Things to Know and See This Week, October 26-31 Marble City Opera Knoxville theatre and opera goers may remember mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock from the 2015 Knoxville Opera production of Carmen, certainly made memorable by Babcock in the title role. This…
Review: Virtuosic Percussion and a Sublime Beethoven Seventh Mark KSO’s “Beethoven and the Art of Rhythm”
By Alan Sherrod While double bass players might argue to the contrary, it is an orchestral fact that percussionists—generally relegated to the back corner of the concert stage and, yet, responsible for a virtually infinite diversity of sounds—receive the…
Review: Nief-Norf’s Knoxville Concert Series – Fresh Ink
By Alan Sherrod The overture for the evening was the random, staccato beat of raindrops on an umbrella, a sound that somehow made for a reassuring counterpoint to the sloshing of footfalls on wet concrete. Coming upon Market Square…
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.
Final Weekend for 2017 nief-norf Summer Festival
The 2017 nief-norf Summer Festival and Sixth International Conference on Music & Minimalism wraps up this weekend.
Composer Jennifer Higdon in Residency at UT School of Music
Composer Jennifer Higdon returns to Knoxville this weekend and next week for a composer-in-residence stint with the University of Tennessee School of Music.
The public is invited and encouraged to attend the concert events listed below. There is no admission charge for any of them.
nief-norf wraps its ‘Summer Festival 2016’ with a marathon concert
As I stepped out of the Jackson Terminal space last evening and into the solstice-eve moonlight of the Old City, everything seemed altered, a bit different. The city looked and felt transformed, as if a layer of haze had been…
NIEF-NORF Summer Festival Performances Begin
Nief-Norf, the contemporary music organization, launched its NIEF-NORF SUMMER FESTIVAL on Tuesday evening with an opening faculty concert at UT Music’s Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall. The evening was a diverse and varied one, with works from David Bethell, Christopher…
nief-norf Summer Festival–June 7-20
The Big Ears Festival has benefited Knoxville in countless ways, some obvious and glaringly important, but many more invisible or understated and, nonetheless, critical to the music scene and the city’s image. One of these benefits has been the exposure and publicity…