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: Sensuous and Comic-UT Opera Theatre’s ‘Don Giovanni’

Review: UT Opera Theatre’s production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

KSO This Week: Guest Conductor Steven Jarvi in Works of Dvorak and Elgar

This Thursday and Friday, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be led by guest conductor Steven Jarvi in works by Adam Schoenberg, Antonín Dvořák, and Edward Elgar. Cellist Susie Yang will be the soloist in the Dvořák.

This Weekend: Scruffy City Orchestra and Trillium Piano Trio

This weekend, Friday and Saturday evenings, will see two recent entrants into Knoxville’s classical music scene in performance: the Scruffy City Orchestra and the piano trio, Trillium.

Big Ears Festival Impressions

I felt a rising tide in downtown Knoxville over the weekend. John Luther Adams’ orchestral…

In this week’s Knoxville Mercury: KSO Review ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, read my review of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s concert ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ with guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos and violinist Elena Urioste.

KSO This Week: Pictures at an Exhibition and Barber Violin Concerto

In this week’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts on Thursday and Friday evenings, guest conductor Jacomo Rafael Bairos takes the podium for works from John Adams and Samuel Barber, as well as the Mussorgsky/Ravel ‘Pictures at an Exhibition.’ Violinist Elena Urioste will be the soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto.