…

Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘Suor Angelica’ – A Magic Hour in Every Sense

Marble City Opera’s production of ‘Suor Angelica’ has two more performances on Friday and Saturday…

This Week: Marble City Opera Moves Outdoors for Puccini’s ‘Suor Angelica’

By Alan Sherrod   It really was inevitable. Having performed operas of all sizes and…

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