BY ALAN SHERROD If you sat back, closed your eyes, and indulged your imagination for just a bit, it was entirely possible that the evening’s music could conjure up a vision of the blue hazy mountains of the Appalachians…
Knoxville Symphony This Week: Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Copland, Jean Sibelius
BY DIANA SALESKY Composer Jennifer Higdon: A Tennessee Treasure Comes Home Composer Jennifer Higdon once remarked that she grew up “a stone’s throw as the crow flies” from Cold Mountain, the setting of her twice Grammy-nominated opera based on…
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.
KSO This Week: Mozart, Richard Strauss, Higdon, and Prokofiev
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts this week feature guest conductor Eckart Preu in works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Higdon, and Richard Strauss. Alon Goldstein will be the pianist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor.