By Alan Sherrod It’s a bit ironic that Voltaire’s Candide, a novella that satirizes…
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
Arts & Culture Alliance Announces 9th Year of Penny4Arts
Exposure to the arts in childhood should not be a luxury, for its potential to…
Nief-Norf Summer Festival: Tonight, ‘Hypercube’ – Tomorrow, Marathon Finale
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival for 2018 is now in the finale stage following two weeks…
KSO To Perform at Washington, DC, Kennedy Center During SHIFT Festival 2020
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will find itself in lofty company in 2020. The orchestra was one…
Nief-Norf Summer Festival Performance Schedule
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival is an interdisciplinary summer music festival that attracts contemporary music performers, composers, and scholars to an environment of performance, creation, and discussion. The 2018 nnSF takes place June 11-25 with public performances in the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall of the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center at the University of Tennessee.
Modern Studio Becoming Holler! Performing Arts Center
By Alan Sherrod Update: Holler! Performing Arts Center, the former Modern Studio, has closed…
Market Square ‘Concerts on the Square’ Summer Schedule
It’s rather commonplace to find music and entertainment when you enter Market Square in the…
James Fellenbaum Named Artistic Director/Conductor of Brevard Philharmonic
By Alan Sherrod One of Knoxville’s busiest musicians is about to get just a…
Review: KSO Ends 2017-18 Season With Some Excitement and Risk-Taking
Perhaps it’s the warm weather, or perhaps it’s the seasonal idea of commencement—an ending that’s also a beginning. Whatever the impetus, the final concerts of the season for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra each May always seem to evoke a mix of heart-tugging nostalgia and optimism for what the future may bring. On those final May concerts this past weekend, however, those usual emotions were joined by something new, a curious, but restrained sense of excitement and anticipation similar to what one feels when embarking on an adventure.
KSO This Week: A Feast of American Composers to End the Season
I have to admit that prior to February 2017 my knowledge of Florence Price and her music was that of her name on a list of American women composers. In my shaky defense to never having heard a live performance of her music until then, or even a recording, I can say that I wasn’t totally alone even among those who write about the subject.
