After last weekend’s stellar final Masterworks concert appearance by outgoing concertmaster Gabriel Lefkowitz performing the Brahms Violin Concerto (see the review in the Knoxville Mercury), this week’s final Concertmaster Series events (“Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends”) may have seemed a bit anticlimactic…
Wed/Thurs: KSO Concertmaster Series-A Hot Ticket
If you can only make it to one of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series events this season, you should literally rush and purchase a ticket to this week’s performance at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Review in brief: ‘Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends’ offers a delicious ‘Trout’
Franz Schubert, at his best, gives the listener a feeling of euphoria, an ineffable sensation of joy that falls somewhere between contentment and exhilaration. Schubert’s “Trout Quintet” (Quintet in A Major, D. 667), heard last evening on the Knoxville Symphony…
Hark! January Classical Music!
The Knoxville classical and jazz music scene resumes this week, admittedly a bit slowly at first as if still recovering from New Year’s overindulgence. But then, look out—there are major events in January that surely need to be on your…
This Week: KSO’s Concertmaster Series at the KMA
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster Series of chamber music events, Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends, opens its 4th season this week on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Knoxville Museum of Art. What has made the series so charming are the friendly…
Review: KSO Concertmaster Series Shows Off Its New Friends
This week’s installment of the KSO’s Concertmaster Series of chamber music—Gabriel Lefkowitz and Friends—showed off just how important friends are, both onstage and in the audience. One of the works programmed offered the largest ensemble yet for the series—the “Winter” concerto…