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

Review: KSO Basks in the Romance and Drama of Ballet – With and Without the Dancers

By Alan Sherrod It was an evening of dance for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…

Sunday, Feb 17: ‘Young Pianist Series’ Continues With Ray Ushikubo

The second of this season’s Young Pianist Series recitalists, the seventeen-year-old Ray Ushikubo, occupies a fairly rare position among young music artists, certainly rare among the recitalists in the YPS series—his solo abilities include both the piano and the violin.
Sunday, February 17, 2019, 2:30 PM
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie Haslam Music Center on the UT Campus

Preview: Breakout Talents Grace Knoxville Opera’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

By Alan Sherrod As harsh as it sounds, the history of music is the…

Saturday Evening: UT Symphony To Offer a Beethoven Fantasy and a Bruckner 7

By Alan Sherrod It isn’t at all uncommon for audiences today to willingly take…

Recital Report: Pianist László Váradi Journeys Through An Afternoon of Liszt

By Alan Sherrod One doesn’t really expect Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’ Sonata to lead off a recital…

Sunday, Jan 27: ‘Young Pianist Series’ Opens 40th Season with László Váradi

The Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series opens its 40th season of recitals with Hungarian pianist László Váradi. This first of three recitals takes place in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center on the University of Tennessee campus on Sunday, January 27, at 2:30 PM.